The history of Swiss villages, one village at a time.

A collaborative, fact-checked encyclopedia of the origins, legends and remains of Swiss villages.

Documented villages

Aclens

Farming village on a plateau overlooking the right bank of the Venoge, once the centre of a small lordship bought by the town of Morges in 1675.

Agiez

Farming and wine-growing village above the Orbe gorges, former land of the Romainmôtier priory, known for its dressed-stone quarries and the Thomasset family's château.

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Market town in the Vaud Chablais with liberties since 1314, the first French-speaking territory conquered by Bern in 1475, whose castle rises above the vineyards and houses the Museum of Vine and Wine.

Allaman

A wine-growing village on Lake Geneva, on the right bank of the Aubonne, overlooked by a castle that controlled the crossing of the river.

Apples

Given by a king of Burgundy to the abbey of Romainmôtier in 1011, this village at the foot of the Vaud Jura became, almost a thousand years later, the birthplace of Logitech.

Aran

Wine-growing village of Lavaux, former main village of the municipality of Villette, in the municipality of Bourg-en-Lavaux.

Areuse

Small locality on the Areuse river between Colombier and Boudry, a former municipality merged into Boudry in 1870.

Arnex-sur-Nyon

Small farming village near Nyon, mentioned in 1154, a Savoyard fief and later a lordship sold in 1763 to the Genevan banker Antoine Saladin.

Arnex-sur-Orbe

Wine-growing village at the foot of the Jura, given to the Romainmôtier priory in 1049, with its church of Saint-Martin and the castle of the Bernese bailiffs.

Arrissoules

A former agricultural estate born of medieval clearance, today a quiet hamlet of the municipality of Rovray on the heights above lac de Neuchâtel.

Arveyes

Mountain hamlet of the municipality of Ollon, a community attested in 1301 and a former dizain, next to the resort of Villars.

Arzier-Le Muids

Jura municipality made up of the villages of Arzier and Le Muids, born of the liberties granted in 1304 by the Oujon charterhouse, the oldest in Switzerland.

Assens

Former village and former commune of the Gros-de-Vaud, known for its shared (simultaneum) church, unique of its kind in the canton, and for the Early Iron Age Celtic burial mound found on its territory; its inhabitants are nicknamed "les Besaces" (lè Besatse), a reference to the wealth of this wheat-growing region.

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Aubonne

Former district capital nestled at the foot of the Vaud Jura, around a castle that saw the passage of counts of Savoy, counts of Gruyère, and a gem merchant returned from the East.

Auvernier

Village of winegrowers and fishermen on Lake Neuchâtel, recorded since 1011, whose pile dwellings are among the richest in Switzerland; a locality of Milvignes since 2013.

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Avenches

Former capital of the Helvetii in Roman times, Aventicum, whose walls of more than 5 km and amphitheatre survive, crowned by a small medieval town built by the bishops of Lausanne.

Ballaigues

Border village on the slopes of the Suchet, on the old Jougne road, known for its rutted road, its spell as a health resort and its precision industries.

Ballens

Born around a chapel in the Vaud Jura, this farming village has remained faithful, over the centuries, to its municipal independence

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Barrage du Châtelot

Franco-Swiss arch dam 74 m high on the Doubs, commissioned in 1953, on the territory of the municipality of Les Planchettes, the largest in the Doubs valley.

Bassins

Large village at the foot of the Jura above Nyon, which grew up around a Cluniac priory whose church of Notre-Dame survives, and long one of the richest communes in the canton thanks to its forests and alpine pastures.

Baulmes

Village at the foot of the Aiguilles de Baulmes, on the alluvial fan of the Baumine, inhabited since the end of the Ice Age and shaped by an old monastery that became a Cluniac priory.

Bavois

Farming and wine-growing village between the Orbe plain and the hillsides, formerly the seat of a lordship of the lords of Joux, whose two castles appear on its coat of arms.

Bayerel

Locality of the municipality of Val-de-Ruz on the Seyon, between Engollon and Saules, known for its mill attested from 1416 and listed as a cultural property of national importance.

Begnins

Wine-growing village of La Côte mentioned from 1145, whose southern edge is lined with castles and manor houses.

Bellerive

A former wine-growing village of the Vaud Vully, between Lake Neuchâtel and Lake Morat, today one of the ten villages of the municipality of Vully-les-Lacs.

Belmont-sur-Lausanne

Village perched on a promontory overlooking Lake Geneva and the Paudèze valley, a former property of the Lausanne chapter that has become a residential municipality east of Lausanne.

Belmont-sur-Yverdon

Village perched above the Orbe plain, heir to the castle and fortified town of the important lordship of Belmont, held by the lords of Grandson.

Bénex

A former hamlet of Gallo-Roman origin that became a mere place name after being merged, in the 16th century, into the present-day municipality of Prangins.

Bercher

Former fortified small town and seat of a lordship, later a barony, above the Menthue valley; terminus of the LEB railway since 1889.

Berolle

Born of a medieval lordship linked to Romainmôtier priory, this Vaud village at the foot of the Jura had, surprisingly for such a small place, the financier Jacques Necker as its last lord.

Bettens

Gros-de-Vaud village east of the Venoge, once the fief of a noble family of the same name, with an 18th-century castle.

Bevaix

Village on the north shore of Lake Neuchâtel that grew up around a Cluniac priory founded in 998, amid many prehistoric lakeside settlements.

Bex

Market town of the Vaud Chablais at the foot of the Alps, stretching from the banks of the Rhône to the Diablerets, known for its salt mines worked since the late 17th century.

Bière

Shaped by a medieval priory and a changing seigneury, this Vaud village at the foot of the Jura has been home to a federal army training ground for two centuries.

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Bioley

Wooded place name in the municipality of Begnins, on the border with Burtigny, where the castle of Bioley stood in the 13th century.

Bioley-Magnoux

Street village on a plateau overlooking the Mentue, on the border between the Gros-de-Vaud and northern Vaud, known for its medieval castle where Charles the Bold is said to have stayed.

Bioley-Orjulaz

Former farming village in the Gros-de-Vaud, born from a medieval monastic barn, which became a Vaud commune before merging with Assens in 2021.

Blonay

A village of the Vaud Riviera overlooking Vevey and Lake Léman, known for its medieval castle still inhabited by the de Blonay family and for the small Pléiades rack railway.

Bofflens

Small farming village at the foot of the Jura, between the Orbe plain and Romainmôtier, whose priory owned the whole territory from 1011.

Bogis-Bossey

Municipality on the left bank of the Versoix, a former grange of Bonmont Abbey, whose Château de Bossey, built in 1722 by the Turrettini, has housed the Ecumenical Institute since 1946.

Bôle

Hillside street village on the line of the old Roman road Vy d'Etraz, recorded since 1346, which has turned from a farming village into a residential one; a locality of Milvignes since 2013.

Bonvillars

Wine-growing village at the foot of Mont Aubert above Lake Neuchâtel, attested around 1100, cradle of a noble family and of a Vaud wine appellation, known for its menhir.

Borex

Village at the foot of the Jura near the French border, mentioned around 1213, crossed by the Roman aqueduct that carried the waters of Divonne to Nyon.

Bottens

Gros-de-Vaud village that remained partly Catholic after the Reformation, with an old sanctuary from the 12th century and a Gothic Revival church of 1843.

Boudevilliers

A farming village in the Val-de-Ruz, long a count's mairie enclosed within the lordship of Valangin, on the Vue-des-Alpes road.

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Boudry

Small town on the Neuchâtel lakeshore, a chartered borough of 1343 at the foot of its castle, which controlled the Yverdon-Neuchâtel road where it crossed the Areuse.

Bougy-Villars

Wine-growing village of La Côte above Rolle and Aubonne, overlooked by the Signal de Bougy and its leisure park.

Boulens

Small farming village in the Gros-de-Vaud, a former possession of Montheron Abbey that passed to the City of Lausanne at the Reformation.

Bournens

Gros-de-Vaud village near the motorway interchange, which preserves the remains of a rural priory of the Great St Bernard and a castle.

Boussens

Village in the south of the Gros-de-Vaud, a former lordship of the de Saussure family whose 17th-century castle survives, which has grown strongly since the 1980s.

Boveresse

Crossroads village of the Val-de-Travers, long tied to Môtiers and known for growing absinthe plants, today in the municipality of Val-de-Travers (merger of 1 January 2009).

Bremblens

Farming and wine-growing village between the Venoge and the Morges, with a 13th-century church, which has stayed rural despite the growth of western Lausanne.

Brenles

Former farming village of the Vaud Broye, on the border of the canton of Fribourg, known for its 18th-century chapel and for the Suisse Romande school for guide dogs for the blind located there, incorporated into the municipality of Lucens since 2017.

Brent

Village above Montreux, formerly part of the municipality of Le Châtelard, known for its fair authorised in December 1486 and still held every autumn.

Bressonnaz

Hamlet of the municipality of Syens, south of Moudon on the Broye, known for its three-arched Bernese bridge and its former mills.

Bretigny

Hamlet on the south bank of the Talent, with a Catholic tradition, in the municipality of Saint-Barthélemy, in the Gros-de-Vaud.

Bretigny-sur-Morrens

Small village in the Gros-de-Vaud north of Lausanne, mentioned from 1224, long attached to the jurisdiction of Lausanne and now a residential municipality of the Lausanne conurbation.

Bretonnières

Farming village at the foot of the Jura, former land of the convent of Romainmôtier, whose church with Romanesque parts is topped by an onion-domed bell tower.

Brot-Dessous

Former municipality in the Areuse gorges, between the river and the Solmont range, cited from 998 and today in the municipality of Rochefort (merger of 1 January 2016).

Brot-Plamboz

Rural municipality in the Neuchâtel Mountains, formed in 1888 by the union of Brot-Dessus and Plamboz, on the old salt and wine road.

Buchillon

A village of farmers, winegrowers and fishermen on Lake Geneva, near the Aubonne delta, heir to the medieval parish of Chanivaz and a large Roman villa.

Bugnaux

Wine-growing hamlet of the municipality of Essertines-sur-Rolle, between the La Côte vineyards and the forests, rich in manor houses and listed in the ISOS as a site of national importance.

Bullet

Mountain village of the Vaud Jura at the foot of the Chasseron, destroyed by fire in 1744, which became a holiday resort with the Les Rasses plateau around the turn of the 20th century.

Bursinel

Wine-growing street village of La Côte, set on a gentle rise facing Lake Geneva, with its castle of the Sacconay and Watteville families.

Bursins

Wine-growing village of La Côte, clustered around the 11th-century church of Saint-Martin and its former Cluniac priory attached to Romainmôtier.

Burtigny

Street village at the foot of the Jura on the road to the Col du Marchairuz, with a church of Saint-Pierre of Romanesque origin and the remains of Bioley Castle, a medieval fortress abandoned in the 14th century.

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Bussigny

Village on the Venoge that became a town thanks to the railway junction created in 1855-1856 between Lausanne, Morges and Yverdon.

Bussigny-sur-Oron

Small agricultural village in the Vaud Prealps, a former municipality of the seigneury of Oron, whose inhabitants are nicknamed «les cabris» (the kid goats)

Bussy-Chardonney

A village born twice from the merger of Bussy-sur-Morges and Chardonney, today a hamlet of the very young municipality of Hautemorges.

Bussy-sur-Moudon

Small village in the Vaud Broye, between the Broye and Mentue valleys, once crossed by the Roman road from Moudon to Yverdon.

