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Lausanne City Guide Castle St-Maire, former seat of the bishops of Lausanne

Sightseeing / Landmarks

Lausanne - Olympic Capital

Villa Mon Repos seat of the International Olympic Committee

Olympic Museum

Medieval Cathedral

Cathedral Notre-Dame (1275)

Cathedral Notre-Dame: nave

Swiss Federal Court of Justice

Modern Architecture

Genevoise building, Place Bel Air

Vaudoise building by Jean Tschumi, 1959-61

Concerts

• Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
  (Lausanne/Geneva)

Theatre / Opera

• Opera Lausanne

Museums

Local History

• A prehistoric village preceeded the Roman city of Lousanna

• In 590 bishop Marius (St-Maire) of Aventicum, the old Swiss capital in the age of the Romans, moves to Lausanne. The bishops rule the medieval city.

• The dukes of Savoy gain influence and dominate the Lake Geneva region from the 13th century on.

• Guillaume Farel and Pierre Viret preach the reformation of the church from 1530 on. When Bern conquers the northern shore of Lake Geneva in 1536, the bishops have to move to Fribourg.

• From 1536 to 1798 Vaud and Lausanne are under the rule of Bern.

• Vaud and its capital Lausanne play a major rôle in the Swiss Revolution of 1798 and Helvetic Republic.

• In 1803 the revolutionary centralist model comes to an end, Switzerland returnes to federal structures. Canton Vaud becomes a member state with full and equal rights in the Swiss Confederation and Lausanne its capital.

• When Baron Pierre de Coubertin reintroduces the Olympic Games, Lausanne becomes the seat of the International Olympic Committee.

• See also: general Swiss history

Famous People

Jean Abraham Daniel Davel 1670 - 1723, major made an unsuccessful insurrection against Bern

Benjamin Constant born: 1767-10-25 Lausanne died: 1830 Paris liberal philosopher, writer, politician

Dr. Alexandre Yersin 1863 - 1943, physician discovered the pestilence bacillus in 1894 developped a serum against it in 1896

Excursions

• Chillon Castle (Montreux)

Lausanne Tourist Office

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