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Where international sports organisations are so numerous it’s a whole different ball game

Lausanne – Switzerland’s fourth most populated city – is the Olympic capital of the country.

International sport is strong here. Lausanne is home to the International Olympic Committee, the Court of Arbitration for Sport and more than 50 international sport associations. It also hosted the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics.

Unusually for Switzerland, Lausanne is in a noted wine-growing region, near Lavaux and la Côte.

Lausanne is the smallest city in the world to have a tube, with 28 stations covering the city.

Lausanne is built on the southern slope of the Swiss plateau, giving it a dramatic view over the lake and the Alps.

The Lausanne area includes the villages of Vidy, Cour, Ouchy, Mornex, Chailly, La Sallaz, Vennes, Montblesson, Vers-chez-les-Blanc, Montheron and Chalet-à-Gobet.

Several well known international firms are headquartered here, including tobacco company Philip Morris International. The home of the Tetra pack is here – Tetra Laval, a global packaging corporation, has its HQ here. Nespresso, the pod coffee arm of the Nestlé Group, is based in Lausanne and computer peripherals company Logitech has its headquarters in Lausanne.

There are 46 places listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance here, and the entire old city of Lausanne and the Vernand-Dessus region are listed in the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

Historic religious buildings include Notre-Dame Cathedral, Swiss Reformed Church of Saint-François, Swiss Reformed Church of Saint-Laurent and the Synagogue at Avenue de Florimont.

Museums include the Lausanne Museum of History, Bibliothèque des cèdres, Beaulieu Castle and the Collection de l’art brut.

There are also museums covering tapestries and textiles, art, design, a botanical museum and gardens and a Roman museum.

Other museums cover geology, zoology, fine arts and archaeology.

The Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland’s archives are here too.

For entertainment, there are a number of superb groups in Lausanne, including the Orchestre de chambre de Lausanne, the Lausanne Opera and the Ensemble vocal de Lausanne.

Every January, a famous dance competition the Prix de Lausanne, takes place at the Palais de Beaulieu, which is the biggest theatre in Switzerland. The week-long event attracts dancers and big names in dance from all over the world.

The Swiss Film Archive is in Lausanne, making the city a natural home for several festivals celebrating the silver screen. Among the many film festivals is the Festival cinémas d’Afrique and the Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival. There are many modern cinemas here, but enthusiasts may wish to visit the 1920s cinema the Capitole – the biggest cinema in Switzerland with 867 seats. The city also has the biggest theatre in the country. Size isn’t everything though…

The city hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in 1989, after Celine Dion’s victory in Dublin the year before. The contest was held at Palais de Beaulieu, a convention and exhibition centre, which includes the 1,844 seat Théâtre de Beaulieu concert, dance and theatre hall.

In July, the old town hosts the Festival de la cité. Other music festivals include the Bach Festival, the Festival et concours Bach de Lausanne, which follows the Nuit de musées (museums’ night) in the autumn.

Lausanne is also the home of the Béjart Ballet.

The history of Lausanne, Switzerland

Lausannne moved to its current position after the fall of the Roman Empire, as its people were seeking a site that was easier to defend. Its place on a hill made it perfect to see oncoming invaders. The city was then ruled by the Dukes of Savoy and the Bishop of Lausanne before coming under Bern from 1536 to 1798.

The takeover saw several of Lausanne’s treasures removed, including the hanging tapestries in the cathedral. Sadly, Lausanne has never got them back, despite repeated requests.

In 1685, Lausanne became a refuge for French Huguenots. In 1729, a seminary was opened. Their persecution ended in 1787 and the Lausanne seminary was finally closed in 1812.

From the 1950s to 1970s, a large number of Italians, Spaniards and Portuguese people settled in Lausanne, which transformed the food on offer in the city.

The city has long welcomed outsiders and is renowned for offering refuge to artists from all over Europe. The poet T S Eliot composed most of his 1922 work The Waste Land (by the waters of Leman I sat down and wept), while in psychiatric care here. Writer Ernest Hemingway is also said to have holidayed here with his wife in the 1920s and many creatives including historian Edward Gibbon and Romantic era poets Shelley and Byron have spent time in Lausanne.

The city, like much of Switzerland, is peaceful. However, a series of demonstrations were held here in the late 1960s and early 1970s which showed tensions between young people and the police.

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