LAUSANNE (Switzerland) - Page 3

General Electric · #41 Posted: **May 8, 2012, 12:54 PM**

General Electric · #42 Posted: **May 21, 2012, 8:26 PM**

Av. d'Echallens:

Parc de Valency:

Malley, ch. de Rionza:

General Electric · #43 Posted: **May 27, 2012, 10:02 PM**

General Electric · #44 Posted: **Jun 1, 2012, 9:36 AM**

Click on picture for to see one of the oldest pictures of the world (1868) taken from the same place!

Place du Nord > A la Bossette

General Electric · #45 Posted: **Jun 4, 2012, 4:19 PM**

Av. Louis-Vuillemin

Sphinx du Palais de Rumine

Palais de Rumine

Place de la Palud

2012 Rue Centrale. Click on picture for to see an old picture of the place (1880)

General Electric · #46 Posted: **Jun 5, 2012, 7:57 PM**

Rue Centrale depuis le Pont Bessières

Ancien Hospice Général depuis la Caroline

Rue du Lion-d'Or

Rue Caroline

General Electric · #47 Posted: **Jun 8, 2012, 9:59 PM**

General Electric · #48 Posted: **Jun 13, 2012, 11:14 PM**

St-laurent

Rue de l'Ale

Tour de l'Ale

Place Chauderon

Rue de Genève

General Electric · #49 Posted: **Jun 17, 2012, 11:32 AM**

Métro ou tramway?

Avenue de Provence

Quartier de Prélaz

Quartier de Vennes

General Electric · #50 Posted: **Jun 22, 2012, 9:33 PM**

In southern flank of the Notre Dame Cathedral, the painted portal is a jewel of medieval sculpture (painted between 1225-1235). Old and New Testament frame the Coronation of the Virgin. The originality of the painted doorway is in the (relative) conservation of polychrome decoration and in the modest position of the Virgin, the pride of being made to Christ in Glory. It is through this side entrance that thousands of pilgrims were entering the building, whereas usually it is the main door (the end of the nave) is used. But the number of people visiting the site made an essential travel arrangements inside the cathedral. It took nearly a century of work to restore the painted portal and make it to the public, with protection following the latest architectural techniques. Those responsible for the restoration have decided not to artificially reproduce the entire original polychromy, in part disappeared, but to preserve and strengthen that which remained.

General Electric · #51 Posted: **Jun 25, 2012, 1:54 PM**

stairs of the belfry

the belfry stairs worn by erosion

Beams supporting the bells

One of the bells

Arriving at the top of the belfry

General Electric · #52 Posted: **Jun 28, 2012, 1:00 AM**

Gurgles of cathedral

Saint-François church, hiding the Hotel des Postes

Rue Saint-Laurent and his church, Bel-Air-Métropole tower

Bel-Air tower, Chauderon, Malley, ...

General Electric · #53 Posted: **Jun 29, 2012, 1:35 AM**

Zoom over St-Laurent church

Panorama West

Zoom over Place de la Riponne

Medieval tower in Rue de l'Ale

Zoom over building of Place Chauderon

Bel-Air tower

General Electric · #54 Posted: **Jul 7, 2012, 11:26 AM**

The stairs "Les escaliers du Marché", the bell tower of City Hall, Place de la Riponne, ...

Les escaliers du marché, at background the top of City Hall

Top of City Hall, with one of his original dragon-shaped gargoyles and a piece of building at Place de la Palud

Focus on the gap of "escaliers du Marché", suggesting the Place de la Palud and onlookers watching the animated clock play "moments of joy" of Vaud country

Focus on the east

Focus on the east: la Caroline

General Electric · #55 Posted: **Jul 27, 2012, 6:16 PM**

The roofs of the neighborhood around St-Pierre

Rue Centrale and Le Rôtillon

The MUDAC (museum of design and contemporary applied arts), also called House Gaudard, has a rather unusual story. The building is actually composed of several houses dating from the Middle Ages that were combined over the centuries.

The Ancient hospital

The Old Academy at foreground right, bottom left the Palais de Rumine, behind the residential towers of Valentin and those of Rouvraie, intersected by the Rue de la Borde.

La Cité (middle age city of Lausanne), with the Old Academy (1589), Rue Cité-Devant and the Castle at the bottom (The Château St-Maire is the seat of government of Vaud).

Focus

The southern turret of the the Palais de Rumine

One of the sphinx of Palais de Rumine, giving the impression that he is walking on the roof

General Electric · #56 Posted: **Aug 8, 2012, 7:02 PM**

Victor Hugo: "Lausanne is a block of quaint houses, spread over two or three hills which extend from one central node,
and wearing the cathedral as a tiara. I was on the esplanade of the church, at the gate, so to speak on the head of the city. I saw the
lake above the rooftops, the mountains above the lake, the clouds above the mountains, and stars above the clouds. It was like a
staircase where a thought rose from step to step and became larger at each stage." http://www.lausanne.ch/view.asp?DocId=31772

Lausanne South.

Lausanne South

Lausanne West

Lausanne North, Rue Cité-Devant

Lausanne East

General Electric · #57 Posted: **Aug 21, 2012, 6:36 PM**

The Escaliers du Marché is a covered flight of steps which leads from the cathedral esplanade to Place de la Palud and is lined with a row of old dwellings dating back to the 16th century. The steps were built in the 13th century to connect the two town markets - the Place de la Palud market and the Place du Crêt market (beneath the cathedral). Source

Les escaliers du Marché.

SHiRO · #58 Posted: **Aug 21, 2012, 9:11 PM**

Great pics! Looks really nice. Thanks for posting!

General Electric · #59 Posted: **Aug 23, 2012, 10:11 AM**

The Escaliers du Marché.

Place de la Palud from rue de la Mercerie

Place de la Palud

Rue du Pont

Dragon-shaped gargoyle on the City Hall

Place de la Palud

Rue du Pont

General Electric · #60 Posted: **Aug 29, 2012, 2:33 PM**

North of the Cathedral, the "unfinished tower" (Originally, there had to be two towers belfries)

Pont Bessières from St-Martin

Tattoo at the bottom of Bessières Bridge

Rue Cité-Devant

Rue Cité-Devant. Fossils of molluscs on Rue Cité-Devant. Examine the foot of the building on Rue Cité-Devant just behind the old fountain, and you’ll be able to see fossils of molluscs dating back many millions of years. The fossilised sandstone was extracted north of the Vaud Canton and testifies to the presence far back in time of the vast seas which once covered the whole of the region.(Lausanne Tourisme, Pierre Corajoud)