Lausanne Treaty was negotiated at the The Château d'Ouchy[1] and signed at The Palais de Rumine[2], however the official meeting was held in The Beau-Rivage Palace[3] Mavi Boncuk |
[1] The Château d'Ouchy ("Castle of Ouchy") is an old medieval castle of Lausanne (Switzerland) that has since been converted into a hotel.
It was first constructed by the Bishop of Lausanne as a tower on the banks of Lake Léman around 1170. A century later, it was rebuilt and transformed into a fortified residence for bishops, particularly for Guillaume de Varax. It was also used as prison. The castle was abandoned and its tower reduced to ashes in 1609. The canton of Vaud recovered it after the departure of the Berneses and sold off part of the land to Jean-Jacques Mercier in 1885. The new owner radically transformed the castle by demolishing the ruins and old buildings, leaving only the tower. The castle was rebuilt in the neo-gothic style between 1889 and 1893 and converted into a hotel.
[2] The Palais de Rumine is a late 19th-century building in Florentine Renaissance style in Lausanne, Switzerland. On his death, Gabriel de Rumine, son of Russian nobility, left the city of Lausanne 1.5 million Swiss Francs to erect a building for the use of the public.Building began in 1892 according to the design of the Lyonnais architect Gaspard André. The building was inaugurated on the 3 November 1902, although building work continued until 1904.
Palais de Rumine, where the Treaty of Lausanne finalising the break-up of the Ottoman Empire after WWI was signed in 1923, safeguards the city’s fine arts museum. Works by Swiss and foreign artists, ranging from Ancient Egyptian art to Cubism, are displayed, but the core of the collection is made up of works by landscape painter Louis Ducros (1748–1810).
[3] The Beau-Rivage Palace is a historical luxury hotel in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is located at Ouchy, on the shores of Lake Léman.The hotel opened in 1861 and the current main building was constructed in Art Déco and neo-baroque style in 1908.
In 1923 the Treaty of Lausanne was signed at the Beau-Rivage Palace.