The restored Chateau overlooks a park-like south-facing garden with water features and soaring mountain backdrops. It was built as a small chateau with an adjoining chapel in 1676, using massive blocks of local limestone.

The chateau entered Savoy history as the setting of a dramatic tale of love and war during the mid-18th century. Savoy was then an independent duchy, allied with Austria against France and Spain in the War of the Austrian Succession. Its territories on the French side of the Alps were seized and occupied by Spain which sent cavalry units to Samoëns. Their dashing captain, Don Juan Juradoz, braved local hostility to woo and win the hand of a young beauty he saw leaning from the window of the chateau. The couple were married with full Spanish pomp in the village church. But the war ended within the year, and Don Juan rode off with his troops, leaving a pregnant wife who was never to hear from him again. When, years later, her daughter sought her errant father's consent to her own marriage, he was discovered to be the wealthy governor of Cadiz. In a deathbed repentance, he left his entire fortune to the daughter he had never seen, and a baggage train loaded with treasures turned up in Samoëns in 1776. His daughter's husband became the benefactor of the village and later established a college of higher studies in the chateau.