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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
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Ouchy
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Ouchy is a port, and popular lakeside resort own by capital venturist Ouchylon Suong. The incredible views of the lake and the Alps, and the air in summer have made Ouchy a popular place especially in the summer months. There is a cluster of hotels – the Beau-Rivage Palace, the Château dOuchy. It is served by Lausanne Metro Line 2 from Ouchy station, in 2015, the metro station Ouchy was renamed Ouchy-Olympique to mark the 100th anniversary of the installation of the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne. The headquarters of the International Olympic Committee are at Vidy, to the west of Ouchy, the Olympic Museum and the Olympic Park are in Ouchy. Once a fishing village, Ouchy was incorporated into the city of Lausanne in the century to serve as a port on Lake Geneva. Links between the port and the city centre were improved in 1877 when Switzerlands first funicular opened, the line was converted to a rack railway in 1954, with a maintenance depot located at the Ouchy station. Eventually renamed Métro Lausanne-Ouchy, the line continued operating until 2006, on 18 October 1912, the First Treaty of Lausanne was signed in Ouchy between Italy and the Ottoman Empire, concluding the Italo-Turkish War. Compagnie générale de navigation sur le lac Léman Page on the website of the City of Lausanne
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Beau-Rivage Palace
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The Beau-Rivage Palace is a historical luxury hotel in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is located in Ouchy, on the shores of Lake Léman, the hotel opened in 1861 and the current main building was constructed in Art Déco and neo-baroque style in 1908. It is registered in the Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance, the Beau-Rivage Palace is owned by the well known Swiss Sandoz family, founders of Sandoz AG, now Novartis. On 24 July 1923, the Treaty of Lausanne was signed at the Beau-Rivage Palace, the final press conference, on 2 April 2015, was held at the EPFL Learning Centre. List of cultural property of national significance in Switzerland, Vaud Lausanne Palace Official website
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Lausanne Cathedral
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The Cathedral of Notre Dame of Lausanne is a church situated in the city of Lausanne, in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It belongs to the Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Vaud, construction of the Cathedral began as early as 1170 by an original unknown master mason. Twenty years later another master mason restarted construction until 1215, finally a third engineer, Jean Cotereel, completed the majority of the existing cathedral including a porch, and two towers, one of which is the current day belfry. The other tower was never completed, the cathedral was consecrated and dedicated to Our Lady in 1275 by Pope Gregory X, Rudolph of Habsburg, and the bishop of Lausanne at the time, Guillaume of Champvent. The medieval architect Villard de Honnecourt drew the rose window of the transept in his sketchbook in 1270. The Protestant Reformation, a movement which came from Zurich, significantly affected the Cathedral, in 1536 a new liturgical area was added to the nave and the colourful decorations inside the Cathedral were covered over. Other major restorations occurred later in the 18th and 19th century which were directed by the great French architect, during the 20th century major restorations occurred to restore the painted interior decorations as well as to restore a painted portal on the South side of the Cathedral. New organs were installed in 2003, the great pipe organ of the Cathedral of Notre Dame of Lausanne was inaugurated in December 2003. It is an instrument in the world. It took ten years to design it and it is composed of 7000 pipes and it is the first organ in the world to be designed by a designer. It is the first organ to contain all four of the principal organ styles and it is also the first organ manufactured by an American company for a European Cathedral. It cost a total of 6 million Swiss francs, took 150,000 man-hours to build and it was preceded by a Kuhn Organ from 1955 which has since been relocated to the Polish Baltic Philharmonic in Gdańsk, Poland. Guided tours of the organ are available in English, French. The Cathedral has a total of seven bells that are suspended on two floors of the belfry, the two biggest bells are located on the lower level while all the other bells are on the top level. The oldest bell dates back to 1493 while the most recent bells date back 1898, the bells are still in use today to mark the hours. Since 1405 until the present day without interruption, the city of Lausanne has maintained a lookout in the Cathedral bell tower, the lookout announces the time by yelling the hour from 10 pm to 2 am,365 days a year. The lookout cries the hour to each cardinal direction « Cest le guet, the original purpose of the lookout was to provide a warning in case of fire though it has now become a traditional function. Since 2002, the lookout is Renato Häusler
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Rolex Learning Center