Buttes

Village at the head of the Val-de-Travers, a former staging post on the Vy Saulnier and a nursery of masons and carpenters, now part of the municipality of Val-de-Travers (merger of 1 January 2009).

Carrouge

Former street-village of the Jorat, born at the crossing of two historic roads, today a locality of the municipality of Jorat-Mézières

Caux

Mountain village in the municipality of Montreux, a former pasture that became a luxury hotel resort in the Belle Époque, with the Grand-Hôtel and the Caux-Palace.

Cerniaz

On the right bank of the Broye, a village that remained agricultural until its merger into Valbroye.

Cernier

Former county seat of the district of Val-de-Ruz, today the administrative heart of the municipality of Val-de-Ruz, in the canton of Neuchâtel.

Chabrey

Former wine-growing village on the shore of Lake Neuchâtel, in the Vaud Vully region, today part of the municipality of Vully-les-Lacs.

Chailly-Montreux

Village above Clarens, in the municipality of Montreux, a former metralie of Le Châtelard with a fortified house mentioned in the 13th century and a former stopping place.

Chamblon

Village perched on a red limestone hill overlooking the Orbe plain, once surrounded by the lake, with the castle built in 1762 by Baron von Brackel.

Chambrelien

Hamlet in the municipality of Rochefort, known for its station where trains on the Neuchâtel-La Chaux-de-Fonds line reverse direction, now a residential area.

Chamby

Locality in the upper part of the municipality of Montreux, served by the Montreux-Bernese Oberland railway and terminus of the Blonay-Chamby museum railway since 1968.

Champ-du-Moulin

Hamlet in the Areuse gorges split between the municipality of Boudry (Champ-du-Moulin-Dessous) and the municipality of Rochefort (Champ-du-Moulin-Dessus), where Jean-Jacques Rousseau stayed in 1764.

Champagne

Wine-growing and industrial village in northern Vaud, between Lake Neuchâtel and the Jura, mentioned as early as 885 and known for having had to give up its name on its wines.

Champmartin

A small street-village on the shore of lac de Neuchâtel, united with Cudrefin since 2002 after more than six centuries of its own history.

Champtauroz

Small farming village in the Vaud Broye, on the Lucens-Yvonand road, once a possession of the priory of Lutry.

Champvent

Farming village at the foot of the Jura, above the Orbe plain, dominated by a four-towered castle built in the 13th century by a branch of the lords of Grandson.

Chanéaz

Former agricultural village of the Jorat plateau, attested since 1184, today one of the nine villages of the municipality of Montanaire.

Chanivaz

A former medieval parish and the site of a large Roman villa, Chanivaz is today a protected farming estate in the Aubonne delta, within the municipality of Buchillon.

Chapelle-sur-Moudon

Former village of the Vaud Plateau near Moudon, known for its Gothic church with a preserved medieval stained-glass window, today attached to the municipality of Montanaire.

Chardonne

Wine-growing municipality of the Vaud Riviera stretching from the shores of Lake Geneva up to Mont-Pèlerin, a former possession of the Abbey of Saint-Maurice.

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Château de Rochefort

Ruins of a medieval castle on a height at the entrance to the Val-de-Travers, in the municipality of Rochefort, the only castle ruin in the canton of Neuchâtel.

Château-d'Œx

Largest commune in the canton of Vaud, main village of the upper Sarine valley in the heart of the Pays-d'Enhaut, between cheese-making tradition and tourism.

Châtel (Essertines-sur-Rolle)

Hamlet of the municipality of Essertines-sur-Rolle, below which stood Mont-le-Vieux castle, destroyed in 1475.

Châtillens

Former agricultural and mining village of the Vaud Broye, merged into the municipality of Oron in 2012.

Chaumont

Wooded mountain above Neuchâtel, a summer resort that became a permanent community in the 19th century, linked to the town by funicular since 1910.

Chavannes-de-Bogis

Former clearing opened up by Bonmont Abbey on the Franco-Swiss border, which became an employment hub of Terre Sainte after the motorway opened.

Chavannes-des-Bois

Last Vaud village before the Geneva border, on the Versoix, formerly a small farming community of the lordship of Coppet, and home to the dome of the Geneva Observatory.

Chavannes-le-Chêne

Small village in northern Vaud, former centre of the lordship of Saint-Martin-du-Chêne, next to the Vallon des Vaux, inhabited since the Neolithic.

Chavannes-le-Veyron

Small farming village on a plateau overlooking the Veyron valley, a former small lordship known for its water-powered sawmill.

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Chavannes-près-Renens

Small village west of Lausanne that became a town in the 20th century with the railway, the motorway and the arrival of the University of Lausanne.

Chavannes-sur-Moudon

Farming village on the right bank of the Broye, on the Fribourg border, whose entire built fabric is listed in the ISOS inventory.

Chavornay

Large village on the Orbe plain, property of the kings of Burgundy in the 9th century, now an industrial and railway hub of northern Vaud.

Chenaux

Wine-growing hamlet of Lavaux above Cully, in the municipality of Bourg-en-Lavaux.

Chêne-Pâquier

Municipality made up of the two villages of Chêne and Pâquier, once part of the lordship of Saint-Martin-du-Chêne, known for its oval church of 1667.

Chernex

Village above Montreux, in the municipality of Montreux, whose inhabitants have been nicknamed « les Lanternes », it is said, since the great fire of 1814.

Chesalles-sur-Moudon

A farming hamlet in the district of Broye-Vully, one of whose sons became a dignitary at the court of the Grand Mughal in the 18th century.

Chesalles-sur-Oron

Former village in the district of Lavaux-Oron, occupied since the Bronze Age, equipped in the Middle Ages with a fortified house enfeoffed by the bishop of Lausanne, which became an independent municipality in 1812 before merging into the municipality of Oron in 2012.

Chesard

Hamlet on the heights east of the village of Grandcour, in the municipality of Grandcour.

Cheseaux-Noréaz

Municipality on the eastern shore of Lake Neuchâtel formed in 1798 by the union of the hamlets of Cheseaux and Noréaz, with the Château de Champ-Pittet and its protected marshes, now a residential district of Yverdon-les-Bains.

Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne

Former street village of the Gros-de-Vaud, built on the remains of a Roman settlement, where the astronomer Jean-Philippe Loys de Cheseaux set up his observatory in 1736.

Chéserex

Village at the foot of the Jura, below the Dôle, on whose territory stands the former Cistercian abbey of Bonmont.

Chesières

Former mountain hamlet of the municipality of Ollon, attested in 1290, which forms the resort of Villars-Chesières together with Villars.

Chessel

Small village in the Rhône plain, on the right bank of the river, known for its Romanesque church of Saint-Nicolas.

Chevilly

Farming village at the foot of the Jura, between the Venoge and the Veyron, former lordship of the Gingins family and home village of the painter Charles Gleyre.

Chevroux

Fishing and fruit-growing village on the south shore of Lake Neuchâtel, rich in UNESCO-listed lakeside settlements and home to one of the largest marinas in Switzerland.

Chexbres

Lavaux village set between the fields of the Plateau and the vineyards above Lake Geneva, once held by the Bishop of Lausanne and now a regional centre.

Chez-le-Bart

Hamlet of the former municipality of Gorgier on the shore of Lake Neuchâtel, known for its beach and bathing pavilion, near the lakeside site of Les Argilliez.

Chézard-Saint-Martin

Former Val-de-Ruz municipality that brought together the villages of Saint-Martin, Grand-Chézard and Petit-Chézard, at the foot of the Montagne de Chézard.

Chigny

Small farming and wine-growing village on the right bank of the Morges, long tied to the lordship and parish of neighbouring Vufflens-le-Château.

Clarens

Village on the shore of Lake Geneva, in the municipality of Montreux, made a mayoralty in the late 13th century and made famous by Rousseau's « La Nouvelle Héloïse ».

Clarens (Vich)

Hamlet of the municipality of Vich, formerly owned by Bonmont Abbey and later an autonomous community, known for its paper mill in operation from 1591 to 1874.

Clarmont

Small farming and wine-growing village in the district of Morges, on a plateau overlooking the Morges, crossed in Roman times by the Nyon-Yverdon road.

Clémesin

Mountain hamlet of the municipality of Val-de-Ruz above Villiers, known for its métairie whose farmhouse dates back to 1680.

Coffrane

Val-de-Ruz village that grew from a medieval estate, recorded from 1092, scene of the battle of 1296 and home to an agricultural museum founded in 1956.

Coinsins

Village overlooking the countryside around Nyon, mentioned from 1212, known for its 18th-century castle and for the Mimorey farm, once owned by the Oujon charterhouse.

Colombier

Village on a small hill near Lake Neuchâtel, known for its castle built over one of the largest Roman villas in Switzerland and for its military training ground; a locality of Milvignes since 2013.

Colombier

A winegrowing village at the foot of the Morges Jura, built around a Gothic château and the church of Saint-Martin, today one of the four pillars of the municipality of Échichens.

Combes

Wine-growing hamlet on the hillside of Le Landeron, former community of the castellany of Le Landeron with its Sainte-Anne chapel (1681), in the municipality of Le Landeron.

Combremont-le-Grand

Former seigneurial village of the Vaud Broye, linked to its namesake Combremont-le-Petit by a shared origin going back to the early Middle Ages, today a hamlet of the municipality of Valbroye.

Combremont-le-Petit

Former farming village of the Vaud Broye, an administratively distinct twin of Combremont-le-Grand, merged into Valbroye in 2011.

Commugny

Terre Sainte village on the French-Swiss border, home to a Roman villa with exceptional wall paintings and the church of Saint-Christophe, centre of the parish of Terre-Sainte.

Concise

Wine-growing village on the north shore of Lake Neuchâtel, on the border with Neuchâtel, rich in Unesco-listed lake-dwelling sites, the charterhouse of La Lance and the memory of the battle of Grandson.

Constantine

Former wine-growing village of the Vaud Vully, between Lake Neuchâtel and Lake Morat

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Coppet

Small medieval new town on the shore of Lake Geneva, founded by the lords of Thoire et Villars and made famous throughout Europe by the château of Jacques Necker and Madame de Staël.

Corbeyrier

Mountain municipality in the Aigle district above the Yvorne vineyards, marked by the Luan landslide of 1584.

Corcelles

Street village in the vineyards that grew up around a Cluniac priory, long united with Cormondrèche and a locality of the municipality of Neuchâtel since 2021.

Corcelles-le-Jorat

Village in the Jorat, a former lordship granted in fief by the Bishop of Lausanne in the 12th century, with its castle rebuilt in 1769-1771 and its church of 1725-1726.

Corcelles-près-Concise

Wine-growing village on the north shore of Lake Neuchâtel, known for its Neolithic menhirs and its Unesco-listed lake-dwelling sites, a former lordship with an 18th-century castle.

Corcelles-près-Payerne

Large village in the Broye valley on the old road to Bern, long part of the domain of Payerne, from which it separated at the beginning of the 19th century.

Corcelles-sur-Chavornay

Former Vaud village nicknamed «the Swallows», which became in 2017 a locality of the municipality of Chavornay.

Cormondrèche

Winegrowing street village on a terrace above the lake, long linked with Corcelles and a locality of the municipality of Neuchâtel since 2021.

Cornaux

Winegrowing village of the Entre-deux-Lacs at the foot of the Jura, known to archaeologists worldwide for the Celtic bridge of Les Sauges, uncovered in 1965.

