Pully

Pully is a municipality in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland, in the district of Lavaux-Oron. It is one of the eastern suburbs of Lausanne and sits on the shore of Lake Geneva, at the foot of the Lavaux vineyards along the road toward Vevey and Montreux. The settlement is first mentioned in 994 as Pulliacum. Its prehistory is notable: the Middle Neolithic cemetery at Chamblandes, dated to about 4300 to 3900 BC, held 76 graves and more than 100 skeletons in stone box tombs, and gave its name to the Chamblandes type of cist grave found across the surrounding region. The municipality covers roughly 5.9 square kilometres, rises from the lakeshore to the Monts-de-Pully at 806 metres, and includes the village sections of Chamblandes, La Perraudettaz, Port, Rochettaz and La Rosiaz. It had 18,694 inhabitants at the end of 2020, most of them French speaking.