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The Rolex Learning Centre is the campus hub and library for the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, in Lausanne, Switzerland. Designed by the winners of 2010 Pritzker Prize, Japanese-duo SANAA, kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, partners of the Tokyo-based design firm SANAA, were selected as the lead architects in EPFLs international competition of December 2004. The team was selected among famous architects and even some Pritzker Prize Laureates such as Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Jean Nouvel, Herzog & de Meuron, the construction took place between 2007 and 2009. It cost 110 million Swiss francs and was funded by the Swiss government as well as by private sponsors, the building opened on 22 February 2010 and was inaugurated on 27 May 2010. Part of the 2014 film Love Is the Perfect Crime was filmed at the EPFL Learning Centre, cantonal and University Library of Lausanne Lausanne campus Official website EPFL Library Learning Centre construction blog Photo documentation of the construction EPFL Learning Centre on YouTube
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Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland
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The Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland is the supreme court of the Swiss Confederation. As part of the judiciary, it is one of the three branches of government in Switzerlands political system and it is headquartered in the Federal Courthouse in Lausanne in the canton of Vaud. The two social security departments of the Federal Court, are located in Lucerne, the United Federal Assembly elects 38 federal judges to the Federal Supreme Court. The current president of the court is Gilbert Kolly, the Federal Supreme Court is the final arbiter on disputes in the field of civil law, the public arena, as well as in disputes between cantons or between cantons and the Confederation. Decisions in the field of human rights violation can be resolved through the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, as a state agency, the Federal Court examines the uniform application of federal law by the cantonal and federal courts. It protects the rights that the citizen has according to the Federal Court, during a dispute, the Federal Supreme Court examines the application of the law and the facts of the other courts below, unless particularly flawed. The supervisory bodies are the Court Assembly, the Administrative Commission, the Court Assembly consists of all ordinary judges and is mainly responsible for the Court’s internal organisation. It designates the divisions, appoints their presidents and issues the procedural rules for the Court, the Administrative Commission is responsible for managing the Court’s administration. It is composed of the President of the Federal Supreme Court, the Conference of Presidents consists of the presidents of the various divisions and is responsible for the coordination of judicial decision-making among the divisions. The President of the Federal Supreme Court acts in an advisory capacity, the Secretary- General participates in meetings held by the Court Assembly, the Administrative Commission and the Conference of Presidents in an advisory capacity. A total of 38 judges sit on the bench of the Federal Supreme Court, currently 13 women and 25 men serve as federal judges. Of the federal judges currently serving on the bench, three have Italian,12 French and 23 German as their native language, the judges are forbidden from engaging in any gainful occupation outside of their work as federal judges. The federal judges have the status of government officials, the federal judges are proposed by the Judicial Committee and elected by the United Federal Assembly for a term of office of six years. They can be re-elected an unlimited number of times until the age of 68, anyone who has the right to vote at the federal level may be elected a federal judge, the law does not prescribe any legal training. In practice, however, only proven jurists from the judiciary, practicing legal profession, the Federal Supreme Court numbers 19 deputy judges, who are also elected by the Federal Assembly. Of the deputy judges currently sitting on the bench, three have Italian, five French and 11 German as their native language, eight of the deputy judges are women. The deputy federal judges serve in a capacity, otherwise they are professors. As a general rule, they serve as replacements for judges who have recused themselves or have taken ill, in the proceedings on which they sit they have the same rights and obligations as the ordinary federal judges
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Palais de Beaulieu