Correvon

Small agricultural village on the Gros-de-Vaud plateau, former independent municipality that became in 2013 one of the nine villages of the municipality of Montanaire.

Corseaux

Municipality of the Vaud Riviera on Lake Geneva, known for its Neolithic necropolis of En Seyton and Le Corbusier's Villa « Le Lac ».

Corsier-sur-Vevey

Former centre of the great parish of Corsier, on the right bank of the Veveyse, where Charlie Chaplin spent the last 25 years of his life.

Cortaillod

Wine-growing village on a cliff above Lake Neuchâtel, which gave its name to a Neolithic culture and has been home to the cable industry since 1879.

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Cossonay

A town of lords built on a spur of the Gros-de-Vaud, long the chief town of its own district before joining that of Morges.

Cottens

A village at the foot of the Vaud Jura, long under the sway of the barony of Cossonay, today one of the six faces of the municipality of Hautemorges.

Cotterd

Hamlet in the municipality of Vully-les-Lacs, on a terrace overlooking Lake Morat, seat of one of the smallest parishes in the canton.

Couvet

Industrial village of the Val-de-Travers at the confluence of the Areuse and the Sucre, home of Ferdinand Berthoud and cradle of the Dubied knitting machines, today part of the municipality of Val-de-Travers (merger of 1 January 2009).

Crans

Residential village on the Côte, west of Nyon, overlooking Lake Geneva, known for its French-style château built in the 18th century by the Saladin family.

Crassier

Border village between Nyon and Divonne, mentioned from 1123, a former small lordship and birthplace of Suzanne Curchod, the future Madame Necker.

Crausaz

Hamlet in the municipality of Gollion, on the right bank of the Venoge, a former estate of the Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem.

Cremin

Former farming village of the Vaud Broye, today a hamlet of the municipality of Lucens.

Cressier

Winegrowing village at the foot of the Jura, on the edge of the Thielle plain, which remained Catholic at the Reformation and bears the mark of the Vallier family and its castle.

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Crissier

A former farming and winegrowing village at the foot of the Jura that became, in the shadow of its motorways, an unassuming capital of world gastronomy and the logistics heart of Suisse romande.

Cronay

Farming village in northern Vaud between the valleys of the Menthue and the Cuarny, overlooked by the Signal hill and the remains of Castellion castle, where the Genevan writer Rodolphe Töpffer spent his summers.

Croy

Village at the foot of the Jura above the Nozon, born at a crossroads and long subject to the convent of Romainmôtier.

Cuarnens

Village at the foot of the Jura crossed by the Venoge, with a Roman villa and a long seigneurial history, listed in its entirety in the Federal Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites (ISOS).

Cuarny

Street village east of Yverdon-les-Bains, inhabited since the Bronze Age, known for the flammable gases that escaped from its soil and for the unsuccessful oil drilling of the 20th century.

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Cudrefin

Small 13th-century Savoyard new town on the shore of Lake Neuchâtel, a former fortified town with franchises, today a tourist resort with marinas.

Cugy

Village in the Gros-de-Vaud on the edge of the Jorat woods, mentioned from the 10th century, linked to the abbey of Montheron and then to Lausanne, which became a residential municipality thanks to the 1906 tramway.

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Cully

Wine-growing village on the shore of Lake Léman, former chief town of the district of Lavaux, today the historic heart of the municipality of Bourg-en-Lavaux and of the terraced vineyard listed as UNESCO World Heritage.

Curtilles

Village on the right bank of the Broye, one of the oldest possessions of the bishops of Lausanne, site of synods in the 9th century, which becomes a locality of Lucens on 1 January 2027.

Daillens

Village in the Gros-de-Vaud at the junction of the railway lines to Neuchâtel and Vallorbe, with a major early medieval cemetery and a church with 14th-century wall paintings.

Démoret

Small farming village on the northern plateau of the Jorat, between the Broye and the Mentue, with a Saint-Maurice church that is among the oldest in the region and two castles.

Denens

Rural wine-growing village on a plateau above Morges, around a seigneurial castle and a church that belonged to the Great St Bernard.

Denezy

Former agricultural village of the Gros-de-Vaud, mentioned as early as 929, today one of the nine villages of the municipality of Montanaire.

Denges

Village on the right bank of the Venoge between Morges and Lausanne, profoundly transformed since 1969 by the SBB marshalling yard.

Dizy

Street village on a hill between the Venoge and the Veyron, mentioned from the 10th century in a charter of the monastery of Romainmôtier, former fief of the lords of Dizy.

Dombresson

Street village of the Val-de-Ruz built along the Seyon, recorded from 1178 as the seat of the parish of Saint-Brice.

Dommartin

A former centre of a castellany in the Jorat, today marked by the ruins of its medieval castle.

Dompierre

Farming village on a plateau overlooking the Broye valley, on the border with the canton of Fribourg, a parish attested since 1228.

Donatyre

A village born in the shadow of the ramparts of the Roman city of Aventicum, today a hamlet of the municipality of Avenches.

Donneloye

Large farming village on the right bank of the Mentue, a former medieval lordship with a 15th-century castle, now the centre of a municipality that also includes Gossens, Mézery-près-Donneloye and Prahins.

Duillier

Village of La Côte above Nyon, on the road from Nyon to Arzier, known for its castle whose origins go back to the 12th century and which was the cradle of the Fatio family.

Dully

Residential village of La Côte on a small slope above Lake Geneva, with its medieval castle and the hamlet of Saint-Bonnet.

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Échallens

Small town of the Gros-de-Vaud that grew up around the castle of the Montfaucon, granted franchises in 1351 and long a common bailiwick of Bern and Fribourg.

Echandens

Village on the left bank of the Venoge between Morges and Lausanne, with its 16th-century castle where Georges Simenon lived; within a few decades it changed from countryside to suburb.

Echichens

Wine-growing village on the slope above Morges and Lake Geneva, with the ancient church of Joulens, since 2011 the centre of a municipality grouping four villages.

Éclagnens

Former farming village of the Gros-de-Vaud, mentioned as early as 1265, today a hamlet of the municipality of Goumoëns.

Eclépens

A village at the foot of the Mormont, a hill where around 100 BC the Helvetii left a vast site presented as a sanctuary, once crossed by the Entreroches canal and an industrial centre in the 20th century.

Écoteaux

Small village in the Vaud Prealps, between the Mionne and the Broye, which has preserved traces of a Roman villa and the ruins of its former castle before joining the municipality of Oron in 2012.

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Ecublens

Commune west of Lausanne where the University of Lausanne and EPFL settled from 1970, turning a farming village into a university town.

Enges

Farming village on the slopes of the Chasseral, which remained Catholic within the parish of Cressier, now a locality of the municipality of Laténa.

Engollon

Small farming village in the Val-de-Ruz on the Seyon, once the centre of a large parish, known for its church with medieval frescoes and the memory of the vanished town of La Bonneville.

Envy

Former agricultural hamlet of the Vaud Jura, united with Romainmôtier since 1970 within the municipality of Romainmôtier-Envy.

Epagnier

Former village on Lake Neuchâtel, mentioned from 1163, united with Marin in 1888 and today a district of the municipality of Laténa.

Epalinges

Municipality in the heights above Lausanne, born at the edge of the Jorat forest on the Lausanne-Bern road, long agricultural and residential since 1950.

Épendes

Farming village on the edge of the Orbe plain, which grew up in the early Middle Ages on the hill of La Poëpe, with its Saint-Martin church entrusted in 1172 to the Premonstratensians of the Lac de Joux.

Épesses

A wine-growing village nestled in the heart of the Lavaux terraced vineyards, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Essert-Pittet

Former farming village at the foot of the Vaud Jura, seat of a seigneury held by the de Hennezel family, merged with Chavornay and Corcelles-sur-Chavornay in 2017.

Essert-sous-Champvent

A small hamlet in the Jura-Nord vaudois born of land clearance, which remained for eight centuries within the orbit of Champvent before merging with it in 2012.

Essertes

A village of the Jorat born around a Cistercian grange, marked by the largest menhir in Switzerland.

Essertines-sur-Rolle

Municipality of La Côte above Rolle, heir to the lordship of Mont-le-Vieux, with its Romanesque church of Saint-André built on Carolingian foundations.

Essertines-sur-Yverdon

Gros-de-Vaud village on the right bank of the Buron, once a prebend of the Lausanne chapter and then a Bernese castellany, where oil was found in 1963.

Etagnières

Gros-de-Vaud village on the LEB line, long part of the common bailiwick of Bern and Fribourg, which stayed Catholic and then became mixed, now a residential municipality near Lausanne.

Etoy

A former priory of the Grand-Saint-Bernard turned into a château, on the shore of Lake Léman, today known as much for its vineyards as for the world headquarters of a banana giant.

Eysins

Village on La Côte near Nyon, recorded since 1001/1002, which preserves Roman traces and honours the memory of the brothers Urbain and Juste Olivier.

Faoug

Wine-growing and farming village on the south shore of Lake Morat, on the Bernese border, inhabited since the Neolithic and an old Notre-Dame parish mentioned in 1228.

Féchy

Wine-growing village of La Côte, between Nyon and Aubonne, divided into two cores on either side of the old Vy d'Etraz and known for its wine.

Fenalet-sur-Bex

Hamlet in the municipality of Bex (Aigle district), above the vineyards on the road to Gryon, cradle of the Thomas family of botanists.

Fenil-sur-Corsier

Locality in the municipality of Corsier-sur-Vevey, on the Veveyse, known for the Pont de Fenil inaugurated in 1904 and for its industrial zone.

Fenin

Val-de-Ruz village at the foot of Chaumont, recorded from 1191, with its Saint-Laurent church and its 16th-century manor known as « le château ».

Ferlens

Former village in the Vaud Jorat, independent until 2016, today part of the municipality of Jorat-Mézières.

Ferreyres

Village on the northern slope of the Venoge valley, whose name recalls an ironworking activity carried out from the end of La Tène to the early Middle Ages.

Fey

Gros-de-Vaud village whose name comes from the beech tree, formerly dependent on the lordship of Bercher, served by the LEB since 1889.

Fiez

Village at the foot of the Jura above Grandson, recorded since 885, once a royal estate and later the seat of a mayoralty, whose church of Saint-Clément dates back to the 12th century.

Flendruz

Village of the Pays-d'Enhaut, in the Sarine valley, in the municipality of Rougemont.

Fleurier

Large Val-de-Travers village at the confluence of three streams, which became a centre of watchmaking and lace in the 19th century, today in the municipality of Val-de-Travers (merger of 1 January 2009).

Fontainemelon

Former farming village in the Val-de-Ruz that became, from 1793, a centre of watch movement blank (ébauche) manufacturing.

Fontaines

A village at the heart of the Val-de-Ruz in the canton of Neuchâtel, mentioned since 1228, known for its historic fountains and its 16th-century Gothic temple.

Fontaines-sur-Grandson

Farming village at the foot of the Jura above Grandson, named after its many springs, a former possession of the monastery of Romainmôtier that became an independent municipality in 1730.

Fontanezier

A former farming village halfway up the Vaud Jura, known for its fountains and integrated since 2011 into the municipality of Tévenon.

Forel (Lavaux)

Municipality of many hamlets on the northern slope of Mont de Gourze, born from the Monts de Villette and run from the hamlet of Les Cornes-de-Cerf.

Forel-sur-Lucens

An agricultural village on the plateau overlooking the Broye, a former seigneury that became an independent municipality before merging into Lucens in 2017.

