Lausanne - the second largest city of Swiss Riiivier, is a city in which the past smoothly flows into the future, this is a city in which there is everything in the most direct sense of the word. In Lausanne, the spiers of the gothic cathedrals rest in the sky, while the modern metro is furious underground expanses. Here you can study mountaineering and sunbathing on the beach, here you can inspect medieval councils, palaces and museums and tear away in nightclubs. Many will say, and little things, it is in every city, but no, it is in Lausanne that it all gets so harmoniously and coexists that it is just a divorce that the nightclubs and cathedrals, ancient streets and new-fashioned transport are not creating a dissonance.
In the city you should see everything, every corner, every museum and every cathedral. The biggest and most beautiful natural attraction of course is the Lake Geneva, this is the famous Swiss Riviera! The embankment just fascinates - the mountain peaks and a calm water surface of the crystal-pure lake. The most picturesque is usually considered Embankment OUCHY. Here it is very pleasant to walk in the shade of massive chestnuts. At the water itself stands the Cateau d'Ouchy castle, he was built by a bishop in the 12th century.
Unfortunately, today the castle is not a museum, there is a hotel in its room, and it is not even cheaper.
If you get to break away from these landscapes, it is worth seeing architectural and historical sights and perhaps the biggest and most important of them are considered Notre Dame Cathedral which is included in the list of the most beautiful churches of Europe. Its construction began in the 12th century and lasted as much as 100 years. In the building, magnificent stained glass windows, arches, choirs and all elements of the decorations of the Gothic style are preserved, and even it is here that the largest body of Switzerland has 7,000 pipes.
Not far from the cathedral, another church is located, more precisely, the cathedral, which also deserves attention - Church of St. Francis. The church was built in the 13th century as the monastery temple, he experienced a lot of fires, but the external design and architecture did not change.
Bypassing the side is impossible to Rippon's area on which is located Palace Ryumin who was a squeezing nest of Vasily Bestumev-Ryumin and his supega Catherine. Now in the palace, which amazes with its architectural delight, there are several museums - archaeological, geological, zoological and historical, and the library works. From Monday to Friday, the museums and the library are open from 7 am to 10 pm, on Saturday the palace is open to visit from 7 am to 5 pm, and on Sunday from 10 am to 5 pm.
Also worth a visit Saint Marie Castle , which was built in the 15th century and belonged to the bishop. In the building there are a lot of labyrinths and secret moves, thanks to which at the time of the reformation, the last bishop and was able to escape, avoiding death. Now this building serves as a meeting place at the Canton Government meeting. Address: 5, Rue De La Barre.
The next architectural landmark is the Town Hall on the de la Pile Square. Now there is a government commune. Nothing particularly of this building is not, and it was built compared to the rest of the attractions relatively recently, and the inside will most likely fail, because it is still a state-owned institution.
As for museums, they are also plenty of them here. Since it is in Lausanne that a sports arbitration court and Olympic headquarters are located, then it is here that you can visit Olympic Museum . In the museum you can see how the Olympic form changed over the years and how sports evolved. The cups, medals, various documents are stored here ... In general, there are a lot of interesting things.
In the park, the Hermitage is located Art Gallery - The real treasury of world masterpieces. It is worth noting that here it is worth looking only to true connoisseurs of art, people who are interested in and understand painting, as about a thousand canvases of French impressionists and postimigressism are collected here. I will say honestly, I do not understand their work, is not given from nature, so we went on the galleries purely for informational purposes and, as not a connoisseur of such creativity, I did not touch anything, did not hooked, did not impress me, so I even vaguely remember what exactly (what couldes) Wested.
The city is located on so much interesting historical and cultural places that it seems as if everything seems to be bypass everything is simply impossible, they have no beginning and end! To see everything, I can get away the week, if not months.