Photo excursion - Switzerland - Riviera - Montreux (100 photos)

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Montreux was a small village of fishermen and winemakers. Since the 19th century, Montreux has become one of the first resort destinations in Europe. Aristocrats from many European countries came to Montreux to undergo the so-called “grape course” of treatment, popular in those days.

In 1904, the luxury hotel Montreux Palace was opened in Montreux, which still remains one of the popular hotels on the shores of Lake Geneva.
In Montreux, from June 22 to July 21, 1936, the Conference on the regime of the Black Sea Straits was held with the participation of the USSR, Turkey, Great Britain, France, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, Yugoslavia, Australia and Japan, at which the Montreux Convention of 1936 was adopted.

The band Deep Purple, in their song “Smoke on the Water,” captured the events of December 4, 1971, when during a Frank Zappa concert, one of the fans fired a flare gun into the ceiling of the Montreux casino, where the concert was taking place, and caused a fire that destroyed the casino building. The title of the song “Smoke on the Water” conveys the picture that the band members saw from their hotel window as smoke from the fire spread over Lake Geneva.

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