Founex

Terre Sainte village between Coppet and Nyon, formerly dependent on the barony of Coppet, a Vaud pioneer in the fight against phylloxera.

Frenières-sur-Bex

Hamlet in the municipality of Bex (Aigle district), between Bex and Les Plans, near the ruins of the Ergnau fortified house.

Fresens

Small farming village of the Béroche, perched on a terrace above Lake Neuchâtel and home to a Neolithic dolmen, the Trou des Âmes.

Froideville

A village born from Cistercian land clearance in the Jorat, freed from the tutelage of the abbey of Montheron in 1455 and today a residential municipality at the gates of Lausanne.

Genolier

Village of La Côte on the road from Nyon to Arzier, once the seat of a small priory of the abbey of Saint-Claude and of a castle of the lords of Mont, known today for its clinic.

Germagny

Wine-growing quarter of the municipality of Mont-sur-Rolle, once a distinct territorial entity, known for the Clos de Germagny, a 16th-century manor house.

Giez

Village on the plateau between Lake Neuchâtel and the Jura, above Grandson, where Charles the Bold set up his camp in 1476; it keeps a Romanesque church, a late 15th-century castle and the «Les Tourelles» house.

Gilly

Wine-growing municipality of La Côte, with the hamlet of Vincy, whose territory was home to the castle of La Motte, described as the oldest castle in Vaud.

Gimel

Village at the foot of the Jura on the Marchairuz road, a former parish centre and holiday resort, which from 1 January 2027 becomes the name of the municipality merged with Saubraz and Saint-Oyens.

Gingins

Compact village at the foot of the Jura, on the road from Nyon to La Dôle, cradle of a noble family and seat of a lordship whose present castle dates from around 1440.

Givrins

Compact village overlooking a small combe at the foot of the Jura, above Nyon, long enriched by the use of its mountain pastures and forests.

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Gland

Former farming village on La Côte that became a town within a few decades thanks to the 1964 motorway, home to major nature conservation organisations such as WWF and IUCN.

Gland (Vullierens)

Rural hamlet laid out in a line above the vineyard, some 200 metres north-east of the village of Vullierens, in the municipality of Vullierens.

Glion

Village perched above Montreux, in the municipality of Montreux, which became a 19th-century climatic resort served by the Territet-Glion funicular.

Gollion

Farming village on a plateau overlooking the Venoge, marked by its ancient refuge sites, the commandery of Saint-Jean at Crausaz, the «Moulin d'Amour» and the witch trials of the 17th century.

Gorgier

Hillside village of the Béroche, long at the heart of the lordship of Gorgier and overlooked by its castle, with the lakeside hamlet of Chez-le-Bart.

Gossens

A small farming village nestled on a hill overlooking the Menthue, today part of the municipality of Donneloye.

Goumoens-la-Ville

Former chief town of the lordship of Goumoëns in the Gros-de-Vaud, with two seigneurial castles and a church counted among the oldest in the canton of Vaud.

Goumoens-le-Jux

Former seigneurial village in the Vaud Jorat, seat of one of the three branches of the noble de Goumoëns family, whose medieval castle was destroyed in 1475.

Grancy

Village on the Vaud plateau made up of Grancy and the hamlet of Saint-Denis on the bank of the Veyron, with its castle, its church and important Roman remains.

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Grand-Cachot-de-Vent

Double farmhouse of 1530-1531 at Le Cachot, in the municipality of La Chaux-du-Milieu, saved from ruin and now an art gallery.

Grandchamp

Hamlet of Areuse in the municipality of Boudry, former site of a calico-printing works and since the 1930s home of the Protestant Community of Grandchamp.

Grandcour

Former small Savoyard fortified town in the Broye, seat of a castellany and later of a circle, with its classical castle of 1738 and the oldest shooting society in Vaud.

Grandevent

Small farming village on the first slopes of the Jura above Grandson, which became a separate community in 1730 when the métralie of Fiez was broken up.

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Grandson

Small town on Lake Neuchâtel overlooked by its great medieval castle, famous for the battle of 2 March 1476 in which the Confederates put Charles the Bold to flight.

Grandvaux

A perched wine-growing village in the Lavaux terraced vineyards, known for its picturesque lanes and its tradition of wine labels, today a locality of the municipality of Bourg-en-Lavaux.

Granges-près-Marnand

Former farming village in the Vaud Broye region, mentioned as early as 881, known for its coat of arms featuring three geese and incorporated into the municipality of Valbroye in 2011.

Granges-sous-Trey

Hamlet of the municipality of Trey, on the right bank of the Broye and the road from Lausanne to Bern, with a railway halt since 1876.

Grens

Street village on the plateau between Nyon and the foot of the Jura, mentioned from the 12th century, whose church of Saint-Pierre came under the abbey of Bonmont.

Gressy

A village at the foot of the Vaud Jura-Nord region, guardian of a rare Celtic rampart, absorbed by the city of Yverdon-les-Bains in 2011.

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Grotte de Cotencher

Cave in the Gorges de l'Areuse, in the municipality of Rochefort, a Mousterian site that has yielded the most important Neanderthal human remain in Switzerland.

Gryon

Mountain village at about 1'110 metres between the gorges of the Gryonne and the Avançon, long tied to the abbey of Saint-Maurice and now a holiday resort.

Haute-Cour

Wine-growing locality of the municipality of Mont-sur-Rolle, mentioned from 1260, whose upper part, now La Noyère, forms the old core of the municipality.

Hauterive

Wine-growing village at the foot of Chaumont, which gave its name to the yellow Hauterive stone and houses the Laténium on the Champréveyres site.

Henniez

Village in the Broye known for its mineral water springs, used as baths from 1688 and bottled since 1905.

Hermenches

Jorat municipality on the Bressonnaz, mentioned from 1254, made a small lordship around its castle in the 17th century.

Huémoz

Hamlet in the municipality of Ollon, on a small plateau of the Mi-Monts at about 1'000 m, between the Rhône plain and Villars-Chesières.

Jongny

Residential village on the slopes of Mont-Pèlerin above Vevey, formerly part of the large community of Corsier.

Joulens

Hamlet of the municipality of Echichens, on the slope above Morges, site of the former parish church of Notre-Dame on which Morges depended in the Middle Ages.

Jouxtens-Mézery

Municipality in the western suburbs of Lausanne uniting Jouxtens and Mézery since 1798, where a Roman villa and a castle with a famous painted salon survive.

Juriens

Farming village at the foot of the Jura, former land of the monastery of Romainmôtier, ravaged several times by fire between 1733 and 1811.

L'Abbaye

Municipality on the southern shore of the Lac de Joux and Lac Brenet, grown up around the Premonstratensian abbey founded in the 12th century and made up of the villages of L'Abbaye, Le Pont and Les Bioux.

L'Abergement

Farming street village at the foot of the Jura, formerly dependent on the lordship of Les Clées, whose church holds stained glass by Eugène Grasset intended for Lausanne Cathedral.

L'Auberson

Jura street village in the municipality of Sainte-Croix, near the French border, long living from watchmaking and then from the music box.

L'Etivaz

Mountain village in the municipality of Château-d'Œx, a former independent parish on the Col des Mosses road, which gave its name to L'Etivaz alpine cheese.

L'Isle

At the source of the Venoge, a village in the canton of Vaud dominated by a classical 17th-century château sometimes nicknamed the little Versailles of Vaud

L'Orient

Street village in the Vallée de Joux, a fraction of the commune of Le Chenit that grew from farming and then from the watchmaking boom, on the right bank of the Orbe near the Lac de Joux.

La Brévine

Village of the high valley of La Brévine, known for its cold records, born of medieval land clearing and recognised as a municipality in 1624.

La Chaux (Cossonay)

Municipality at the foot of the Jura made up of the villages of La Chaux and Ittens on either side of the Veyron, once the seat of the main commandery of the Templars and then of the Hospitallers in the Pays de Vaud.

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La Chaux-de-Fonds

Watchmaking metropolis of the Neuchâtel Jura, rebuilt on a grid after the fire of 1794, birthplace of Le Corbusier and a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2009 together with Le Locle.

La Chaux-du-Milieu

Farming village of the valley of La Brévine, granted as a fief in 1310 to inhabitants of Morteau, a parish since 1716 and a municipality since 1825.

La Comballaz

Area of scattered settlement in the municipality of Ormont-Dessous, on the Col des Mosses road, where spa tourism began around 1860.

La Conversion

Locality in the upper part of the municipality of Lutry, served since 1862 by a station on the line to Bern.

La Corbatière

Hamlet in the municipality of La Sagne, at the north-eastern end of the La Sagne valley, known for its erratic boulder protected since 1910 and its ski lifts opened in 1950.

La Côte-aux-Fées

Municipality of hamlets in the upper Val-de-Travers, centred on Les Bolles-du-Temple, birthplace of the Piaget watch manufactory.

La Coudre

Former wine-growing village on the Vy d'Etra, recorded from 1143, a district of Neuchâtel since 1930 and the starting point of the Chaumont funicular.

La Coudre

Jura hamlet of the municipality of L'Isle, on the old road from Morges to the Vallée de Joux, organised since 1583 as a community that still manages its own property.

La Croix (Lutry)

Former village in the upper part of the municipality of Lutry, now a residential district with a school since 2004.

La Cure

Border hamlet of the municipality of Saint-Cergue, straddling the Franco-Swiss border, which became mostly Swiss through the Treaty of Dappes of 1862.

La Forclaz

Mountain village of the municipality of Ormont-Dessous, one of the oldest permanent settlements of the Ormonts valley.

La Jonchère

Hamlet of the municipality of Val-de-Ruz, formerly part of Boudevilliers, mentioned in 1413 and with its own school from 1711.

La Lécherette

Mountain locality in the municipality of Château-d'Œx on the Col des Mosses road, long purely agricultural and now a ski resort together with Les Mosses.

La Mothe

Hamlet in the municipality of Vugelles-La Mothe, at the foot of the natural mound that carried the castle, centre of a lordship from the 14th century.

La Praz

Small farming and forestry village at the foot of the Jura, former land of Romainmôtier, known for its prehistoric cromlech.

La Rippe

Border municipality at the foot of the Dôle, born of a vanished village, Pellens, and long dependent on the abbey of Bonmont.

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La Robella

Plateau and winter and summer sports resort above Buttes, on the northern slope of the Chasseron, in the municipality of Val-de-Travers (former municipality of Buttes).

La Robellaz

Hamlet in the municipality of Essertines-sur-Yverdon, on the left bank of the Buron, a former estate of the La Lance charterhouse that became a noble fief under Bern.

La Rogivue

A discreet hamlet nestled between a reddened peat bog and the Fribourg border area, on the margins of the district of Lavaux-Oron.

La Russille

Farming hamlet in the municipality of Les Clées, on a terrace at the foot of the Suchet, mentioned in 1666 and listed in the Federal Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites (ISOS).

La Sagne

Long street village in the valley of La Sagne and Les Ponts, in the Neuchâtel Mountains, mentioned in 1332 and starting point of the royalist uprising of 1856.

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La Sarraz

Small medieval town in the Venoge valley, born at the foot of the castle built in 1049 to guard the Mormont pass.

La Tine

Hamlet in the Sarine gorge, formerly called Cuves, in the municipality of Rossinière.

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La Tour-de-Peilz

Small Savoyard town founded in 1282 on Lake Geneva between Vevey and Montreux, whose castle houses the Swiss Museum of Games and where Gustave Courbet spent his last years.

