Épalinges

Épalinges, in Arpitan Epalinjo, is a municipality of about 9,800 inhabitants in the district of Lausanne in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland, and a suburb of the city of Lausanne, which surrounds it. It is first mentioned in 1182 as de Spanengis. The municipality was part of the Lausanne District until that district was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and then became part of the new district of Lausanne. It consists of the villages of Épalinges-Village, Les Croisettes and La Croix-Blanche and several hamlets. It covers about 4.6 square kilometres, of which 56.7 percent is settled, a quarter is forested and about a fifth is farmland, with housing and buildings taking 42.7 percent of the total area and transportation infrastructure 8.3 percent.