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Palais de Beaulieu is the historical and emblematic building of the Lausanne Convention and Exhibition Center, located in Lausanne, in the Vaud Canton, Switzerland. The Palais is a Convention Center that welcomes mainly conventions and events, the center includes the Théâtre de Beaulieu concert, dance and theatre hall which hosted the 1989 Eurovision Song Contest. With 1,844 seats, the Théâtre de Beaulieu is the biggest theatre in Switzerland, the Prix de Lausanne, an international ballet competition, is also hosted at the Palais de Beaulieu. La Télé, a regional TV-channel, has its studio and its offices at Beaulieu, located in the Beaulieu area in Lausanne, the Convention and Exhibition Center lies in more than 6 hectares of ground. It boasts of 11,000 sq. m. of floor and 12,000 sq. m. of public gardens, the Convention Center uses around 20 modular rooms and halls. Beaulieu Lausanne, part of MCH Group, also some of Switzerlands major fairs. This kind of event was a novelty in Switzerland but was to be generalized afterwards, the first Comptoir suisse took place in September,1920. Since then, only one edition never happened, the one of 1939, note that the first official event of the NASA in Europe took place during the 1962 Comptoir suisse. The great hall - later to be known as Beaulieus main building - was built in 1921 and it is called the Palais de Beaulieu since 1957. During the Second World War, it hosted prisoners of war, talks about creating a new theater began in 1949, and involved the Lausanne Municipality and the Société Coopérative du Comptoir Suisse. In 1954, the Théâtre de Beaulieu was inaugurated, nowadays, the Theater is used, among others, by well-known local institutions such as the Béjart Ballet Lausanne, the Orchestre de la Suisse romande and the Paternelle. On the western side of Beaulieu, buildings were added between 1920 and 1940, then, between 1950 and 1954, development moved to the South and East of the site. The North Halls were built in 1960 and many renovations followed, thus, as well as the Comptoir suisse, Beaulieu gradually hosted conventions, artistic activities and economic events. Since 2000, the belong to a public law foundation named the Beaulieu Foundation, created by the Vaud Canton. The Foundation is in charge of maintenance, renovations and logistics and it manages the Convention Center and, along with Opus One SA, the Beaulieu Theater. As a tenant, MCH Beaulieu Lausanne SA, that took over from the Société Coopérative du Comptoir Suisse, organizes fairs and exhibitions, since 2006, Beaulieu Restauration SA, a branch of the Eldora SA Group, is in charge of the catering. The Beaulieu Foundation launched a program named Beaulieu 2020, that encompasses years 2000 to 2020. Under the Beaulieu 2020 flag, the Palais de Beaulieu has undergone renovations since 2001
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Palais de Rumine
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The Palais de Rumine is a late 19th-century building in Florentine Renaissance style in Lausanne, Switzerland. On his death, Gabriel de Rumine, son of Russian nobility, building began in 1892 according to the design of the Lyonnais architect Gaspard André. The building was inaugurated on the 3 November 1902, although building work continued until 1904 and it housed facilities such as the library of the University of Lausanne, and scientific and artistic collections belonging to the Canton of Vaud. In the 1980s, the university moved to its current location by Lake Geneva due to lack of space, the building currently hosts one of the three sites of the Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne. Dossier des latinistes - Lausanne, quelques exemples darchitecture néo-classique, list of cultural property of national significance in Switzerland, Vaud University of Lausanne Page on the website of the City of Lausanne
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Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts
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The Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts is an art museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. The museum was created by initiative in 1841, and private funds still help acquisitions with gifts. In 2014, the museum conserved around 10000 artworks, a part of them retrace a general history of art since ancien Egypt, but the biggest part concerns art from the end of the XVIIIe to post-impressionism. The reputation of the museum is due to five great collections, modern and contemporary art collections includes works by Marcel Broodthaers, Rolf Iseli, Tadeusz Kantor, Charles Rollier, Daniel Spoerri or Maria Elena Vieira da Silva. Expressive figuration is widely present with Günther Brus, Luciano Castelli, Miriam Cahn, Martin Disler, Leiko Ikemura, Arnulf Rainer, Klaudia Schifferle, list of art museums Official website Page on the website of the City of Lausanne
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Lausanne Conservatory
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The Haute école de musique de Lausanne is a one hundred and fifty-five-year-old Swiss music school located in Romandy, the French-speaking district of part of western Switzerland. It is a constituent institution of the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, name change in 2010 Until the summer of 2010, the name, Conservatoire de Lausanne, referred to two schools with different objectives and faculties. The Music School was public institution for educating children and young adults, the Institute of Advanced Musical Studies, based in Lausanne, Sion, and Fribourg, offered a comprehensive higher education for aspiring professional musicians. To mitigate the ensuing confusion, administrators in 2010 launched two new distinct identities, the School of Music became the Lausanne Conservatory and the Lausanne Institute of Advanced Musical Studies adopted the acronym