La Vraconnaz

Locality in the municipality of Sainte-Croix known for its raised bog, one of the last peat bogs in the canton of Vaud, and for giving its name to the geologists' Vraconnian.

La Vue-des-Alpes

Jura pass (1'283 m) and locality of the municipality of Val-de-Ruz on the former territory of Fontaines, between Neuchâtel and La Chaux-de-Fonds, famous for its view of the Alps.

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Lac des Taillères

Small natural lake in the La Brévine valley, in the municipality of La Brévine, whose waters reach the source of the Areuse underground.

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Lausanne

Capital of Vaud, grown from the Gallo-Roman vicus of Lousonna on the lakeshore, a bishop's city crowned by its Gothic cathedral consecrated in 1275, and home of the International Olympic Committee since 1915.

Lavey

Between the Rhône and the cliffs of the Saint-Maurice defile, the old gateway to the Alps where hot springs, fortifications and hydroelectric power have succeeded one another.

Lavey-les-Bains

Spa locality of the municipality of Lavey-Morcles, on the banks of the Rhône, born from the hot spring tapped in 1831.

Lavigny

Wine-growing village overlooking Lake Geneva, known for its castle turned writers' house and for the Institution de Lavigny, a neurological centre founded in 1906.

Le Brassus

Watchmaking village on the banks of the Orbe in the Vallée de Joux, a leading centre of Swiss fine watchmaking and a fraction of the commune of Le Chenit.

Le Cerneux-Péquignot

Catholic clearing village at 1'070 m on the French border, long a possession of the priory of Morteau, which became part of Neuchâtel in 1814-1819.

Le Châtelard

Former commune of the Vaud Riviera organized around its 15th-century château, bringing together seventeen villages and hamlets including Clarens, before its merger with Les Planches in 1962 to form Montreux.

Le Chenit

Three villages born from the clearing of a Jura valley, which became one of the world's cradles of haute horlogerie (fine watchmaking).

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Le Landeron

Fortified small town founded in 1325 on the Thielle, seat of a châtellenie until 1848, which remained Catholic at the Reformation.

Le Lieu

The oldest village in the Vallée de Joux, born of a monastic settlement attested in 1155, and for a long time the seat of the single commune covering the whole valley.

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Le Locle

"Mother commune" of the Neuchâtel mountains and cradle of Jura watchmaking, rebuilt for watchmakers after three fires and a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2009 together with La Chaux-de-Fonds.

Le Mont-Pèlerin

Locality in the municipality of Chardonne, perched above Vevey and linked to the shore of Lake Geneva by funicular since 1900, known for its Belle Époque grand hotels.

Le Mont-sur-Lausanne

Municipality made up of the hamlets of Petit-Mont, Grand-Mont and Planches, on the edge of the Jorat woods, officially a town since 2024.

Le Pâquier

Small village of pastures and forests at the north-eastern end of the Val-de-Ruz, on the road from Neuchâtel to Saint-Imier, at the foot of the Chasseral.

Le Pont

Village of the municipality of L'Abbaye, at the northern end of the Lac de Joux, born from a hamlet of livestock farmers and turned around 1900 into a tourist resort and the centre of the natural ice industry.

Le Séchey

Small village in the commune of Le Lieu, on the eastern shore of Lac de Joux, marked by a watchmaking boom at the end of the 18th century.

Le Sentier

Main village of the commune of Le Chenit and cradle of fine watchmaking in the Vallée de Joux

Le Sépey

Main village of the municipality of Ormont-Dessous, the oldest clustered settlement of the Ormonts valley, attested in 1231.

Le Solliat

Farming village in the commune of Le Chenit, on the edge of the Orbe plain in the Vallée de Joux, which stayed apart from its neighbours' watchmaking boom and is organised as a public-interest society.

Le Vaud

Village at the foot of the Jura on a road to the Marchairuz pass, heir to hamlets of the abbey of Bonmont, which became a residential commune within a few decades.

Le Vernay

Former hamlet and former municipality in the La Côte wine region, dissolved in 1830, whose territory is now divided between the municipalities of Bursins and Luins.

Les Avants

Mountain village of the municipality of Montreux, at about 1'000 metres above sea level, a pioneer of winter sports and Belle Époque health tourism.

Les Bayards

Street village in the upper Val-de-Travers, formed from Grand and Petit Bayard, long a member of the Générale communauté of Les Verrières, now part of the municipality of Val-de-Travers (merger of 1 January 2009).

Les Bioux

Street village of the municipality of L'Abbaye, stretching for 3 km along the eastern shore of the Lac de Joux, at the foot of the Mont-Tendre.

Les Bolles-du-Temple

Main hamlet and administrative centre of the municipality of La Côte-aux-Fées, around its temple, in the Neuchâtel Jura.

Les Brenets

The only Neuchâtel village on the northern slope of the Jura, on the Doubs and its lake, rebuilt on a geometric plan after the fire of 1848, today in the municipality of Le Locle (merger of 1 January 2021).

Les Charbonnières

Village in the commune of Le Lieu between Lac Brenet and Lac de Joux, linked to the history of charcoal, iron and Vacherin Mont-d'Or.

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Les Clées

Former small medieval town in the Orbe gorges, whose castle controlled the road over the Jougne pass, today one of the smallest municipalities in Vaud.

Les Cullayes

Former agricultural village in the Vaud Jorat, independent for centuries before merging with Servion on 1 January 2012.

Les Diablerets

Mountain locality of the municipality of Ormont-Dessus, the former hamlet of Le Plan des Isles that became a resort village at the foot of the Diablerets massif.

Les Eplatures

Former municipality of farms and hamlets between Le Locle and La Chaux-de-Fonds, merged into La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1900, now an industrial district with the regional airport.

Les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane

Val-de-Ruz village at the foot of Mont Racine, once a community of francs-habergeants, later an industrial village and birthplace of Felco pruning shears.

Les Hauts-Geneveys

Val-de-Ruz village at the foot of Tête-de-Ran, once a community of francs-habergeants, later a Jura-Industriel station and gateway to the Vue-des-Alpes tunnel.

Les Monts-de-Corsier

Hamlet in the municipality of Corsier-sur-Vevey, in the upper part of the municipality above Vevey, which remained agricultural until the 20th century.

Les Monts-de-Pully

Scattered settlement on the wooded heights of Pully, bordering the Jorat, in the municipality of Pully.

Les Mosses

Mountain locality of the municipality of Ormont-Dessous, at the Col des Mosses, a pass used since prehistoric times between the Ormonts and the Pays-d'Enhaut.

Les Moulins

Village in the municipality of Château-d'Œx, on the floor of the Torneresse valley near its confluence with the Sarine, known for its 17th and 18th century wooden houses.

Les Planches

Former commune of the Vaud Riviera, the tourist cradle of Territet and Glion, merged with Le Châtelard in 1962 to form Montreux

Les Planchettes

Farming and forest municipality in the Neuchâtel Mountains, between the Doubs and Pouillerel, home to the Franco-Swiss Le Châtelot dam.

Les Plans-sur-Bex

Mountain hamlet in the municipality of Bex (Aigle district), at 1'095 metres in the Plans valley, a centre of alpine botany since Haller and the Thomas family.

Les Ponts-de-Martel

Watchmaking village in the Neuchâtel Mountains, on the edge of the marshes of the valley of La Sagne and Les Ponts, whose bridges over the marsh are mentioned in 1376.

Les Posses-sur-Bex

Hamlet in the municipality of Bex (Aigle district) on the road to Gryon, known for its granaries of 1666 and 1692.

Les Rasses

Hamlet in the municipality of Bullet, on a terrace of the Vaud Jura at about 1'200 m, which became a holiday resort with the Grand Hôtel des Rasses opened in 1898.

Les Serraux

Former lordship and former municipality within the municipality of Begnins, mentioned from 1145, of which two large wine estates remain.

Les Taillères

Hamlet of the municipality of La Brévine on the shore of the Lac des Taillères, part of the mairie of the Chaux-des-Taillères from 1624 to 1848.

Les Tavernes

Former farming and roadside hamlet in the district of Lavaux-Oron, whose name evokes an inn of times past, part of the municipality of Oron since 2012.

Les Thioleyres

Former street-village born from a monastic tile works, today a hamlet of the municipality of Oron

Les Verrières

Border street village of the Val-de-Travers, on the old road to France, where the Bourbaki army was interned in Switzerland in February 1871.

Les Vieux-Prés

Mountain hamlet of the municipality of Val-de-Ruz at 1'030 metres above Dombresson and Chézard, on the former territory of Dombresson.

Leysin

Alpine village on a plateau at 1'260 metres at the foot of the Tours d'Aï and de Mayen, a former tuberculosis cure resort turned holiday resort and home to international schools.

Lignerolle

Farming village on the slopes of the Suchet, grouped around the church of Saint-Vit, one of the oldest in the region, and a 17th-century manor house.

Lignières

Village on the Plateau de Diesse at the foot of the Chasseral, long shared between the Count of Neuchâtel and the Prince-Bishop of Basel, known for its franc-alleu and its motor racing circuit.

Lonay

Wine-growing village above Morges, an old parish of the Church of Lausanne, known for its church of Saint-Germain and its large tile works.

Longirod

Village at the foot of the Jura on one of the roads to the Col du Marchairuz, known for the Pierre d'Outard, a listed megalith, its chapel of Saint-Théodule from 1440 and the great fire of 1788.

Lovatens

Ridge village on the right bank of the Broye, mentioned around the year 1000, formerly a possession of the Abbey of Saint-Maurice and later attached to Curtilles.

Lucens

Small town in the middle Broye valley, dominated by the former castle of the bishops of Lausanne, which became the seat of the Bernese bailiffs of Moudon.

Luins

Wine-growing street village of La Côte, handed around 1234 to the Cossonay branch to supply it with wine, with its church of Saint-Pierre and its castle.

Lully

Small wine-growing village west of Morges, given in 1018 to the abbey of Saint-Maurice, now a residential municipality.

Lussery

Former Vaud village on the banks of the Venoge, united with Villars-Lussery since 1999 within the municipality of Lussery-Villars.

Lussy-sur-Morges

A farming and wine-growing village above Morges, mentioned since 1026, long a possession of the abbey of Saint-Maurice, with an 18th-century church and parsonage.

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Lutry

Small fortified medieval town on Lake Geneva that grew up around a Benedictine priory, at the western entrance to the Lavaux vineyards.

Malapalud

A hamlet of the Gros-de-Vaud named after a "bad marsh", joined to Assens in 2009 and then incorporated into the present-day commune of Assens in 2021.

Malvilliers

A hamlet of the former municipality of Boudevilliers that became a junction on the Vue-des-Alpes road, then a small health resort in the early 20th century.

Maracon

Farming village in the uplands of the Vaud Broye on the border with the canton of Fribourg, recorded since 1236 and united with La Rogivue since 2003.

Marchissy

Compact village at the foot of the Jura on one of the roads to the Col du Marchairuz, famous for its linden tree, about 700 years old and one of the largest in Switzerland.

Marin-Épagnier

Locality on Lake Neuchâtel whose La Tène site gave its name to the European late Iron Age, now part of the municipality of Laténa.

Marnand

Former village of the Vaud Broye region, on the right bank of the Broye, which gave its name in 2011 to the merged municipality of Valbroye.

Martherenges

A modest farming hamlet in the Gros-de-Vaud, long held by the de Praroman family, which remained a quiet village until it joined the municipality of Montanaire in 2013.

