Montreux, Switzerland Photo Gallery
We got a train pass with our hotel room, so took advantage of this with a ride to Montreux, famous for a jazz festival held there each year.
We found another pastry shop, Tea-Room Des Alps, and although good it did not compare to Fripsquare.
An interesting sculpture in Montreux.
Freddie Mercury fell in love with Montreux and decided to settle here. He said, "If you want peace of soul, come to Montreux". A bronze statue of him was placed by the waterfront in 1996.
We've never seen a food truck butcher/meat market.
ALLO CLAUDE-It is an innovative piece of kinetic art, as homage to the renowned founder of the Jazz Festival
The Forum, which is a mall.
We visited this castle near Montreux, Chateau de Chillon. The oldest parts of the castle have not been dated definitively, but the first written record of the castle was in 1005AD.
During his visit in 1816, British poet Lord Byron found inspiration in the story of Chillon inmate François Bonivard, making him the protagonist in his poem The Prisoner of Chillon, which shot the castle to global fame.
A tower at the castle.
We saw this swan and her nest of eggs in the castle moat.
In the castle's front courtyard.
In the prison and storage area. This castle was built on some hard rocks.
A prisoner's drawings.
Brian barely fits through one of the doors.
The wine cellar and storage area.
A road inside the castle.
They had a collection of interesting antique trunks.
The ceiling of the great hall.
One of the bedrooms.
I love this window nook.
Nice shutter details.
The fireplaces were so big that you could stand in them.
They even had latrines that dropped straight to the lake.
Looking out one of the parapets.
Brian found the roof design interesting.
The chapel ceiling.
Some armor and weapons that would have been used in the day of this castle.
Cannons, also.
Inside the castle.
This was a clock.
This is an ornate lock and key.
We climbed to the highest point in the keep where we had this view.
Another view from the keep.
There were a lot of ducks on Lake Geneva.
Montreux's most famous resident, American actor Charlie Chaplin, was so smitten that he spent 25 years at Manoir de Ban during his self-imposed exile in Switzerland.