Vevey

Vevey is a municipality and town in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, on the north shore of Lake Geneva near Lausanne, in the French-speaking part of the country. It was the seat of the district of the same name until 2006 and now belongs to the Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut District. A piloti settlement stood here as early as the second millennium BC, Rome knew the place as Viviscus or Vibiscum, and in the Middle Ages it lay on the Via Francigena. In the 1660s several English regicides found refuge here under Bernese protection. Vevey is a long-standing centre of the Swiss chocolate industry, the home of the world headquarters of Nestle, founded here in 1867, and the place where milk chocolate was developed in 1875. Charlie Chaplin lived in Vevey from 1952 until his death in 1977.