Vevey is a resort on Lake Geneva, often called the pearl of the Swiss Riviera. The magnificent buildings from the 19th century blend in with numerous gardens and beautiful Alpine panoramas, and tourists can also visit unusual museums.
The town developed from the 18th century as a fashionable holiday resort. Previously, it was a trading city on the route leading through the Alps to Italy. The flourishing of tourism and the related changes in buildings resulted primarily in the construction of a promenade and numerous eclectic hotels and guesthouses that have survived to this day.
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Vevey hosted the cream of social and artistic life of Europe and the world. For 25 years he lived here, among others Charlie Chaplin, whose monument is today one of the most photographed places in the city. During World War I, in Vevey, Henryk Sienkiewicz and Ignacy Jan Paderewski founded the Swiss General Committee for Aid to War Victims in Poland. Sienkiewicz died in Vevey in 1916, and in 2006 his monument was unveiled here.
Vevey's top attractions include the museums. There is the Swiss Museum of Photography, Alimentariu, the first museum in the world devoted to food and nutrition, the Museum of the Wine Brotherhood, the Jenisch Vevey Museum with a large collection of engravings by, among others Durer or Rembrandt, as well as the modern History Museum.
Tourists coming to the resort spend a large part of their time by the lake. There is a well-developed beach with a bathing area, and you can walk in the Garden by the Sea Coast. At the shore, an unusual fork statue, created by the artists Georges Favre and Jean-Pierre Zaugg, rises from the water. The lake's side-wheeled cruises, which start at the Port of Vevey-Marche, are a big tourist attraction.