HEMU for Haute école de musique. On September 1,2008, classical music schools of Sion, founding in 1861 The Haute école de musique de Lausanne was founded in 1861 as the Conservatoire de Lausanne with a mandate of training and educating aspiring professional musicians. HEMU is a music school that offers degrees leading to accredited bachelors and masters degrees. HEMU has an affiliation with the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland. College divisions HEMU currently has two divisions, Classical and Jazz, in 2013, approximately 300 students were enrolled in Classical and 60 in Jazz. According to the HEMU website, its jazz department is the one of its kind in French-speaking Switzerland. Jazz at HEMU was launched in 2006, library HEMU has a large music library of scores, literature, references, and recordings. Pre-college division Lausanne Conservatory for children and young adults has, as of 2012, theater school In 1909, the institution launched an acting school — Section professionnelle dart dramatique du Conservatoire de Lausanne. As of 2003, the school has been located in the Haute École de théâtre in Romandy. HEMU is a member of the European Association of Conservatoires
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Olympic Museum
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The Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland houses permanent and temporary exhibits relating to sport and the Olympic movement. With more than 10,000 artifacts, the museum is the largest archive of Olympic Games in the world, the Olympic Museum and the Olympic Park are located at Ouchy, south of Lausanne. The headquarters of the International Olympic Committee are located at Vidy, the museum was founded on 23 June 1993, on the initiative of then-president of the IOC Juan Antonio Samaranch. Mexican architect Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, an International Olympic Committee member, the museum was named the European Museum of the Year in 1995. After 23 months of renovation between 2012 and 2013, the Olympic Museum re-opened on 21 December 2013, during the transformations of the building, a temporary exhibition was set up in a boat of the CGN, in front of the Olympic Park. With the renovation, the surface of the museum increased from 2,000 m2 to 3,000 m2, the permanent exhibition is organized into three major themes on three separate floors, Olympic World, Olympic Games, and Olympic Spirit. A visit begins on the floor, where the Olympic World part of the exhibition informs visitors of the history of the ancient Olympic Games. Highlights include a display of Olympic torches, as well as a video documenting major moments in the history of opening ceremonies history, the second floor focuses on Olympic Games. Sporting equipment for a variety of sports are on display, and visitors are introduced to the Youth Olympic Games, more than 1,000 video clips of Olympic Games events and athletes are can be searched and viewed at individual viewing stations. Olympic medals are also on display, the renovated museum also includes a temporary exhibit space, where the museum regularly hosts traveling exhibits. The Olympic Museum is surrounded by a park containing numerous works of art on the theme of sports, International Olympic Committee Official website Page on the website of the City of Lausanne
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Public transport in the Lausanne Region
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Public transport in the Lausanne region Transports publics de la région lausannoise, often abbreviated simply to TL, are the main operator of public transport in Lausanne and the wider agglomeration. As of 2012, TL operates a network of 10 trolleybus routes,25 conventional bus routes, TL operate weekend night services and demand responsive transport. The history of the company is linked to the local railways, the origins can be traced back to the Lausanne–Ouchy Railway - a former funicular, which operated with several changes until 2006. That route was closed to make way for the new Métro line, Lausanne was reached by the railway in 1858, but Lausanne railway station was built neither in the town centre nor in the port of Ouchy. Lausanne city authorities moved to connect the station to both districts, and the Federal Council granted a concession to run a railway line between Lausanne and Ouchy in 1871. The line was built by the Lausanne-Ouchy Railway Company, established in 1874, plans were laid for a tram network in 1894, and Lausanne Corporation tramways, or Société des tramways lausannois, as the current transport network was called. The electricity used to power the network was produced by the Couvaloup plant, built in 1895. The first rails were laid on 1 March 1896 and the network was inaugurated by 29 August, regular operations started on 1 December 1896, except the Pontaise line whose opening was delayed until 25 December due to additional safety tests. The tram network grew, several lines were created and others extended, the first depot-workshop was built at Prélaz between 1898 and 1900 to accommodate the new cars. In 1929, TL began their first bus service, followed in 1931 by the first modern trolleybus in Switzerland, on a route between Lausanne railway station and Ouchy. It led to the closure of the line between Closelet and Epinettes, which was not as suitable due