The Coastal Woods Trail - Echandens
After a first part offering games to better understand the forest, its history and its tremendous growth dynamics, the trail takes you on a signposted loop through this communal forest. The illustrated explanation panels describe themes as diverse as "forest and cabin instinct", "where my branches went", "wheat, black powder and cocoa", from clutter to forest", "compost like the forest", "lotto of Lothard", "the Venoge eats its banks". A round trip to the adjoining agricultural land tells the story of the landscape importance of the forest in peri-urban areas and the close links between the forest, viticulture and arboriculture.
Sentier bois de la Côte - Echandens ©MRT (9)
Sentier du bois de la Côte (©MRT)
Sentier bois de la Côte - Echandens ©MRT (3)
Sentier du bois de la Côte 2020 (©MRT)
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Echandens
Proudly overlooking its vineyard to the south, the Château hides behind a curtain of trees a façade with large Gothic mullioned windows and a long shaded terrace.
It was on the ruins of a feudal fortress - which belonged to the Chapter of Lausanne - that the present building (redesigned in the 17th and 18th centuries) was constructed in 1554 by Ferdinand de Loys, Lord of Denens, burgher and mayor of Lausanne. The inauguration took place in 1629.
The castle was built in the middle of the 16th century on the site of an earlier building. Echandens was part of the Bernese bailiwick of Morges; the commune was managed by the assembly of communiers. The General Council was replaced in 1942 by an elected Communal Council (legislature).
A wine-growing, tree-growing and agricultural commune until the 1960s, Echandens then experienced strong demographic growth.
(© Commune d'Échandens)
(© Commune d'Échandens)
(© Commune d'Échandens)
(© Commune d'Échandens)
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