Saint-Pierre-de-Curtille

Saint-Pierre-de-Curtille is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.

It is situated near the northwestern shore of Lac du Bourget.

It is home to a prehistoric pile-dwelling (or stilt house) settlement that is part of the Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps UNESCO World Heritage Site.

[3] These dwellings, now submerged in the Lac du Bourget, date from the 4th millennium BCE.

[4] The Hautecombe Abbey, situated on the lake shore, has been a classified monument since 1875.