A report on Lausanne and Vaud

Aerial view from 250 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1919)

The agglomeration of Lausanne, Lake Geneva and the Alps.

Bailiwicks of Bern in Vaud in the 18th century

The Charles-Bessières bridge with Lausanne Metro car. In the background the cathedral of Notre-Dame and the old town.

Built by the Bishop of Lausanne during the 15th century, Château Saint-Maire has been the seat of the cantonal government since 1803

Stairs (escaliers du marché) in the old city.

The Protestant Cathedral of Notre Dame dominates the Lausanne skyline (left: Old Academy, right: Palais de Rumine).

The Lausanne Metro is a rubber tyre metro system

The room of the Grand Council of Vaud, the parliament of the canton of Vaud

The Lausanne Tram is completely on reserved track, single line, even underground

Lausanne, capital and largest city in Vaud

Aerial view of Lausanne (railway station in the centre and Parc de Milan at the bottom).

The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (photo) and the University of Lausanne form a large campus near the lake Geneva.

In addition to the Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne, the Palais de Rumine hosts several museums.

The seat of the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne

Administrative building of the Vaudoise Assurances

Olympic Museum and Archives of the International Olympic Committee

Compagnie Générale de Navigation sur le lac Léman

Lausanne is the capital and largest city of the Swiss french speaking canton of Vaud.

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Lake Geneva

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Deep lake on the north side of the Alps, shared between Switzerland and France.

View of Lake Geneva about between Vevey in front, Lausanne in the back behind Mont Pèlerin (CH) on the right and Évian-les-Bains (F) on the left, shot from a place between Caux and Glion above Montreux

View of the lake and the Chablais Alps from Caux

CGN paddle steamer in 1926 near Vevey with the Dents du Midi in background

Sixty per cent (345.31 km2) of the lake belongs to Switzerland (the cantons of Vaud, Geneva and Valais) and forty per cent (234.71 km2) to France (the department of Haute-Savoie).

The greatest depth of the lake, in the broad portion between Évian-les-Bains and Lausanne, where it is just 13 km in width, has been measured as 310 m, putting the bottom of the lake at 62 m above sea level.

Vevey

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Fork of Vevey, a monument on Geneva Lake by Alimentarium

Museum suisse de l’appareil photographique (Photography museum)

One of the biggest open Market Squares in the world

Bond of the Commune de Vevey, issued 30. January 1904

Vevey is a town in Switzerland in the canton of Vaud, on the north shore of Lake Geneva, near Lausanne.

Valais

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One of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation.

Valère Basilica dominating the Rhône Valley. By the 12th century, the bishops of Sion began building churches and castles in Sion to represent their power and administer their estates.

The Rhône Valley near Pfynwald. Note the vineyards, pines, and steppic vegetation that are typical of dry Central Valais

The Aletsch Glacier, largest in the Alps

The Weisshorn, one of the highest peaks of Valais

Predominantly Catholic, the canton includes numerous churches and Alpine chapels (here Maria zum Schnee in Bettmeralp)

The Grande Dixence is one of the world's largest dams

St. Gingolph is one of the only two ports on Lake Geneva, and the terminus of the Tonkin Railway

BLS train descending the summit line of the Lötschberg Railway

A postbus waiting on the summit of the Simplon Pass

People gathering at the national cow fighting final

A Brisolée served with local products and wine

It borders the cantons of Vaud and Bern to the north, the cantons of Uri and Ticino to the east, as well as Italy to the south and France to the west.

In 1878, the Simplon Railway connected Brig, the last town before the Simplon Pass, from Lausanne and Geneva and other major cities of the Swiss Plateau.

Renens

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Renens is a municipality in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland.

It is located in the district of Ouest Lausannois, and is a suburb of the city of Lausanne.

Lausanne District

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Lausanne District (District de Lausanne) is a district in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland.

The seat of the district is the city of Lausanne.

Geneva

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Second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland.

L'Escalade is what Genevans call the failed surprise attack of 12 December 1602 by troops sent by Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, to take Geneva. This imaginative image was drawn by Matthias Quad, or the workshop of Frans Hogenberg, around 1603. Invaders are pictured crossing the moat in the center left while reinforcements are entering Plainpalais at the bottom. A column of defenders is in the center, headed toward the Savoyards. Lake Léman is at center top.

