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In the neighborhood of Geneva, Lausanne, an interesting, attractive and worldly known, is the sexiest city of the Switzerland. It's tiered above the lake on a succession of south-facing terraces, with the Old Town at the top, the train station and commercial districts in the middle, and the one-time fishing village of Ouchy, now prime territory for waterfront café-lounging and strolling, at the bottom.  The biggest university of Switzerland aids the youthful spirit and has the wealth of international student programs feeds an unusually diverse, multi-ethnic make-up. Switzerland’s San Francisco, a city of incredibly steep hills that has developed tiered above the lake on a succession of compact, south-facing terraces. Vistas of blue water, glittering sunlight and the purple and grey of the looming, white capped Savoy Alps peep through between gaps in buildings or at the ends of steeply dropping alleys. Much of the city is still wooded, there are plenty of parks, and the tree-lined lakefront promenades spill over with lush, beds of vibrantly colorful flowers. Lausanne's flagship Olympic Museum (daily 9am–6pm, Thurs until 8pm; Oct–April closed Mon; Fr.14), a vacuous and expensive place that trumpets the Olympic ideal by means of snippets of archive footage, stirring music and Cathy Freeman's old running shoes.

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