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City Guide Lausanne : the iPhone application to have all the city on your mobile phone
 A virtual visit at first to plan your stay better. Then, once in the place, a practical, economic and silent guide that “accompanies” the discovery of your hidden side. The Olympic Capital has also been updated with new technologies, and from June 2010 all is revealed thanks to a new free application – City Guide Lausanne – that provides information about the city, the means of transport, the places to visit and the main events. The only thing you need is an iPhone that will let you consult the Lausanne map free of charge and download all the information needed.
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Architecture of the …. learning through the new "Rolex Learning Centre" at the EPFL Polytechnic
 Inaugurated at the end of May, it is the new control room of the Lausanne Polytechnic, also known as EPFL. A multi-functional container that combines rooms and services for students and teachers. Designed by the Japanese architecture studio SANAA (that won the prestigious “Pritzker” Prize), the innovative construction built on the Campus of the EPFL is made up of a series of sinuous parallel structures, that accommodate a library with more than 500,000 texts and volumes, work and study areas and rooms for meetings and conferences. Complementing this avant-garde centre are cafeteria, cybercafé and restaurant with views of the lake and the mountains.
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New hotel near the Rolex Learning Centre:
Starling Hotel at EPFL****
It is called the Starling Hotel**** and from the second half of April adds prestige to the already consolidated hotel scene of Lausanne. Located in the area of the Polytechnic and the new Rolex Learning Centre, it is in fact the first four-star hotel on the west side of Lausanne and considerably increases the hotel accommodation on offer. It has 154 bedrooms and suites, 5 conference rooms, a lounge bar and restaurant with a terrace overlooking the lake.
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The wonders of Lavaux
Terraces of vines that for 14 kilometres cover the Swiss shore of the Lake Geneva, between Lausanne and the Castle of Chillon, pretty villages basking in the sun dotted here and there and joined together by lanes that can be covered by car, but also by bicycle and on foot. This is the so-called “Lavaux” wine region that has been part of the Unesco World Heritage Site from 2007.
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Lavaux Vinorama
To the many cellars open to the public, where notable “vignerons” retrace the epic story of wines that have grown here since Roman times, in May has been added the Lavaux Vinorama. A centre dedicated to the understanding of wines and the ceremonials of the place told by means of a video that follows the activities over a year, step by step, of a family of wine growers. An introduction for a visit to the internal exhibition of over 300 wines, all to be tasted or purchased.
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Happy Birthday to Elysée Museum!
A quarter of a century though for the Elysée Museum, the temple of photography that is celebrating its 25 years by nominating a new director, Mr Sam Stourdzé. Eight show rooms, a library/boutique, a bibliotheca, a reading room and more than 100,000 enlargements of originals. Its show programme is on an international scale and covers the photographic production of the past and the present in all shapes and forms. The aim of the museum is to make the public aware of the various applications of photography: such as journalism and advertising.
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Future exposition in 2011 :
"Fellini, La Grande Parade"
 The exhibition, Fellini, the Great Parade (June-August 2011), explores the universe of one of the masters of the twentieth century. It reveals the sources that nourished the imagination of the man whose name itself has entered the language, becoming an adjective – Felliniesque. The exhibition breaks away from chronology to instead approach Fellini through his obsessions and concentrate solely on the images, those that inspired him, those he dreamt of and those he produced. Sometimes moving away from the filmography of Fellini, the exhibition Fellini, the Great parade examines in more general terms the twentieth century which was the century he lived through. That is to say the century of cinema of course, but also that of the press, the media, television and advertising: it was in a word, the century of the image, or more precisely, the century of image-making.
Events & Expositions not to be missed
- 09.10.2010-16.01.2011: Exposition "Irving Penn. Small Trades"
- February-May 2011: Exposition " Hans Steiner (1907-1962), a photographer for the century"
- June-August 2011: Exposition "Fellini, la Grande Parade"
- Until10.10.2010: Exposition "Zep – portrait dessiné"
- 03.11.2010 – 13.02.2011: Exposition "Face au mur. Papiers peints contemporains"
- Until 17.10.2010: Exposition "Edward Hopper, 1882-1967"
- 28.01-29.05.2011: Exposition "El modernismo, De Sorolla à Picasso, 1880-1918"
- 31.10.2010: Annual town marathon that winds its way between Lake Geneva and the parks of Lausanne
- 20-28.11.2010: Beaulieu Lausanne
- 26.11-24.12.2010: Christmas market stalls and animation in Place Saint-François
- 18-23.12.2010: The Béjart Ballet Lausanne, created at the end of the eighties by Maurice Béjart, will be staging the shows on the winter play-bill in the setting of the Beaulieu Theatre
- Until 30.01.2010: Exposition "Ataa Oko"
- 25.02-28.08.2011: Exposition "Nannetti, colonel astral"
- Until 01.02.2010: Exposition "Athletes & Science"
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