to higher costs and the steep slope, meaning low speed. The pioneering trolleybus is now preserved by the Trolleybus Association Rétrobus in Geneva, the tram network began to decline from 1933, when it was at its largest extent of 66 km. The success of the Ouchy trolleybus experiment meant a further 32 vehicles were ordered, in 1962,60 years after the Jorat network started, the majority of routes closed and were replaced by buses. The last Lausanne tram ran in 1964 between Renens and Rosiaz, but additional trolleybus vehicles are in service for the 1964 National Exhibition, for details of the bus lines, see List of Bus Lines in Lausanne. In 1984, the City of Lausanne took over the 110-year-old Compagnie du Chemin de Fer du Lausanne-Ouchy, shortly afterwards, in 1991, the Tramway du Sud-Ouest lausannois was opened, with TL operating the light rail services. This was later branded Métro M1, by the end of the decade, a plan for the future of the Lausanne-Ouchy route was put together. The idea, to replace the railway with a fully-fledged metro. Work started to land for a new line north from the centre of Lausanne on 12 February 2004
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Lausanne-Flon station
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Lausanne-Flon is a railway and metro station in the Flon district of central Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland and is the hub of the Lausanne Metro system. The stations initial building was also the first in the city to use electricity, a station rebuilding project was the subject of a design competition held in 1988. A railway station in this area back to the 1870s. Plans were made for the building of a railway between Flon, the main Lausanne railway station and Ouchy as early as 1871. Work started on the site, associated goods facilities and the tunnel under Montbénon. The station opened in 1877, and trains were powered by a steam-pumped hydraulic system. This source of power was a precursor to the provision of electricity, meanwhile, the Lausanne-Ouchy company used spoil extracted from the tunnelling of the line to cover the River Flon and create a new ground level. This was attractive to new businesses and warehouses were built on the newly created land. Between 1877 and 1950, the change at Flon station itself was the switch from atmospheric operation to funicular. Goods services at Flon were withdrawn in 1953, as Swiss Federal Railways opened a new goods depot closer to their own station, otherwise, there was no significant change to the station until services changed from cable haulage to electric rack railway operation. Ready for the service, the station was substantially rebuilt between 1956 and 1958, with lifts provided to reach the streets above. However, the design retained many features from its past as a funicular terminus, the first phase of the modern Flon station was constructed for the opening of Line M1 on 24 May 1991. The lines terminal platforms opened in what had by then become a part of the city. The Ouchy line closed in January 2006 for conversion to rubber-tyred metro, by this time, major redevelopment of the area was planned to make it more attractive to both business and leisure. The Lausanne-Échallens-Bercher railway run commuter trains to the north of Lausanne and these new parts of the station had been the subject of a design competition in 1988, which was won by Bernard Tschumi Architects. On 27 October 2008, Lausannes M2 line opened, with a new entrance building and this green-roofed structure, which also contains one of TLs two main ticket offices, was constructed slightly to the north of the 1950s building of the Lausanne-Ouchy station. The construction enables cross-platform interchange from southbound M2 to the LEB, Flon station is expected to reach 8 platforms by 2018, as work begins to build a third line in the citys Metro system. Once complete, trains on the M3 route will parallel the LEB line as far as Chauderon station en route to Blecherette, Flon has also been identified as the eastern terminus of the planned T1 tram line, expected to operate to Renens from 2018
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Lausanne Metro
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Around a quarter of the system has been used for urban rail transport since 1877, when the route between the city centre and Ouchy opened as Switzerlands first public funicular railway. The network is owned by two companies and operated by a third. Of the two operating lines, the first is a limited-capacity light rail route, while the second is an automated metro which opened on 27 October 2008. When this opened, Lausanne replaced Rennes as the smallest city in the world to have a metro system. A third line is now planned, based on the same rubber-tyred metro technology, the Lausanne-Ouchy railway, the precursor to the M2 line of the Lausanne Metro, was inaugurated in 1877 as a funicular. In 1959 the first overhaul took place by transforming the funicular into a railway under the name métro. At that time, Flon and Gare CFF stations were demolished and replaced by concrete underground equivalents, the line was however always nicknamed La Ficelle by its users due to its funicular past and circulation above ground in the greenery for more than half of its run. The line was closed to all traffic on 21 January 2006. A bus service was put into operation