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Description of Switzerland
Located in central Europe, Switzerland is bordered by Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Italy, and France. A small country, Switzerland's very name conjures up images of chocolates, cheese, watches, bankers, and snow-capped mountains.
Switzerland was inhabited by a Celtic tribe...
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In 1955 the Musée Baud has been opened in Auberson, a small village in the Swiss Jura next to the French border. Near to St. Croix, the place where huge fatcories where producing music boxes for export to all countries of the world, in every house the families where producing parts and pieces for the boxes. The Baud brothers specialized in the repair of mechanical instruments and organs and became collectors of all types of music boxes, automata, clocks, singing birds, animated pictures and gramophones as well as other accessories, tools and souvenirs of the time period. During the guided tours the main instruments are played and children love that museum which is laways crowded when the weather is too bad to walk in the mountains.
Among the highlights include the famous "Maesto", an orchestra from 1900 comprised of 10 different instruments. Also in this room is the splendid "Phonoliszt Violiona" playing solo violin. Many additional discoveries can be found as well, each one more fascinating than the one before. The collection show all types of mechanical instruments, mechanical pianos and huge organs like the "Violano virtuoso», made in Chicago and operating with punched paper. There is also an Edison of 1877 with wax drums.
The website allows to listen to some of the instruments! For opening times consult
http://www.museebaud.ch
Along the Arc of the Jura Mountains from Geneva to Basel, lakes, mountains and valleys lead one into another in a preserved natural environnement, where Swiss watchmakers create the precision movements that tell the time the world over.
Let yourself be charmed by the untamed beauty of Watch Valley, its natural attractions, its lakes, its valleys, its watchmaking museums. A wealth of proposals for excursions await you on foot or on horseback, by bike or by boat.
The journey can start in Geneva (Patek Philippe and others) , passing through the famous Vallée de Joux with its beautiful quiet lake and companies like Breguet and Jaeger le Coultre via Le Locle (Zenith, Tissot and others) and Bienne (Omega, Rolex) and other famous cities and factories.
The landscapes are stunning and there are many museums related to this industry. You can order brochures:
http://www.watchvalley.ch
This city in the Swiss Jura near to the French border is one of the main places in the history of the watch industry. Today companies like Zenith, Ullysse-Nardin and Tissot still have their factories there.
The picture shows the decorated town hall.
In the french speaking part of Switzerland, the region of the lake of Geneva, the BAM train is liaising Morges, Apples and Biere. On weekends they offer gastronomic voyages in historical trains.
In autumn 2006 you can have transport, food and drinks at Fr. 80 per person.
Reservation: MBC Tél. 021 811 43 43
www.lesmbc.ch
You leave at 11h25 in Morges (stop on trains between Lausanne and Geneva) with a train dating from the 1940's and a bar in a railcar from 1895 and you pass close to the big castle of Vufflens le Chateau, the village where Michael Schumacher is still living.
In Apples you will change into a train of of 1925, with restaurant and while having your meal prepaed by the team of the restaurant Couronne d?Apples, you can admire the landscape between Apples and l'Isle. The train returns to Apple where you arrive at 14.55 and from there you can take a regular train back to Morges.
This large village is situated between Lausanne and Yverdon and features the Museum of Bread. It can also be reached by the LEB train from Lausanne-Flon station. On weekends they offer special tours with steam trains and restaurant railcar.
