Aubonne is a municipality in the district of Morges in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. In 2011 the former municipality of Pizy merged into Aubonne and on 1 January 2021 Montherod merged into it.
Aubonne
Church and castle with its minaret-style tower, built 1680 for Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, at Aubonne
A view of Aubonne
A view over Aubonne
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605–1689) was a 17th-century French gem merchant and traveler. Tavernier, a private individual and merchant traveling at his own expense, covered, by his own account, 60,000 leagues in making six voyages to Persia and India between the years 1630 and 1668. In 1675, Tavernier, at the behest of his patron Louis XIV, published Les Six Voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier.
Jean-Baptiste Tavernier in oriental costume, 1679
An illustration of Tavernier's of Indians performing Yoga under a Banyan tree
Church and castle with its minaret-style tower, built in 1680 for Tavernier, at Aubonne, Switzerland
Tavernier's original sketch of the Tavernier Blue diamond