Lausanne Map, Switzerland

If you feel like you need some help to find your way in your destination city, you are in the right place. This Lausanne Map will certainly help you to seek out the best restaurants, clubs and sights in town. You want to know what is the best place for a walk? Or what you should be watching out for during your visit? Learn more about the best things to do in the city reading our travel tips and then get around in Lausanne with Travelgrove's map. While searching for places, you can also check some cheap flights or deals or you can take a look at our user's galleries about the city. We hope you will find our city map of Lausanne useful. Enjoy your trip and come back to share your travel experience about Lausanne!

Lausanne History

Lausanne has been known as a settlement since Paleolithic times but the Romans came there in 15 BC and named the city for the first time, calling it Lousonna. This settlement started relying on trade and grew rather fast, but due to insecurities caused by its location near the waterfront and to the imminent fall of the Roman Empire, the Romans decided to move it more upwards, in an area which is now known as the old... read more

Lausanne Sightseeing

Lausanne is also home to many museums of great importance and originality. The Olympic Museum attracts more than 250.000 visitors a year and it is the world’s larges archive of the Olympic Games. There are also the Cantonal Money Museum where you can find how money was and still is made and how it functioned since the oldest times, as well as the Cantonal Museum of Archeology and History, where you’ll be able to... read more

Lausanne Travel Guide

Lausanne can pride itself with being an important centre for higher education in Switzerland and with the connected fact that some 38% of the population are of foreign origin. The city is also known in most Lausanne travel guides by the fact that it is home to the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee and to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The International Hockey Federation and the International... read more