St-Sulpice - Lausanne

The road along the north bank of Lake Geneva continues through the select residential suburb of St-Sulpice (Romanesque conventual church, 12th C.) to enter Lausanne, capital of the canton of Vaud.

Lausanne, the lively capital of the canton of Vaud, is picturesquely situated on the north shore of Lake Geneva, on terraces rising above the lake which are broken by gorges. It ranks with Geneva as a focus of intellectual life in French-speaking Switzerland (Federal Court, University, College of Technology, Hotel School and many other technical colleges), and is also a popular convention and conference center and the venue of important trade fairs (Comptoir Suisse in Autumn, International Tourism Fair in March).