Lausanne hotels collection

Every night, from ten in the evening until two in the morning, a watchman calls out the hour from the belfry of Lausanne Cathedral, as in the Middle Ages. The cathedral is of molasse, a soft, greenish sandstone that the rain wears away and that stonemasons replace block by block. It is reached from the lower town by the Escaliers du Marché, sheltered under their own roof. Further down, Ouchy opens its quays onto the lake; further up, the forest of Sauvabelin raises a wooden tower above the beeches. At two, the watchman comes down, and the city has no one left to tell it the time.