Neuchatel
Pleasant City
General Information
Common Name: Neuchatel
Other Name: -, District: NA, State: NA, Switzerland
Area: 18.05 km²
Languages Spoken: French
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Importance: Neuchatel is well known for its watch making, vineyards and of being one of five sites of the Expo 02, the sixth Swiss national exhibition held in summer 2002.
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Description
Neuchatel is the capital of the Swiss canton of Neuchatel on Lake Neuchatel.The pleasant city is situated in the middle of vineyards and has a medieval heart.Location
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Neuchatel''s Collegiate church was built in the 12th-13th C.Until 1530, when it was taken over by the Reformed faith, it was the Catholic Collegiale Notre-Dame.On the north side of the church is a Romanesque cloister and from the terrace there are extensive views.
Castle was built in the 15th and 17th centuries. Visit the Salle des Etats (state room) and find out who married into Neuchatel’s ruling dynasty.
From Rue de l''Ecluse, on the edge of Neuchâtel''s old town, a funicular ascends to the Cret du Plan (598 m/1,962ft), from which there are extensive views of the lake and the Alps.
In 1276 this gothic collegiate church was consecrated. It’s a combination of Romanesque and Burgundian Gothic styles. A Gothic tomb from 1372 consists of life-sized figures of the counts of Neuchatel.
Have you ever smelled 80 different fragrances of geraniums or 70 sorts of mints?Then you should come to this place and discover 1500 aromatic and useful cultivated plants.
In the very dark Romanesque choir of Neuchatel''s Collegiate Church is the monument of the Counts of Neuchatel. It has 15 painted effigies and is the finest Gothic memorial in the whole of Switzerland.