This walking tour includes the city centre and historical part of Lausanne.
Be guided and discover the charm and history of this beautiful town.

Tours are arranged depending on the amount of time that visitors have and above all on their interests: history, architecture, religious or political buildings, shops and information on local transport etc.

The Cathedral, famous for its medieval rose window, has many other interesting stained glass windows.

Throughout major part of the 20th century, the Cathedral was decorated with forty-seven stained glass windows by six artists, all from the French-speaking part of Switzerland.

• Elegant classic style by Louis Rivier and François de Ribaupierre,
• Baroque style of Alexandre Cingria,
• Realistic rural style of Charles Clement,
• Poetic vision style of Edmond Bille,
• Forceful style of Marcel Poncet.

Ouchy is worth a visit, a tourist attraction not to be missed.
The more so because of its rich history.

What would be Lausanne without Ouchy; with its quays and its parks, the charming beauty of its lake and the paddle-wheel steamers, the splendid view of the Savoy Alps?

Facing the Cathedral, on the opposite side of the Riponne square, the basilica of Notre-Dame is a superb neo-classic building.

The choir has a magnificent fresco by Gino Severini (1883 – 1966), a well-known international Italian artist and futuristic-cubist painter. To see this fresco alone is worth a visit to this church.

Pourquoi la Cathédrale est-elle souvent entourée d'échafaudages ?
Pourquoi la surface des pavés est parfois d'un beau blanc brillant ?

Meurtres et mystères ou presque : les petites histoires qui font la grande Histoire.

Nous vous emmènerons dans les rues en vous racontant quelques histoires concernant divers aspects de l'histoire lausannoise du Moyen Âge au 19^ème siècle.

From the end of the 19th century, the Place Saint-François can be proud to have several buildings of architectural, commercial and financial importance.

An ostentatious style of architecture was chosen to symbolically assert their image.

The church of St Francis is, together with the Cathedral and the chapel of La Maladière, one of the 3 religious buildings in existence prior to the Reformation.

There were Franciscan monks in Lausanne by the end of the 13th century. They built a monastery and a church on a piece of land put at their disposal on the southern limits of the town.

You think that you know all about a town...

The aim of this game is to enable one to have a better idea about the history of Lausanne.

The game works as follows: with the help of pictures one has to find a building, or a piece of architecture, relating to an event in Lausanne's history. This treasure hunt is for adults or families with children, and school classes with students from 15 years old.