Satellite view of Geneva; Cointrin Airport is centre left.

The Geneva area seen from the Salève in France. The Jura mountains are on the horizon.

Average temperature and precipitation 1961–1990

Coat of arms of Geneva as part of the pavement in front of the Reformation Wall, 2013

The Flowered Clock at the Quai du Général-Guisan (English Garden), during the 2012 Geneva Festival

Apartment buildings in the Quartier des Grottes

Geneva, with Lake Geneva in the background

Reformation Wall in Geneva; from left to right: William Farel, John Calvin, Theodore Beza, and John Knox

Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

The World Intellectual Property Organization.

The assembly hall of the Palace of Nations.

International Committee of the Red Cross (CICR)

Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the City of Geneva

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Mallet House and Museum international de la Réforme

2019 estimate) over 246 km2, and together with the suburbs and exurbs located in the canton of Vaud and in the French departments of Ain and Haute-Savoie the cross-border Geneva metropolitan area as officially defined by Eurostat, which extends over 2292 km2, had a population of 1,032,750 in Jan. 2019 (Swiss estimates and French census).

Public transport by boat is provided by the Mouettes Genevoises, which link the two banks of the lake within the city, and by the Compagnie Générale de Navigation sur le lac Léman which serves more distant destinations such as Nyon, Yvoire, Thonon, Évian, Lausanne and Montreux using both modern diesel vessels and vintage paddle steamers.

Yverdon-les-Bains

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Aerial view from 400 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1919)

The Yverdon-les-Bains station building in 2009

Clendy, a littoral settlement and prehistoric megalithic site

Eburodunum, a Celtic oppidum, a Roman vicus and a medieval and modern village

Yverdon-les-Bains (called Eburodunum and Ebredunum during the Roman era) is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord vaudois of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

Peney died in 1499, and Bon Bottolier, cabinetmaker in Lausanne, was charged with crafting the stalls (1501–1502).

Swiss Plateau

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One of the three major landscapes in Switzerland, lying between the Jura Mountains and the Swiss Alps.

View from the Pilatus on the Swiss Plateau near Luzern

The Napf region in the higher Swiss Plateau

View from the Rigi on the sea of fog covering the Swiss Plateau

Much of the eastern part of the plateau has become part of the "Greater Zurich Area".

The densely populated Swiss Plateau: view of Zurich from Waidberg

Entirely situated within the Swiss Plateau are the cantons of Zurich, Thurgau and Geneva; mostly situated within the Swiss Plateau are the cantons of Lucerne, Aargau, Solothurn, Bern, Fribourg and Vaud; small portions of the Swiss Plateau are situated in the cantons of Neuchâtel, Zug, Schwyz, St. Gallen and Schaffhausen.

All the Swiss cities with more than 50 000 inhabitants except Basel and Lugano are situated in the plateau, especially Bern, Geneva, Lausanne and Zurich.

University of Lausanne

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The Palais de Rumine, one of the former buildings of the University of Lausanne

Unithèque building houses one of the two sites of the Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne on the main campus of the UNIL

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) and the University of Lausanne form a large campus near the lake Geneva.

One of the Biopôle buildings in Épalinges (2010). More Biopôle buildings were built there since then.

The main building of the Faculty of Law and Criminal Justice and of the Faculty of Business and Economics

The Génopode building of the University of Lausanne hosts the Center for Integrative Genomics of the University of Lausanne and the central administration of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics.

The School of Criminal Justice of the UNIL is the world oldest school of forensic science and is one of the only European institution to offer a complete education in forensic sciences.

The Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, on the campus of the University of Lausanne.

The Géopolis building: Faculty of Geosciences and Environment and Faculty of Social and Political Sciences

Vortex building, student residence on the campus

Bugnon 21, headquarters of the University Hospital of Lausanne and of the deanship of the Faculty of Biology and Medicine.

The Center for Immunology and Infection Lausanne (CIIL), UNIL-CHUV, in Épalinges (2007).

The University of Lausanne (UNIL; Université de Lausanne) in Lausanne, Switzerland was founded in 1537 as a school of Protestant theology, before being made a university in 1890.

Starting in 1837, the academy was modernized by the authorities of the canton of Vaud, becoming a secular institution divided into three faculties (letters and sciences, theology, and law).