Parc de Mon Repos | |
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Type | English landscape garden |
Location | Lausanne, Switzerland |
Website | www.lausanne.ch |
The Parc de Mon Repos is a public park of the city of Lausanne, Switzerland.
The villa in the centre of the park hosted the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee from 1922 to 1967. [1]
Lausanne is the capital and largest city of the Swiss French-speaking canton of Vaud. It is a hilly city situated on the shores of Lake Geneva, about halfway between the Jura Mountains and the Alps, and facing the French town of Évian-les-Bains across the lake. Lausanne is located 62 kilometres northeast of Geneva, the nearest major city.
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