Lavaux
Lavaux is internationally famous as a terraced wine-growing region on the shores of Lake Geneva in western Switzerland. It covers the territory roughly from Lausanne to Montreux, extending to an altitude of roughly 500 meters above lake level and including 6 lake shore villages and the city of Vevey.
- Type: region
- Description: region of terraced vineyards in Switzerland
- Also known as: “La Vau”, “Lavau”, “Lavaux vineyards”, “Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces”, “Vegnôblo de La Vâl”, “vignoble de Lavaux”, “αμπελώνες του Λαβώ”, “Виноградники Лаво”, “Террасовые виноградники Лаво”, and “라보 포도원”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Puidoux railway station and Cully railway station.
Mont de Gourze
Peak
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lutry and Puidoux.
Chexbres
Village
Lavaux
Latitude
46.4919° or 46° 29′ 31″ north
Longitude
6.7461° or 6° 44′ 46″ east
Open location code
8FR8FPRW+QC
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arpitan to Vietnamese—“Lavaux” goes by many names.
- Arpitan: “La Vâl”
- Basque: “Lavaux”
- Catalan: “Lavaux”
- Chinese: “拉沃葡萄园梯田”
- Chinese: “拉沃葡萄園梯田”
- Croatian: “Lavaux”
- Czech: “Lavaux”
- Dutch: “Wijngaardterrassen van Lavaux”
- Esperanto: “Lavaux”
- Finnish: “Lavaux”
- French: “Lavaux”
- Galician: “Lavaux”
- Georgian: “ლავო”
- German: “Lavaux”
- Greek: “Λαβώ”
- Hebrew: “לבו”
- Hindi: “लैवॉक्स”
- Hungarian: “Lavaux”
- Italian: “Lavaux”
- Japanese: “ラヴォー”
- Korean: “라보”
- Latin: “Lavaux”
- Lithuanian: “Lavo vynuogynų terasos”
- Maltese: “Lavaux”
- Mingrelian: “ლავო”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lavaux”
- Persian: “لاوو”
- Polish: “Lavaux”
- Portuguese: “Lavaux”
- Romansh: “Lavaux”
- Russian: “Террасные виноградники Лаво”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Terasasti vinogradi Lavauxa”
- Sicilian: “Lavaux”
- Slovak: “Lavaux”
- Spanish: “Lavaux”
- Swedish: “Lavaux”
- Swiss German: “Lavaux”
- Turkish: “Lavaux”
- Ukrainian: “Терасні виноградники Лаво”
- Venetian: “Lavaux”
- Vietnamese: “Lavaux”
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