Ouchy
Ouchy is a port and a popular lakeside resort south of the centre of Lausanne in Switzerland, at the edge of Lake Geneva (French: lac Léman).
Facilities
Very popular with tourists for the views of nearby France (
There is a major cluster of hotels – the
The headquarters of the International Olympic Committee are at Vidy, to the west of Ouchy. The Olympic Museum and the Olympic Park (sculpture garden between the museum and the lake) are in Ouchy.
History
Once a fishing village, Ouchy was incorporated into the city of Lausanne in the mid-19th century to serve as a port on Lake Geneva.
Links between the port and the city centre were improved in 1877 when Switzerland's first
On 18 October 1912, the First Treaty of Lausanne was signed in Ouchy between Italy and the Ottoman Empire, concluding the Italo-Turkish War.
Sport
In Literature
The plot of The Finishing School, a 2004 novel by Scottish author Muriel Spark, is set in 'College Sunrise', a finishing school located in Ouchy. In A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, the two main characters, Lt. Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley, take a cogwheel train into Ouchy to walk along Lake Geneva.
See also
- Compagnie générale de navigation sur le lac Léman
References
- ^ "Chronologie - Site officiel de la Ville de Lausanne" [Timeline - Official site of the City of Lausanne] (in French). City of Lausanne. Archived from the original on 16 July 2014. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
External links
Lausanne travel guide from Wikivoyage
Media related to Ouchy at Wikimedia Commons
