Saint-Maurice, Switzerland
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Saint-Maurice is a city in the Swiss canton of Valais and the capital of the district of Saint-Maurice. On 1 January 2013, the former municipality of Mex merged into the municipality of Saint-Maurice.
View of Saint-Maurice with the Dent du Salantin (left) and the Dents du Midi in the background
St. Maurice, the town's namesake, depicted by Matthias Grünewald, 15th century.
Saint Maurice castle and bridge in 1782
The chapel of Notre-Dame-du-Scex was built in the 18th century on the remains of an 8th-century building
Lake Geneva
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Lake Geneva is a deep lake on the north side of the Alps, shared between Switzerland and France. It is one of the largest lakes in Western Europe and the largest on the course of the Rhône. Sixty percent of the lake belongs to Switzerland and forty percent to France.
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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