Chillon Castle was built on a rocky inlet near the eastern shore of Lake Geneva. (Lac Lemon), Switzarland, not far from Montreux. There was a castle here as early as the ninth century, built to protect one of the main roads to the Great St. Bernard pass to Italy, but the present castle was for the most part built by the counts of Savoy in the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries. During the sixteenth century, the castle was used as a state prison and was the setting of the English poet Byron's The Prisoner of Chillon
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