Signal de Chexbres - Charlie Chaplin's Grave Attractions

The road along the north bank of Lake Geneva runs via Grandvaux (565 m/1,845ft) and the villages of Riex (450 m/1,476ft) and Epesses to a superb viewpoint, the Signal de Chexbres (655 m/2,149ft), and the health resort of Chexbres (559 m/1,834ft; pop. 1,700) to the vine-growing village of Corsier (445 m/1,460ft; pop. 3,030), which has a fine 12th C. church with a Romanesque tower, the device of the House of Savoy and old bells (1427, 1523). Charlie Chaplin (Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, 1889-1977) is buried here.