Mathod

Village in the Mujon plain, on the former Roman road from Orbe to Avenches, known for its Bernese castle with a Palladian staircase and set to merge with Suscévaz in 2027.

Mauborget

The highest village of the Vaud Jura, perched at 1'170 m between the Chasseron and the Mont Aubert, an independent municipality since the break-up of the mayoralty of Fiez in 1730.

Mauraz

A tiny municipality of 45 hectares at the confluence of the Veyron and the Morand, which grew up around mills, a fulling mill and a sawmill.

Meudon

Western quarter of the street village of Les Verrières, grouped around the late Gothic church of 1517, in the municipality of Les Verrières.

Mex

Village in the Gros-de-Vaud north-west of Lausanne, mentioned from 1154, former lordship of the Charrière family with two castles, now a residential municipality of the Lausanne agglomeration.

Mézery-près-Donneloye

A modest farming hamlet in the Vaud Jura-Nord, an independent seigneury for centuries before joining the municipality of Donneloye in 2008.

Mézières

Large street-village of the Vaud Jorat, chief town of the new municipality of Jorat-Mézières since 2016, known for its century-old wooden theater and for being the birthplace of General Henri Guisan.

Mies

Terre Sainte street village on a terrace overlooking Lake Geneva at the Geneva border, inhabited since the Neolithic and long linked to the lordship of Coppet.

Miéville

Hamlet of the street village of La Sagne, in the municipality of La Sagne, where the teacher and draughtsman Oscar Huguenin spent his youth.

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Mines d'asphalte de La Presta

Former asphalt mine of La Presta, in the municipality of Val-de-Travers (former municipality of Travers), worked from 1712 to 1986 and open to the public since 1987.

Missy

Street village in the Broye plain, mentioned in 1148 among the possessions of the Priory of Payerne, whose farmers all also work land in the canton of Fribourg.

Moiry

A forest village at the foot of the Jura, on the left bank of the Venoge, a former lordship of the Gingins where mills and sawmills long used the power of water.

Mollens

A small village nestled against the Jura vaudois, between the Mollendruz and Marchairuz passes, whose traces of occupation date back to the end of the last glaciation.

Mollie-Margot

Hamlet on the heights of the Jorat, one of the main hamlets of the municipality of Savigny.

Molondin

Farming village on a plateau overlooking the ravine of the Ruisseau des Vaux, heir to the lordship of Saint-Martin-du-Chêne, whose medieval tower still watches over the valley.

Monlési

Estate and country house in the municipality of Val-de-Travers (former municipality of Boveresse), summer retreat of the Pury family, with a natural ice cave nearby.

Monnaz

The smallest village in the municipality of Échichens, nestled on the hillside between Morges and the La Côte vineyard.

Monruz

Lakeside district of Neuchâtel, a former hamlet of La Coudre, where work on the A5 motorway revealed one of the main Magdalenian camps in Switzerland.

Mont-la-Ville

Mountain municipality on the south-east slope of the Jura along the Mollendruz road, whose rock shelter holds the oldest human traces in the territory of Vaud.

Mont-sur-Rolle

Wine-growing municipality of La Côte, former centre of the lordship of Mont-le-Grand, seat of the lords of Mont, whose original castle burned in 1475.

Montagny-le-Corbe

Castle site and former centre of the lordship of Montagny-le-Corbe, on the hill above the Brinaz, in the municipality of Montagny-près-Yverdon.

Montagny-près-Yverdon

Municipality on the doorstep of Yverdon-les-Bains, former centre of the great lordship of Montagny-le-Corbe, whose castle ruins still overlook the Orbe plain.

Montalchez

Farming village in the uplands of the Béroche, mentioned in 1340, which has kept its rural character above Lake Neuchâtel.

Montaubion-Chardonney

One of the five founding villages of the municipality of Jorat-Menthue, formed of two former hamlets perched above the gorges of the Menthue, in the heart of the Jorat forest.

Montcherand

Village perched above the Orbe gorges, grown up around a Cluniac church that holds one of the oldest ensembles of figurative wall paintings in Switzerland.

Montet (Cudrefin)

Village on a hill overlooking Lake Neuchâtel, former seat of the parish of Cudrefin, in the municipality of Cudrefin.

Montherod

A former farming village in the Vallon de l'Aubonne, on the right bank of the river Aubonne, an independent municipality until its merger with Aubonne on 1 January 2021.

Montmagny

A wine-growing village perched on the heights of the Mont Vully, between Lake Neuchâtel and Lake Morat, today part of the municipality of Vully-les-Lacs.

Montmollin

Small village at the western end of the Val-de-Ruz, on the La Tourne road, a municipality from 1824 and a holiday resort in the early 20th century.

Montpreveyres

Village of the Haut-Jorat on the road from Lausanne to Bern, born from a priory of the canons of the Grand-Saint-Bernard, the « priest's mount ».

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Montreux

Riviera town formed in 1962 by the merger of Le Châtelard and Les Planches, a landmark of Belle Époque tourism and home of the Montreux Jazz Festival.

Montricher

A medieval market town at the foot of the Vaud Jura, born from a castle and become, a thousand years later, a major centre of literature.

Morcles

A hamlet perched at 1160 metres above sea level, formerly an independent municipality, which gave its name to the Dents de Morcles massif before merging with Lavey in 1852.

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Morges

Savoyard new town founded in 1286 by Louis I of Savoy around its castle, a Bernese port on Lake Geneva and home to lakeshore settlements on the World Heritage List.

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Mormont

Limestone hill and archaeological site between Eclépens and La Sarraz, mainly belonging to the municipality of Eclépens, known for its Helvetian sanctuary and its quarries.

Morrens

Village in the Gros-de-Vaud north of Lausanne, mentioned from 1147, former lordship of the Saussure family and birthplace of Major Davel.

Môtiers

Val-de-Travers village that grew up around the priory of Saint-Pierre, former district capital and place of exile of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, today in the municipality of Val-de-Travers (merger of 1 January 2009).

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Moudon

Former capital of Savoyard Vaud on the Broye, heir to the Roman vicus of Minnodunum, whose liberties of 1285 served as a model for the other towns of Vaud.

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Moulins souterrains du Col-des-Roches

Mills built in the 17th century in the cave where the Bied disappears, at the Col-des-Roches, in the municipality of Le Locle, now a museum and a cultural property of national significance.

Mur (VD)

A Vaud village on the shore of Lake Morat, split in two by the cantonal border with Fribourg.

Mutrux

Small farming village at the foot of the north-eastern slope of the Mont Aubert, away from the main routes, whose name evokes a «small church».

Naz

A small village in the Gros-de-Vaud historically linked to the castellany of Dommartin, merged in 2011 into the municipality of Montilliez.

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Neuchâtel

Capital of the canton, born from a royal "new castle" mentioned in 1011, a chartered town from 1214 and the first French-speaking Protestant capital.

Neyruz-sur-Moudon

Former farming village in the Gros-de-Vaud, mentioned as early as 1147, known for having given its name to a type of Early Bronze Age axe, and which became in 2013 one of the nine villages of the municipality of Montanaire.

Noiraigue

Village of the « black water » at the foot of La Clusette, former staging post on the road to France and home of nail forges and cement works, today part of the municipality of Val-de-Travers (merger of 1 January 2009).

Novalles

Small farming village on the plateau overlooking the left bank of the Arnon, attested in 1179, one of the smallest municipalities in the canton.

Noville

Municipality in the Rhône plain near the river's mouth in Lake Geneva, made up of the village of Noville and the hamlet of Crebelley.

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Nyon

Former Roman colony founded by Julius Caesar around 45 BC, a Savoyard town crowned by its castle, now home to UEFA and the Paléo Festival.

Ogens

Street village in the Gros-de-Vaud overlooking the Mentue, mentioned from 1166, known for the prehistoric rock shelter of La Baume, one of the canton's Mesolithic sites.

Oleyres

A street-village perched on the hill overlooking the Broye plain, on the borders of the cantons of Vaud and Fribourg, which kept its nickname of the Foxes (Renards) until its merger with Avenches.

Ollon

Large commune of the Vaud Chablais, from the vineyards of the Rhône plain to the Chamossaire, with a rich prehistoric past at Saint-Triphon and including the resort of Villars-Chesières.

Onnens

Farming and wine-growing village between the Mont-Aubert and Lake Neuchâtel, whose soil has yielded ten thousand years of human settlement and the oldest known burial in the canton of Vaud.

Oppens

Small farming village in the Gros-de-Vaud, in the little valley of the Sauteruz, with its hamlet of La Tuilière, born from a former tile works.

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Orbe

Small town in northern Vaud perched above the river of the same name, known for the Roman mosaics of Boscéaz, a former common bailiwick of Bern and Fribourg and birthplace of the reformer Pierre Viret.

Orges

Farming village on a plateau overlooking Lake Neuchâtel, between the Arnon and Brinaz valleys, an independent municipality since it separated from Vugelles-La-Mothe in 1849.

Ormont-Dessous

Municipality in the Aigle district in the central part of the Grande-Eau valley, with the villages of Le Sépey and La Forclaz and the resort of Les Mosses.

Ormont-Dessus

Municipality of scattered settlement in the upper Grande-Eau valley, with Vers-l'Eglise as its seat and the resort of Les Diablerets.

Orny

A village where the Nozon valley opens onto the Orbe plain, rich in Roman remains and known for the stone spire of its church of Notre-Dame.

Oron-la-Ville

The former district capital of Oron, at the foot of the medieval château that gave its name to the whole region.

Oron-le-Châtel

The village at the foot of the famous medieval château, administratively separated from Oron-la-Ville in 1803 to become an independent municipality until the 2012 merger.

Orzens

Village perched on the wooded hills overlooking the left bank of the Mentue, with its small castle rebuilt in the early 18th century and its hamlet of Champs-Plats.

Oulens-sous-Echallens

Farming and residential village in the Gros-de-Vaud, near Echallens, with a Romanesque church and a parish founded by the abbey of Montbenoît.

Oulens-sur-Lucens

Former farming village of the Vaud Broye region, on the left bank of the Broye, renowned for its tobacco cultivation and its old mill, incorporated into the municipality of Lucens since 2011.

Pailly

Farming village in the Gros-de-Vaud, above the Sauteruz, once the centre of the small lordship of Bourjod, whose castle survives only as ruins.

Palézieux

Former medieval fortified market town that became one of the most important railway hubs in the canton of Vaud, today a village of the municipality of Oron.

Pampigny

Former farming and wine-growing village at the foot of the Vaud Jura, formerly an independent commune, which in 2021 became a locality of the commune of Hautemorges.

Panex

Hamlet in the municipality of Ollon, on the slopes above the town, known for its salt spring worked from 1554 to 1832.

Paudex

Tiny municipality of 49 hectares on the shore of Lake Geneva, between Pully and Lutry, long a wine-growing place and known for the Paudèze coal mines.

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Payerne

Broye town that grew up around a 10th-century Cluniac monastery, whose Romanesque abbey church dominates the old town, and linked to the memory of Queen Bertha.

Peney

Hamlet in the municipality of Vuitebœuf, former centre of a vast medieval parish whose church of Saint-Pierre survives in its bell tower.

Peney-le-Jorat

Former village in the central Jorat, born from a Cistercian monastic grange, today a hamlet of the municipality of Jorat-Menthue.

Penthalaz

Gros-de-Vaud village on the left bank of the Venoge, at the foot of Cossonay, which became an industrial hub thanks to the station, the funicular and the cable works.

