View of Lake Geneva with historic paddle steamer

You must have made the path along the lake from Epesses to Cully. In Cully there are nice restaurants to stay.

January 24, 1798January 24: commemoration of Vaudois independenceThe date of January 24th corresponds to the day during which, in 1798, occurred the events which brought its independence to the Pays de Vaud, then subject of the Bernese.In December 1797 the Directory placed the Pays de Vaud under the protection of France. On January 23, 1798, General Ménard invited the Vaudois to liberation. With this support, an assembly of city delegates, meeting in Lausanne with the first idea of ​​entering into discussion with the Bernese, took the step of independence. The bailiffs were fired.The first steps of this independence were made under the aegis of a Swiss republic of French conception. Vaud became a canton in the true sense of the term only in 1803: April 14, another significant date in the history of Vaud.