La Chaux-de-Fonds
La Chaux-de-Fonds is a city in Switzerland with an impressive heritage of watch making. has been inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List as "La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle, Watchmaking Town Planning".Places of Interest
Highlights include Centre de documentation et d’étude sur la langue internationale and Villa Jeanneret-Perret.
Centre de documentation et d’étude sur la langue internationale
Library
Photo: DidiWeidmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Centre de documentation et d'étude sur la langue internationale in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, was founded in 1967 by Claude Gacond. It is the main branch of the city's library and contains more than 20,000 bibliographic units.
Villa Jeanneret-Perret
Photo: Chrisaliv, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Villa Jeanneret-Perret is the first independent project by Swiss architect Le Corbusier. Built in 1912 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Charles-Edouard Jeanneret's hometown, it was designed for his parents.
Villa Fallet
Villa Fallet is a traditional chalet located in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland designed and built by the eighteen-year-old Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, who later became better known as Le Corbusier.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Grand’Combe-des-Bois and Les Planchettes.
Grand’Combe-des-Bois
Village
Photo: Pmau, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Grand'Combe-des-Bois is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. Grand’Combe-des-Bois is situated 4½ km northwest of La Chaux-de-Fonds.
Les Planchettes
Village
Photo: JGS25, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Les Planchettes is a municipality in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. Les Planchettes is situated 5 km west of La Chaux-de-Fonds.
La Chaux-de-Fonds
- Type: Locality with 37,500 residents
- Also known as: “CH6421”
- Location: La Chaux-de-Fonds District, Canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
47.1102° or 47° 6′ 37″ northLongitude
6.8334° or 6° 50′ 0″ eastPopulation
37,500Elevation
997 metres (3,271 feet)Open location code
8FV84R6M+39GeoNames ID
7286240
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