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Le Flon is Lausanne turned inside out. Where the Cité above is medieval stone stacked on a hilltop, the Flon is a flat, open grid of stern industrial sheds sitting in a valley that was once a river. In the nineteenth century this was the city's goods yard, a plateau of warehouses handling everything that arrived by rail. When the freight trade died in the 1950s the district decayed into a rough, half-forgotten backwater, until artists, clubs and finally a full urban regeneration brought it roaring back to life. Today the same concrete halls hold boutiques, restaurants, rooftop terraces, a multiplex cinema and some of the liveliest nightlife in French-speaking Switzerland. Place de l'Europe, the busy square at its edge, is the hinge where the Grand-Pont's arches, the metro and the pedestrian streets all meet.
Fatti principali
- 55000 m² — The surface of the mostly car-free Flon district, a whole city quarter reclaimed from a rail yard
- 1894 year — The Flon's warehouses were raised in reinforced concrete, a construction method then brand new to Switzerland
- 2008 year — The M2 metro opened under Place de l'Europe, making Lausanne the smallest city in the world with a full metro
📍 Place de l'Europe 5b, 1003, Lausanne