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One of the most photographed musicians alive once married in near-total secrecy inside a modest town hall — two witnesses, one interpreter, a wedding the press didn't find out about for ten days. That's Lausanne. It is also the lakeside town of a few hundred thousand people that once decided the borders of modern Turkey.
This self-guided walking tour and audio tour of Lausanne, narrated through the Tourific app, leads you past 20+ stops including a fountain where four rulers kneel before blindfolded Justice and a cathedral tower where a watchman still calls the hours into the dark, unbroken for six hundred years.
Go at your own pace, no fixed start time, resume right where you stopped. Over 25,000 travelers have used our self-guided tours, backed by a full refund guarantee.
For anyone who assumed Lausanne was just a pretty lake town, get ready to be proven wrong.
What's Included
Meeting and pickup
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Itinerary
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1Place de la Palud
Spot the four rulers bowing to Justice on a fountain that isn't quite what it seems.
10 minutes • Admission ticket free -
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Step into the modest hall where a global rock icon married in near-total secrecy.
6 minutes • Admission ticket free -
3
Cross a bridge over a river you'll never see, built by a man who never crossed it.
8 minutes • Admission ticket free -
4Eglise Reformee Saint-Francois
Search the cobblestones for fifty-two golden stars written in a six-year-old's hand.
8 minutes • Admission ticket free -
5Lausanne
Trace the decade a legendary designer spent hiding in plain sight behind this facade.
10 minutes • Admission ticket free -
6
Encounter the legendary marksman whose apple-shot tale may never have happened.
7 minutes • Admission ticket free -
7Casino de Montbenon
Notice the modest hall that once quietly ran the entire Olympic movement.
10 minutes • Admission ticket free -
8Tour de l'Ale
Look up at the lone tower nearly demolished, and its deliberately fake twin across town.
7 minutes • Admission ticket free -
(Pass by)
Piece together the gallery with no permanent collection and the raw art it inspired.
Admission ticket free -
9Palais de Rumine
Decode the treaty signed here that redrew a nation's borders, and the murder that followed.
15 minutes • Admission ticket free -
10Chateau Saint-Maire
Follow the doomed rebel whose trusted allies betrayed him behind these walls.
10 minutes • Admission ticket free -
11
Pass beneath the street where a paralysis-defying breakthrough and an everyday invention both began.
8 minutes • Admission ticket free -
12Lausanne Cathedral
Stand where a nightly cry has rung out unbroken for over six hundred years.
15 minutes • Admission ticket free -
Lausanne History Museum (Pass by)
Compare today's city to a miniature Lausanne frozen centuries in the past.
Admission ticket free -
13Escaliers du Marche
Count the covered steps built wide enough for baskets to pass without stopping.
6 minutes • Admission ticket free -
14
Uncover the bridge that funded itself, and the poet a storm once stranded nearby.
8 minutes • Admission ticket free -
15
Step into the garden where a restless philosopher staged his own plays for local society.
10 minutes • Admission ticket free
Additional info
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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Cancellation Policy
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- If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
- Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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