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Lausanne has the very confusing topography in the map but not hard to crack. The top of Lausanne has the old town, the middle have the train station and commercial districts and the bottom is one time fishing valley of Ouchy, now the prime territory for waterfront strolling and café-lounging. But the gradients between them all are no joke: the peak of Mont Jorat, only 10km northeast of the city, rises to 927m; just north of the Old Town is a viewpoint at 643m; the central districts are ranged around 475m; while residential neighbourhoods slide on down for another kilometre to the lakeshore at 372m. The hub of bus routes and the heart of the shopping centre, the grand Place St-Francois is the centre of city. Gilt-edged Rue de Bourg entices shopper’s uphill from St-François, while beside it Rue St-François drops down north into the valley and up the other side to the cobbled Place de la Palud, an ancient, fountained square plum in the heart of the Old Town and flanked by the arcades of the Renaissance town hall. The giant Grand Pont soars over the warehouse district of Le Flon at the northwest of St-Francois is the hotbed of the lausanne’s burgeoning club culture, Place Bel-Air and on to Place Chauderon at the head of the Pont Chauderon, which also rises above Le Flon. The steep slope south of St-François ends at the main train station, south of which a succession of opulent and elegant residential districts around the Montriond and Jordils metro stations trickle down to Place de la Navigation on the Ouchy waterfront. From Ouchy, The Lakeside promenades leads in both directions, with gentle villages of Pully and Lutry in the east while to the west, parkland of Vidy and the lakeside campuses of the University of Lausanne.

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