Yverdon-les-Bains

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Template:Infobox Swiss town Template:Clearright Yverdon-les-Bains (called Eburodunum during the Roman era) is a town in the Vaud canton of Switzerland, located on the shore of Lake Neuchâtel. It is famous for its thermal springs.

Famous buildings and locations

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• the "Menhirs-Statues", including the stone rows at Clendy, dating as far back as the third millennium BC
• the Castrum, remains of gigantic ramparts and towers from the Roman era
• the thermal springs
• the thirteenth-century castle
• the "Temple", an eighteenth-century Protestant church
• the Grande Caricaie, a nature reserve stretching along the southern shore of Lake Neuchâtel
• the Maison d'Ailleurs (House of Elsewhere), "a museum of science fiction, utopia and extraordinary journeys", founded in 1976 and the only museum of its kind in Europe

Famous residents

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Fortuné-Barthélémy de Félice
• Henri Pestalozzi

External links

• http://www.yverdonlesbains-tourisme.ch/e/home/

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