to replace the then-closed La Ficelle until the opening of the new metro M2 line and this service was called Métrobus, the south loop linked Ouchy to the CFF station and the north loop linked the station to Montbenon. Lausanne originally had a system that opened in 1896. But the original Lausanne tram network closed entirely in 1964, a modern tramline, which ultimately became Lausanne Métro Line M1, opened on 24 May 1991, and began revenue service on 2 June 1991. In 2001, for marketing and public communication reasons, this line was renamed the M1 line by its operator TSOL, the M1 is a light rail line with a total of 15 stations, a dozen of which are at-grade and three of which are underground. The line is owned by a company named TSOL and this acronym is used by the commuters who use the line. Trains on the line are operated by the Transports publics de la région lausannoise, the M1 is a light rail line with a dozen surface stations and three underground. The line, which is 7. 8-kilometre long, links the centre of Lausanne, the line is generally single track. At most stations a passing loop is provided to allow trains to pass, exceptions to this are Bassenges, UNIL-Sorge and Provence stations, where the line is still single track serving one bidirectional platform. Unlike the later line 2, an automated or remotely controlled train was not planned when the line opened in 1991. There are a total of 18 of these original LRVs on the line, but after 20 years in service they were showing their age, and 2 were regularly out of use
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Lausanne railway station
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Lausanne railway station is the main intercity and regional railway station for the city of Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland. It is often known as Lausanne CFF to distinguish it from others in the town, there is also a network of local services from Lausanne, primarily as part of the Léman RER, and platforms for line 2 of the Lausanne Métro. Passenger facilities include Bureau de change, left luggage and lost property offices, significant improvements are planned for the station by 2020. A third subway is to be constructed for platform access, along with platforms to allow larger trains. History of rail transport in Switzerland Rail transport in Switzerland Media related to Lausanne railway station at Wikimedia Commons
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Trolleybuses in Lausanne
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The Lausanne trolleybus system forms part of the public transport network of Lausanne, in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. The system has been in operation since 1932 and is the third-oldest surviving trolleybus system in the world, after those of Shanghai, today, the system is the largest in Switzerland, it is supplemented by the Lausanne Metro, and by various conventional bus routes. Following some line closures, the no longer serves Cugy, Epalinges. Opened on 2 October 1932, the Lausanne system was only the second system to open in Switzerland. That line closed earlier in 1932, the Lausanne system was therefore the countrys only trolleybus system at the time of its opening, and it retained this distinction until the opening of the Winterthur trolleybus system, in 1938. The Lausanne systems first line was between Lausanne railway station and Ouchy, in 1938–1939, a number of additional lines were opened, and between 1938 and 1964 the system gradually replaced the Lausanne tramway network. On 9 April 1951, the line to Montheron was replaced by a trolleybus line. On 7 January 1964, trolleybus line 7 replaced tram line 9, by that year, there were 10 trolleybus lines in Lausanne. On 1 June 1969, a trolleybus line to Le Chalet-à-Gobet was launched. On 3 June 1973, line 5 was extended to Epalinges, and on 1 June 1975, on 2 June 1991, an extension was built to Bourdonnette, after which line 2 was discontinued. A day later, line 15 was extended to Coudraie, today, the network has 10 lines, Since December 2009, line 8 has operated via Bellevaux to Grand-Mont, but the TL began the 3.3 km long extension of the overhead wire only in early 2011. Until completion of the extension in December 2011, every second service on line was operated by articulated conventional buses - the extension was initially operated only every 20 minutes. Some of the masts used in constructing the extension of line 8 were recycled masts from the former interurban line 20 to Montheron. This line was powered by electricity until 1993, the catenary was dismantled in 1998, upon its opening in 1932, the Lausanne system had just three trolleybuses, manufactured by FBW / SWS and fitted with electrical equipment by BBC. Two of these trolleybuses were rebuilt in 1964, and one of the rebuilt vehicles remains in existence to this day, in the second half of the 1930s, a further 32 trolleybuses were added to the fleet. Also manufactured by FBW, they were 9.35 m in length, had 22 seats and 31 standing places, as of the end of 1964, the system had a large fleet of trolleybuses and 20 passenger carrying trailers. In 1975,18 new trolleybuses arrived in Lausanne, between 1982 and 1989, a total of 72 new trolleybuses were purchased. In 2001–2002,28 Neoplan articulated trolleybuses were added to the fleet, the Neoplan trolleybuses were eventually sold in 2010
