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Montbenon
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The Esplanade of Montbenon is an area of the city of Lausanne. It is located in the centre of the city, to the south of Flon, the Casino de Montbenon was built in 1908. It hosted the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee from 1915 to 1922, the Casino de Montbenon currently hosts the Swiss Film Archive, assembly halls and a restaurant. The Palais de justice de Montbenon was built between 1881 and 1886 to host the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland, in the 1920s, the Federal Supreme Court moved to the Parc de Mon Repos and the building currently hosts the Tribunal darrondissement de Lausanne. List of cultural property of national significance in Switzerland, Vaud Page on the website of the City of Lausanne
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Lausanne
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Lausanne is a city in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, and the capital and biggest city of the canton of Vaud. The city is situated on the shores of Lake Geneva and it faces the French town of Évian-les-Bains, with the Jura Mountains to its north-west. Lausanne is located 62 kilometres northeast of Geneva, Lausanne has a population of 146,372, making it the fourth largest city in Switzerland, with the entire agglomeration area having 420,000 inhabitants. The metropolitan area of Lausanne-Geneva was over 1.2 million inhabitants in 2000, Lausanne is a focus of international sport, hosting the International Olympic Committee, the Court of Arbitration for Sport and some 55 international sport associations. It lies in a noted wine-growing region, the city has a 28-station metro system, making it the smallest city in the world to have a rapid transit system. Lausanne will host the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics, by the 2nd century AD it was known as vikanor Lousonnensium and in 280 as lacu Lausonio. By 400 it was civitas Lausanna and in 990 it was mentioned as Losanna, after the fall of the Roman Empire, insecurity forced the transfer of Lausanne to its current centre, a hilly site that is easier to defend. The city which emerged from the camp was ruled by the Dukes of Savoy, then it came under Bern from 1536 to 1798 and a number of its cultural treasures, including the hanging tapestries in the Cathedral, were permanently removed. Lausanne has made a number of requests to recover them, after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, Lausanne became a place of refuge for French Huguenots. In 1729 a seminary was opened by Antoine Court and Benjamin Duplan, by 1750 ninety pastors had been sent back to France to work clandestinely, this number would rise to four hundred. Official persecution ended in 1787, a faculty of Protestant theology was established at Montauban in 1808, during the Napoleonic Wars, the citys status changed. In 1803, it became the capital of a newly formed Swiss canton, in 1964 the city hosted the Swiss National Exhibition, displaying its newly found confidence to host major international events. From the 1950s to 1970s a large number of Italians, Spaniards and Portuguese immigrated, settling mostly in the district of Renens. The city has served as a refuge for European artists, while under the care of a psychiatrist at Lausanne, T. S. Eliot composed most of his 1922 poem The Wasteland. Hemingway also visited from Paris with his wife during the 1920s, in fact, many creative people - such as Edward Gibbon, an historian, and Romantic era poets Shelley and Byron - have sojourned, lived, and worked in Lausanne or nearby. The city has been quiet, but in the late 1960s. Later demonstrations took place to protest against the high cinema prices, the most important geographical feature of the area surrounding Lausanne is Lake Geneva. Lausanne boasts a dramatic panorama over the lake and the Alps, in addition to its generally southward-sloping layout, the centre of the city is the site of an ancient river, the Flon, which has been covered since the 19th century
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Switzerland
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Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a federal republic in Europe. It consists of 26 cantons, and the city of Bern is the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in western-Central Europe, and is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland is a country geographically divided between the Alps, the Swiss Plateau and the Jura, spanning an area of 41,285 km2. The establishment of the Old Swiss Confederacy dates to the medieval period, resulting from a series of military successes against Austria. Swiss independence from the Holy Roman Empire was formally recognized in the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. The country has a history of armed neutrality going back to the Reformation, it has not been in a state of war internationally since 1815, nevertheless, it pursues an active foreign policy and is frequently involved in peace-building processes around the world. In addition to being the birthplace of the Red Cross, Switzerland is home to international organisations. On the European level, it is a member of the European Free Trade Association. However, it participates in the Schengen Area and the European Single Market through bilateral treaties, spanning the intersection of Germanic and Romance Europe, Switzerland comprises four main linguistic and cultural regions, German, French, Italian and Romansh. Due to its diversity, Switzerland is known by a variety of native names, Schweiz, Suisse, Svizzera. On coins and stamps, Latin is used instead of the four living languages, Switzerland is one of the most developed countries in the world, with the highest nominal wealth per adult and the eighth-highest per capita gross domestic product according to the IMF. Zürich and Geneva have each been ranked among the top cities in the world in terms of quality of life, with the former ranked second globally, according to Mercer. The English name Switzerland is a compound containing Switzer, a term for the Swiss. The English adjective Swiss is a loan from French Suisse, also in use since the 16th century. The name Switzer is from the Alemannic Schwiizer, in origin an inhabitant of Schwyz and its associated territory, the Swiss began to adopt the name for themselves after the Swabian War of 1499, used alongside the term for Confederates, Eidgenossen, used since the 14th century. The data code for Switzerland, CH, is derived from Latin Confoederatio Helvetica. The toponym Schwyz itself was first attested in 972, as Old High German Suittes, ultimately related to swedan ‘to burn’
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Swiss Posters Collection
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Das Plakat in der Schweiz, mit 376 Kurzbiographien von Plakatgestalterinnen und Plakatgestaltern. 50 years Swiss posters selected by the Federal department of home affairs, genève, Société générale daffichage / Bern, Kümmerly + Frey,1991. Ausgezeichnet vom Eidgenössischen Departement des Innern, genève, Société générale daffichage, 1976–1999 Federal Archives of Switzerland Swiss Film Archive Swiss Posters Collection website The Swiss Posters Collection at the Online Magazine Typetoken
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Le Flon (Lausanne)
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Le Flon is a district of the city of Lausanne, in Switzerland. It is served by Lausanne Metro lines 1 and 2 from Lausanne-Flon station and this area is in the bowl of a valley that has been filled. A river, also named Flon, once flowed through this valley, the area is situated in the central neighborhood of Lausanne. The Flon was once a wooded and uninhabited valley, the Company became the owner of the valley in exchange for supporting all the costs of the work that was planned and which began the following June. Tunnels were dug between Lausanne and Ouchy, and the soil was used to backfill the Flon, downstream of the Grand Pont. This major undertaking lasted until the end of World War II, in the early twentieth century, the Flon had become the main freight station of the city of Lausanne. However, from 1950 the site was connected to the rest of the city that extended around the ancient valley, a period started during which the site deteriorated and some warehouses were transformed into low rent offices. The nightclub MAD opened in the 1980s, in 1991, Line 1 of the Lausanne Metro opened, with its central terminus located at Lausanne-Flon, to give interchange with the Métro Lausanne–Ouchy and LEB commuter trains to Échallens and Bercher. Up until the early 1990s, The Flon was considered a bad area of Lausanne, the Group Lausanne-Ouchy SA decided to start major work in accordance with their Plan partiel daffectation which was divided into two parts. In June 1999 the Municipal Council adopted the Lausanne PPP, the extensive work helped rehabilitate Le Flon, particularly with the opening of a seven-screen cinema complex along with a parking lot, an English pub and a Thai restaurant. Page on the website of the City of Lausanne
