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The UCI World Cycling Centre is a training and education center and the headquarters of the International Cycling Union (UCI). It was inaugurated in 2002.

Around the middle of the 19th century, there was even talk of writing off Chillon Castle for demolition and using the stones in the construction of the railway. However, the landscape, the grand castle, and the romantic stories of the former prisoners had long captivated many, and interest in the monument's outstanding historical significance was also awakening. And so, more and more travelers visited the castle, which, from the 1820s onward, could also be viewed from the new steamships on Lake Geneva. While Rousseau had already chosen the castle as the setting for a key scene in his 1761 epistolary novel Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse, other writers, such as Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas, were inspired by the place, in addition to Lord Byron. The café next to the castle is now called "Byron." The French painter Gustave Courbet depicted Chillon several times during his stay on Lake Geneva, and Eugène Delacroix, who was influenced by Lord Byron's poems, as well as other artists, also painted views of the moated castle, the image of which became widely known through photography in the age of early tourism.

Nice view for a break

No matter the time, the view is breathtaking.

ideal place to explore the region

nice view of the castle which is worth visiting

In the execution cell, dangling from the rope, you have a great view of the lake for a short time

The Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace, Anna Karenina, The Kreutzer Sonata, etc.) and humanist lived for a long time in the neighboring towns of Montreux in 1857.