Lausanne (Switzerland)

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An historical library by way of a hallmark. This human-sized Eastern Swiss metropolis has a delightful, traffic-free Old Town. Its hallmark is the Cathedral with its Foundation Library containing valuable, partly hand-written documents over a thousand years old. The whole foundation area was, in 1983, declared a World Cultural Heritage. Of particular note in the Old Town are the many 16th to 18th century bourgeois homes with their splendid and often brightly painted bay windows.