Montreux

A town on the northeastern shore of Lake Geneva at the foot of the Alps, at the fork in the Roman road from Italy over the Simplon Pass where the routes to Aventicum and into Gaul by Besançon separated, which made it an important settlement in the Roman era, and a Roman villa of the second to fourth centuries has been found here. The earliest settlement was a Late Bronze Age village at Baugy. Its mild climate made it a tourist destination from the nineteenth century, and the shore is lined with Belle Époque palaces and hotels.