Welcome to Annecy, the city where it is good to live and work! Annecy, my city and much more ➕ Annecy is a city of 135,000 inhabitants located in the north of the French Alps, capital and prefecture of the Haute-Savoie department, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Ranked 28th City in France, it is nicknamed the "Venice of the Alps" because of the canals which run through the old town. In 2017, the commune of Annecy merged with the communes of Annecy-le-Vieux, Cran-Gevrier, Meythet, Pringy and Seynod, now forming the new commune of Annecy. The city has been classified as the …