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Pages in category "Tourist attractions in the canton of Neuchâtel" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
In 1848, Neuchâtel became a republic and a canton of Switzerland. Neuchâtel is a centre of the Swiss watch industry, the site of micro-technology and high-tech industries, and home to research centres and organizations such as the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM), and Philip Morris International's Cube.
In 1862, locally based members of the Société des Amis des Arts de Neuchâtel and students of Le Locle Drawing School (past and present), came together to form a society of artistic emulation and founded an association called Société des beaux-arts et du musée du Locle (The Fine Arts Society), which then became the MBAL as it exists today.
Lake Neuchâtel is 38 km (24 mi) long and has a maximum width of 8.2 km (5.1 mi). Its maximum depth is 152 m (499 ft) and its capacity is estimated at 14 km 3 (3.4 cu mi). It is the largest lake located entirely on Swiss territory, considering that Lake Geneva and Lake Constance are shared with neighboring countries.
The castle is located close to the city of Neuchâtel and was built around 1620. [2] [3] In 1813, James-Alexandre de Pourtalès acquired the seigneury of Gorgier. [4] The castle was sold to Alphonse-Henri Berthoud-Coulon in 1879 and then acquired by Swiss-born American banker Antoine Borel in 1897. The Borel family retained ownership until 2001 ...
The Musée d'ethnographie de Neuchâtel (MEN) is a museum of ethnography in Neuchâtel, Switzerland established in 1904.The collections consist of 50,000 objects from all regions of the world, with about half from Africa.
(Chaumont (Neuchâtel)) is a mountain peak in Switzerland in the Jura Mountains, with a maximum altitude of 1,180 metres (3,870 feet). [1] Below the southern face is the city of Neuchâtel and the lake with the same name .
Vue des Alpes (el. 1282 m.) is a high mountain pass in the Jura Mountains in the canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. It connects La Chaux-de-Fonds and Neuchâtel. The pass road has a maximum grade of 10 percent. A road tunnel for the A20 motorway has greatly reduced the traffic over the pass.