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12 unusual facts about Vevey


Bernard Moret

Moret was born in 1953 in Vevey Switzerland, and did his undergraduate studies at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, graduating in 1975.

Berthe Marti

Berthe Marie Marti (Born May 11, 1904 in Vevey, Switzerland - died June 4, 1995 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA) was a Swiss-American scholar and teacher of classical and medieval Latin.

Christopher Chaplin

Christopher James Chaplin (born 6 July 1962 in Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland) is a composer and actor.

E. T. Hooley

With no help available, he spent the next three years travelling throughout Europe, dying in Vevey, Switzerland on 3 August 1903.

Erk Gah

25 August 1976 in Vevey, Switzerland for the Swiss TV program, Kaleidospop (Volume 10: Vevey) – released on the only known video recording of Henry Cow.

Henry Cow discography

The DVD, a 75-minute video of Henry Cow performing in Vevey, Switzerland in August 1976, is the only known video recording of the band.

Marion Roe

She studied at the English School of Languages in Vevey in Switzerland.

Maud Burnett

She was taught at local schools before travelling to Vevey, Switzerland, to complete her education.

Natacha Gachnang

Natacha Gachnang (born 27 October 1987 in Vevey, Switzerland) is a Swiss race driver and the cousin of former Formula One driver Sébastien Buemi.

Paul Juon

He moved to and retired in Switzerland in 1934, and died in Vevey.

Trolleybuses in Montreux/Vevey

Similar vehicles with the type designation AG300T were later supplied to the trolleybus systems in Esslingen am Neckar, Salzburg, Solingen and Arnhem.

Vevay, Indiana

Since 1797, every 22 years, in the Swiss city of Vevey, is celebrated La fête des vignerons The Winegrowers' Festival.


Dillwyn Parrish

On a trip to Switzerland the two purchased "Le Paquis," a cottage in a meadow overlooking Lake Geneva not far from Lausanne between Vevey and Chexbres.

Finghin Collins

He won first prize at the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in Vevey, Switzerland, in 1999, and has performed with many of the world's leading orchestras and conductors.

Françoise-Louise de Warens

She was born in Vevey, into a Swiss Protestant family who had immigrated to Annecy, but became a Roman Catholic in 1726 to receive a church pension which had been instated to increase the spread of Roman Catholicism near Geneva, then a bastion of Protestantism.

Richard H. Bassett

In the Spring of 1911, Bassett moved with his mother, Jessie Lewellin Bassett, to Vevey, Switzerland where he was enrolled in private school and began studies with the Swiss painter, Henri Edouard Bercher, a graduate of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Geneva and a frequent exhibitor of landscapes at the Suisse Salon des Beaux-Arts.

Vevey railway station

The station is also the western terminus of the standard gauge Chemin de fer Vevey-Chexbres to Puidoux-Chexbres on the Olten–Lausanne railway line, and a metre gauge line from Vevey to Blonay and Les Pléiades.