Penthaz

Gros-de-Vaud village on the left bank of the Venoge, once crossed by the Roman road from Lausanne to Orbe, home to the archive centre of the Cinémathèque suisse.

Penthéréaz

Farming village in the Gros-de-Vaud, formerly part of the lordship of Echallens and of the common bailiwick of Orbe-Echallens, specialised in growing endives.

Perreux

Locality in the municipality of Boudry, home since 1894 of the cantonal institution for incurables that became a psychiatric hospital, and of a federal asylum centre.

Perroy

Wine-growing village at the top of a slope overlooking Lake Geneva, recorded from 910, with a Benedictine priory dependent on Tournus, its church of Notre-Dame and its castle.

Peseux

Former village of winegrowers and farmers on the edge of Neuchâtel, known for its 16th-century castle and since 2021 a residential locality of the municipality of Neuchâtel.

Peyres-Possens

Former village of the central Jorat, born from the union of two hamlets, Peyres and Possens, which became an independent municipality before joining Montanaire in 2013.

Pizy

Former winegrowing and rural village at the foot of the Jura, merged with Aubonne in 2011 after more than eight centuries of separate existence.

Poliez-le-Grand

A village in the Gros-de-Vaud, merged in 2011 into the municipality of Montilliez.

Poliez-Pittet

Farming village in the Gros-de-Vaud on the left bank of the Mentue, built near a Gallo-Roman settlement, religiously mixed after the Reformation and known for its clock tower, the «turlet».

Pompaples

A village at the foot of the Jura nicknamed the «middle of the world», where the waters divide at the Bornu mill between the Rhine and the Rhône, and home to the Saint-Loup hospital.

Pomy

Village on a molasse plateau south-east of Yverdon-les-Bains, whose name and coat of arms evoke the apple tree, now a residential municipality.

Prahins

A small Vaud street-village born of seven scattered fiefs, today a historic hamlet of the municipality of Donneloye.

Prangins

Municipality of La Côte on the terrace overlooking the entrance to the Petit-Lac, a former seat of lordship whose 18th-century castle houses the French-speaking branch of the Swiss National Museum.

Premier

Staging-post village at the foot of the Jura between Romainmôtier and Vaulion, former land of the convent of Romainmôtier, rebuilt after the fires of 1884 and 1898.

Préverenges

A fishing village turned lakeside resort municipality on Lac Léman, with one of the region's oldest known villages beneath its waters.

Prévonloup

Small farming village on the right bank of the Broye, between Lucens and Romont, which belonged to the Bishop of Lausanne in the Middle Ages.

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Prieuré Saint-Pierre de Môtiers

Former priory of Saint-Pierre at Môtiers, in the municipality of Val-de-Travers (former municipality of Môtiers), founded between 909 and 1032 and secularised in 1537.

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Prilly

Former village on the western edge of Lausanne that grew in a century from a few hundred inhabitants into a town, known for the Cery psychiatric hospital.

Promenthoux

A lakeside hamlet on the shores of Lake Geneva, once home to a noble family and the birthplace of printing in the Vaud, today a mere locality of the municipality of Prangins.

Provence

Village at the foot of Mont Aubert, attested in 1340, whose vast territory stretches to the Creux-du-Van, a former métralie with Mutrux and the childhood home of Brother Roger, founder of Taizé.

Puidoux

Large Lavaux municipality stretching from the Dézaley to the Lac de Bret and the Mont-Chesau, separated from Saint-Saphorin in 1810.

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Pully

Residential town on Lake Geneva at the gateway to Lavaux, which keeps a Roman villa decorated with a chariot-race painting and where the writer C. F. Ramuz lived.

Rances

Village on a plateau overlooking the Mujon valley, at the foot of the Suchet, rich in prehistoric archaeological sites and once the seat of a Bernese court of justice.

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Renens

Former farming village west of Lausanne that became a working-class railway town thanks to the marshalling yard of 1876, now the canton's fourth-largest town.

Rennaz

Village in the Rhône plain near Villeneuve, home to the Grand-Clos castle and, since 2019, to the Riviera-Chablais hospital.

Ressudens

Farming hamlet in the municipality of Grandcour, a former parish centre with the Gothic church of Notre-Dame and its frescoes of 1376.

Reverolle

A small wine-growing village at the foot of the Vaud Jura, mentioned as early as 1177 under the spiritual dependency of the Grand-Saint-Bernard, the last piece of a puzzle of six municipalities united in 2021 within the municipality of Hautemorges.

Riex

A wine-growing village at the heart of Lavaux, overlooked by the Tour de Gourze and listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site

Rivaz

Wine-growing village on Lake Geneva, in the heart of Lavaux, and the smallest municipality in the canton of Vaud by area (32 ha).

Roche

Village at the foot of the Mont d'Arvel, on the Eau Froide, once the depot of the Bernese salt works and home to the Swiss Organ Museum.

Rochefort

Municipality in the district of Boudry, at the crossroads of the Colombier-Le Locle and Neuchâtel-Pontarlier roads, which grew up around a now ruined castle and is home to the Mousterian cave of Cotencher.

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Rolle

The last new town founded by Savoy in the Pays de Vaud, on Lake Geneva, birthplace of Frédéric-César de La Harpe and home of the Institut Le Rosey.

Romainmôtier

Cradle of monasticism in Switzerland: village born around the country's oldest abbey, united with Envy since 1970 within the commune of Romainmôtier-Envy.

Romairon

A small farming hamlet in the Vaud Jura, between the Chasseron and the Mont Aubert, which joined with three neighbouring villages to form the municipality of Tévenon in 2011.

Roman

Hamlet of the municipality of Lonay above Morges, attested in 1198, with an early medieval cemetery and the former chapel of Saint-Maurice.

Romanel-sur-Lausanne

Former street village on the road to Echallens, once dependent on the chapter of Lausanne, known for its alkaline spring « la Providence ».

Romanel-sur-Morges

Village on the right bank of the Venoge, mentioned from 967, which since the 1960s has become a residential and industrial location around the Moulin du Choc.

Ropraz

Village in the Jorat, recorded from 1234, long a seigneury of the Clavel family, now a residential commune that retains some farming.

Rosières

Hamlet in the municipality of Val-de-Travers, formerly in the former municipality of Noiraigue, three times made a lordship dependent on that of Travers.

Rossenges

One of the smallest communes in Vaud, formed by the hamlets of Rossenges and L'Abbaye above the Bressonne, separated from Moudon in 1749.

Rossens

A small farming village perched on a ridge overlooking the Broye valley, a former seigneury of the bishopric of Lausanne, today a hamlet of the municipality of Villarzel.

Rossinière

Village of the Pays-d'Enhaut in the Sarine valley, known for its 18th-century Grand Chalet, one of the largest in Switzerland.

Rougemont

Village of the Pays-d'Enhaut that grew up around an 11th-century Cluniac priory, whose Romanesque church of Saint-Nicolas and Bernese castle of 1572 still dominate the village.

Rovray

Farming village on a plateau above Yvonand and the south-eastern shore of Lake Neuchâtel, once part of the lordship of Saint-Martin-du-Chêne, united with Arrissoules since 2005.

Rueyres

Small farming village in the north of the Gros-de-Vaud, long part of the lordship of Bercher, whose name evokes an oak wood.

Saint-Aubin-Sauges

Economic centre and former main town of the Béroche, formed in 1888 by the union of Saint-Aubin and Sauges, between vineyards and Lake Neuchâtel.

Saint-Barthélemy

Formerly Goumoens-le-Châtel, a Gros-de-Vaud village dominated by the castle of the lords of Goumoëns attested in 1097, with a parish long shared between Catholics and Reformed.

Saint-Blaise

Former wine-growing village at the foot of Chaumont, which grew up around the mills of the Ruau and became a locality of the municipality of Laténa in 2025.

Saint-Cergue

Jura village on the road over the Col de la Givrine, a former castle town of the lords of Thoire-Villars that became a tourist and winter sports resort.

Saint-Christophe

A medieval parish hamlet that became a seigneurial manor house, today an agricultural place name in the municipality of Champvent, in the Jura-Nord vaudois.

Saint-Cierges

Former village on the Jorat plateau, between the Broye and the Mentue, whose parish church served several neighboring villages; today one of the nine villages of the municipality of Montanaire.

Saint-George

Village at the foot of the Jura on the road to the Col du Marchairuz, which grew up around a church and a Benedictine priory dedicated to Saint George, long devoted to livestock farming and woodworking.

Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz

Former wine-growing and residential village on the Vaud hillside above Vevey, on the slope of the Pléiades, now part of the municipality of Blonay-Saint-Légier.

Saint-Livres

Compact village on the crest of a slope on the left bank of the Aubonne, named after Pope Saint Liberius, among vineyards, fields and forests.

Saint-Maurice (Champagne)

Hamlet in the municipality of Champagne, in northern Vaud, around the parish church recorded in 1228, seat of one of the four Reformed parishes of the bailiwick of Grandson.

Saint-Oyens

Small farming village between the La Côte vineyards and the Jura, which grew up around an oratory of the abbey of Saint-Claude and is due to join the municipality of Gimel on 1 January 2027.

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Saint-Prex

Fortified small town on Lake Geneva, rebuilt in 1234 by the chapter of Lausanne, named after Saint Protasius, bishop of Lausanne, buried here in the 7th century.

Saint-Saphorin (Lavaux)

Wine-growing village in Lavaux built around a church raised on a Gallo-Roman site, with the hamlets of Glérolles, Les Faverges, Ogoz and Lignières.

Saint-Saphorin-sur-Morges

A former winegrowing and farming village in the district of Morges, around an 18th-century château that passed to the family of the inventor of Velcro.

Saint-Sulpice

Val-de-Travers village at the entrance to the Areuse gorge, near the source of the river, whose water has driven mills and factories since the Middle Ages, today in the municipality of Val-de-Travers (merger of 1 January 2009).

Saint-Sulpice

Municipality in the Ouest lausannois district on the shore of Lake Geneva, between the Venoge and the Chamberonne, which grew up around a Romanesque church and a small priory of Molesme Abbey.

Saint-Triphon

Village in the municipality of Ollon, on three hills overlooking the Rhône plain, famous for its medieval tower, its archaeological site and its black marble quarries.

Sainte-Croix

Small town in the Vaud Jura at the foot of the Chasseron, a former lordship of the Grandson family, which became the capital of the music box and of precision mechanics.

Salavaux

Village in the municipality of Vully-les-Lacs, a crossroads at the foot of the Vully and at the southern end of Lake Morat, formerly divided between Bellerive and Constantine.

Sarzens

Former agricultural village of the Vaud Broye, rebuilt after a major fire in 1846, known for having been the only Swiss municipality to vote in favour of the unconditional basic income in 2016, part of the municipality of Lucens since 2017.

Sassel

Former Vaud village of the Broye region, once dependent on the abbey of Payerne, incorporated into the municipality of Valbroye since 2011.

Saubraz

A small wine-growing and farming village at the foot of the Vaud Jura, between a Roman cupmarked stone and a communal bread oven still in service, on the verge of losing its municipal independence.

Sauges

Hamlet of the Béroche next to the Port-Conty lakeside settlement, former municipality united with Saint-Aubin in 1888, today in the municipality of La Grande Béroche.

Saules

Small farming village in the Val-de-Ruz at the foot of Chaumont, recorded from 1269, where a Roman villa was discovered in 1989.

