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7 Musée de la Vigne et du Vin
and Musée International
Aigle de l’Étiquette 200,000
! B5 £ @ n 5 Rue Colomb; " ⌂ Château d’Aigle, 1 Place
du Château § 024 466 21 30
www.aigle-tourisme.ch
# Apr–Jun & Sep–Oct: 11am– The average number of
Aigle is the capital of the 6pm Tue–Sun; Jul–Aug: 11am– people who attend the
Chablais, a wine-growing 6pm daily ∑ museeduvin.ch annual Montreux
region that lies southeast of Jazz Festival.
Lake Geneva and produces
some of Switzerland’s best 8
wines. Set among vineyards
covering the foothills of the Montreux Opposite this hotel is the
Alpes Vaudoises, the town is ! B5 £ @ n 5 Rue du Centre des Congrès, con-
dominated by the turreted Théâtre ∑ montreux taining the Auditorium
Château d’Aigle. Built in the riviera.com Stravinsky, a concert hall built
12th century by the Savoyards, in 1990 and dedicated to Igor
it was severely damaged in The jewel of the Swiss Riviera, Stravinsky (1882–1971), who
the 15th century and later Montreux is renowned for its composed The Rite of Spring
rebuilt as the residence of annual jazz festival. The town while in Montreux.
the region’s bailiffs. began to develop as an inter- On the lakeshore is a statue
The castle now houses the national tourist resort in of Freddie Mercury, vocalist in
Musée de la Vigne et du Vin, about 1815, and its golden the band Queen, who made
whose exhibits illustrate the age lasted until the outbreak Montreux his second home.
age-old methods of vine of World War I in 1914.
cultivation and winemaking. Montreux has many belle
Opposite this museum is époque hotels. The most 9
the Musée International de famous of them is the
l’Etiquette, which documents Montreux Palace on Grand Les Diablerets
the history of wine labels. Rue, west of the town centre.
! B5 £ @ n Rue de la Gare;
www.diablerets.ch
Set among alpine meadows
in the Ormonts valley, the
ski resort of Les Diablerets
lies at an altitude of 1,150 m
(3,775 ft). The peaks here are
3,210 m (10,531 ft) high and
amid them lies the glacier of
the same name.
Attractions include the
Alpine Coaster, the world’s
highest bobsleigh on rails,
and the Monster Snowpark,
for skilled freestyle skiers and
snowboarders. There’s also
the narrow Peak Walk – the
world’s first sus pension bridge
to link two mountain peaks,
the Scex Rouge and Glacier
3000. At 2,987 m (9,800 ft)
above sea level, it is also the
second-highest suspen sion
bridge in the world after Titlis
Cliff Walk in Obwalden. The
platform offers stunning views
of the Alps.

The turreted Château d’Aigle,
now a museum of wine
and winemaking
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