In Montreux you'll find belle époque architecture. Back in Geneva (at the lake's southernmost shore), you can go swimming at the Pâquis Baths and watch the Jet d'Eau. According to previous ...

British rock band Deep Purple performed the hit track Smoke On The Water on the brand new stage built over Lake Geneva at the Montreux Jazz Festival. As the globally renowned riff for the song ...

The wines Fauve and fellow vintners make in Vaud and other parts of Switzerland don’t travel far. They are greedily consumed at home, with less than one per cent exported. A pilgrimage to the area, ...

Starting in 1967, with practically no knowledge of the music industry, Claude Nobs began turning his sleepy hometown on the shores of Lake Geneva into ... all came out to Montreux.

In Montreux you'll find belle époque architecture. Back in Geneva (at the lake's southernmost shore), you can go swimming at the Pâquis Baths and watch the Jet d'Eau. Straddling the Franco ...

The family-owned winery has been making wine for centuries. Set in what is called the Montreux Riviera on the shores of Lake Geneva, the area features a mosaic of landscapes. There’s the hilly ...

For two weeks every summer in Switzerland, the shores of Lake Geneva metamorphosize into a stage for the Montreux Jazz Festival. Since its inception in 1967 by founder Claude Nobs, the likes of ...

which started in 1967 on the shores of Lake Geneva, and spread across the ocean, most recently to Latin America with the Rio Montreux Jazz Festival in Rio de Janiero in 2019 and then Miami last year.

The number of Spotify plays of Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water” – a Montreux classic. The opportunity of playing on a stage on Lake Geneva was too good to pass up for the English rockers.

Charles Lloyd and more to the Lake Geneva shoreline. The two week-long show was a success, and Montreux Jazz Festival quickly expanded internationally to cities like São Paulo, Singapore ...