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Saut du Doubs

27-metre waterfall of the Doubs on the French-Swiss border at the end of the Lac des Brenets, on the territory of the municipality of Le Locle (former municipality of Les Brenets).

Savagnier

Val-de-Ruz village on the Seyon, made up of Grand-Savagnier and Petit-Savagnier, below the slope of Chaumont.

Savigny

Municipality of scattered hamlets between Lavaux and the Jorat, at over 900 m, born in 1823 when the farmers of the plateau separated from Lutry.

Sédeilles

A modest farming village in the Vaud Jura-Nord, built on the remains of a Roman settlement and attached since 2006 to the municipality of Villarzel.

Seigneux

A village of the Vaud Broye region attested since the 13th century, once under the oversight of the Bishopric of Lausanne, today a hamlet of the municipality of Valbroye.

Senarclens

Village on the Vaud plateau with the hamlet of Soveillame, cradle of a noble family of the same name, rich in Gallo-Roman and medieval remains.

Sergey

Small farming village at the foot of Mont Suchet near Orbe, recorded since 1321, whose communal bread oven still works and whose inhabitants are nicknamed the «Ours» (bears).

Serrières

Former industrial village at the mouth of the short Serrière valley, cradle of the paper mills and of Suchard chocolate, now a district of Neuchâtel.

Servion

Village of the eastern Jorat recorded since 1147, long a farming community, which became famous for its zoo, its Revue and its Café-théâtre Barnabé.

Sévery

Former farming village at the foot of the Vaud Jura, known for its still-operating walnut oil mill and its 18th-century manor house, now part of the commune of Hautemorges.

Signy-Avenex

Small municipality made up of the villages of Signy and Avenex, on the «Balcon de la Petite Côte» above Nyon, once crossed by the Roman aqueduct that supplied Nyon.

NE · Site

La Tène site

Archaeological type site of the European later Iron Age, at the mouth of the Thielle in Lake Neuchâtel, in the municipality of Laténa.

Sottens

Former village on the Jorat plateau, known worldwide for having housed the national transmitter of Swiss radio for eight decades.

Souaillon

Wine estate between Saint-Blaise and Cornaux, built from 1718 for Pierre de Chambrier, in the municipality of Cornaux.

NE · Site

Source de l'Areuse

Vauclusian spring of the Areuse at La Doux, near Saint-Sulpice, in the municipality of Val-de-Travers (former municipality of Saint-Sulpice), cradle of a long history of water power.

Suchy

Farming and forestry village on a terrace overlooking the Orbe plain, recorded since 885, whose inhabitants were freed from mortmain in 1367.

Sugnens

A village in the Gros-de-Vaud mentioned as early as 1177 in a papal bull, merged in 2011 into the municipality of Montilliez.

Sullens

Gros-de-Vaud village on the road from Lausanne to Cossonay, a former lordship of the Bernese bailiwick of Morges that has become a residential municipality of the Lausanne agglomeration.

Suscévaz

Farming village on a hill at the foot of Mont de Chamblon, between Yverdon-les-Bains and Orbe, recorded since 1140 and due to merge with Mathod in 2027.

Syens

Small rural municipality south of Moudon, made up of the village of Syens and the hamlet of Bressonnaz, a former seigneury and a parish since the 13th century.

Tannay

Terre Sainte village clustered on a terrace above Lake Geneva, between Geneva and Nyon, with a castle of 1649 now used as a municipal building and a marina.

Tartegnin

Small wine-growing village of La Côte, above Rolle, recorded from 1018 and long part of the lordship of Mont-le-Vieux.

Territet

Locality of the municipality of Montreux on Lake Geneva, a former hamlet of Les Planches that became a centre of Belle Époque hotel-keeping in the 19th century.

Thielle

Hamlet on the Thielle river, former seat of the court of the castellany of Thielle and site of an important toll, now a locality of the municipality of Laténa.

Thierrens

Agricultural village in the Gros-de-Vaud region mentioned as early as the beginning of the 11th century, former independent municipality that became in 2013 the chief town of the new municipality of Montanaire, which it forms together with eight other villages.

Tolochenaz

A village next to Morges on Lake Geneva, inhabited since the Neolithic, land of the Lausanne cathedral chapter in the Middle Ages, where Ignacy Jan Paderewski and Audrey Hepburn lived.

Travers

Former seat of a lordship created in 1413, village on the Areuse known for its La Presta asphalt mine, today part of the municipality of Val-de-Travers (merger of 1 January 2009).

Trélex

Compact village at the foot of the Jura, on the road from Nyon to Saint-Cergue, once a relay for the Paris stagecoach over the Col de la Givrine.

Trey

Street village in the Broye valley, between Payerne and the Fribourg border, inhabited since prehistory and long known for its Cornamusaz institute.

Treycovagnes

Street village in the Orbe plain between Yverdon-les-Bains and Orbe, a former parish attached to Yverdon, long agricultural and now a residential municipality of the Yverdon agglomeration.

Treytorrens

Farming village in the Broye area on the left bank of the Petite-Glâne, formed around a 13th-century fortified house and home to a Gothic church of national importance.

Treytorrens (Puidoux)

Wine-growing hamlet on Lake Geneva, at the foot of the Dézaley, in the municipality of Puidoux.

Trois-Rods

Hamlet in the municipality of Boudry at the mouth of the Areuse gorges, inhabited since the 16th century and overlooked by the château of Jean-Frédéric de Pierre (around 1768).

Ursins

Farming village between the Orbe plain and the Menthue valley, an important Gallo-Roman religious centre, whose Saint-Nicolas church stands on an ancient temple.

NE · Town

Valangin

A fortified market town nestled at the foot of its medieval castle, former capital of a lordship in the canton of Neuchâtel.

Valeyres-sous-Montagny

Village on the Brinaz, north-west of Yverdon-les-Bains, long agricultural at the foot of the ruins of Montagny castle, which since the 1980s has become a residential municipality of the Yverdon agglomeration.

Valeyres-sous-Rances

Wine-growing and farming village on the slopes above the Orbe plain, a country retreat of Bernese patrician families, with a Romanesque chapel and two manor houses.

Valeyres-sous-Ursins

Small farming village south-east of Yverdon-les-Bains, between the Buron and the Niauque, recorded since the 12th century and long tied to the lordship of Belmont.

Vallamand

Former wine-growing village of the Vully, on the shore of Lake Morat, split between Vallamand-Dessus and Vallamand-Dessous.

Vallorbe

Industrial village at the foot of the Mont d'Or, born of a priory of Romainmôtier, forged by metalworking and turned into an international border station on the Simplon line.

Vaugondry

A farming hamlet at the foot of the Vaud Jura, overlooking Lake Neuchâtel, a former municipality merged into Tévenon in 2011.

Vaulion

Street village of the Jura-Nord vaudois, born at the end of the 11th century from a refuge of serfs placed under the protection of the priory of Romainmôtier, at the foot of the Dent de Vaulion and near the springs of the Nozon.

Vaumarcus

Border village of the Béroche on Lake Neuchâtel near the Vaud boundary, overlooked by the castle of the former barony of Vaumarcus.

Vaux-sur-Morges

Small farming and wine-growing municipality on the left bank of the Morges, formed in 1798 by the union of the hamlets of Grand-Vaux and Petit-Vaux.

Vernéaz

Small hamlet above Vaumarcus on the Vaud border, recorded from 1194 and tied since 1306 to the fortunes of the lordship of Vaumarcus.

Vers-chez-Perrin

Hamlet in the south of the municipality of Payerne, at the heart of the former « Villages d'en-haut », with a school recorded from 1691 and a church of 1925-1926.

Vers-l'Église

Main village of the municipality of Ormont-Dessus, a small settlement grouped around the former chapel of Saint-Théodule, which became the parish church.

VD · Town

Vevey

Town on the Vaud Riviera that grew from a Roman vicus on the Great St Bernard road, home of the Fête des Vignerons since 1797 and headquarters of Nestlé.

Veytaux

The small commune that stayed independent in 1961, on whose territory stands Chillon Castle.

Vich

Village on the banks of the Serine, on the old Vy de l'Etraz, with its church of Saint-Martin given to the abbey of Bonmont in the 12th century and its hamlet of Clarens.

Vilars

Small farming village in the Val-de-Ruz between Fenin and Saules, recorded from 1191, which housed the shared school and administration of the three villages.

Villard-sur-Chamby

Residential hamlet in the heights of the municipality of Montreux, between 1'000 and 1'300 metres above sea level, in the Vallon de Villard.

Villaret

Hamlet in the municipality of Belmont-sur-Yverdon, recorded from 1164, a former small community made a noble fief in 1477.

Villars-Bozon

Village of the municipality of L'Isle at the foot of the Jura, united with L'Isle in 1889 and served since 1896 by the Bière-Apples-Morges line.

Villars-Bramard

Small farming village of the Vaud Broye region, without its own church, which depended on the Bishopric of Lausanne and then on Berne before merging into Valbroye in 2011.

Villars-Burquin

A former village of the Vaud Pied-de-la-Côte, long known locally as « Chez le Roy », which was the seat of the region's parish life before merging in 2011 to form the municipality of Tévenon.

Villars-Epeney

Small farming hamlet of a dozen houses on a wooded hill east of Yverdon-les-Bains, former land of Hautcrêt Abbey, made a municipality by Bern in 1765.

Villars-le-Comte

Farming village on the plateau between Lucens and Thierrens, former land of the Bishop of Lausanne, mentioned since 1147.

Villars-le-Grand

Former village of the Vaud Vully, on the shore of Lake Morat, united with Chabrey until the 15th century.

Villars-le-Terroir

Gros-de-Vaud village north of Échallens, formerly part of the common bailiwick of Orbe-Échallens, with the hamlets of Grand Buron, Petit Buron and Montandrey.

Villars-Lussery

Former Vaud village in the Gros-de-Vaud, historical twin of Lussery, united with it since 1999 within the commune of Lussery-Villars.

Villars-Mendraz

A former village of the Vaud Jorat, born from a medieval clearing under monastic influence, today a hamlet of the municipality of Jorat-Menthue.

Villars-Sainte-Croix

Small municipality in the Ouest lausannois district, once the site of a hospice of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, transformed by the A1 motorway into a residential and industrial municipality.

Villars-sous-Champvent

A modest hamlet at the foot of the Jura, built on the traces of a Roman villa and attached since 2012 to the municipality of Champvent.

Villars-sous-Yens

Small farming village next to Yens, whose Saint-Bernard chapel belonged in the Middle Ages to the hospice of the Great St Bernard.

Villars-sur-Ollon

Former mountain hamlet of the municipality of Ollon, attested in 1316, which became the resort of Villars-Chesières together with Chesières.

Villars-Tiercelin

Former village of the Jorat, known since the Middle Ages as a dependency of the châtellenie of Dommartin, today one of the five villages of the municipality of Jorat-Menthue.

Villarzel

Former castle town of the Bishop of Lausanne on the hills above the right bank of the Broye, whose castle tower survives; since 2006 the municipality also includes Rossens and Sédeilles.

VD · Town

Villeneuve

The first new town founded by Savoy in the region, around 1214, at the eastern end of Lake Geneva near Chillon, a stage on the Great St Bernard route.

Villette

A Lavaux wine-growing village on the shore of lac Léman, which gave its name to the old medieval large parish encompassing Cully, Épesses, Grandvaux and Riex, today a hamlet of the municipality of Bourg-en-Lavaux and the heart of the terraced vineyard listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site.