Strategic Position

We have friends staying with us, so, as it was a beautiful warm, clear, sunny day and all the museums were closed, it being Monday, we decided to go to the Chateau de Chillon.
I joke, the weather was terrible, the only advantage was that it made the experience more historically accurate in that we could realise that being a soldier in medieval times could be very damp, cold and unpleasant.....

The chateau is in remarkable condition and, perhaps more importantly, is in a remarkable position.
Sited on a huge rock on the edge of Lake Geneva and opposite a high cliff, it controlled the main route between Italy, France and Northern Europe at a time when the St Bernard pass was the main route accross the Alps.
If you look from its walls to-day, you can see the new Motorway which passes above it and a main railway line which passes below, actually in a cutting.
As they say in the real estate [and robber baron] business, position, position, position.