Lake Geneva & Vaud

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Switzerland, Lavaux, Lake Geneva, wine-growing area Saint-Saphorin

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Overview

Western Europe’s largest lake, known by the francophones who people its shores as Lac Léman but the rest of the world as Lake Geneva, is anchored by the city that claims it, wrapping around her southern shore.

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