Yverdon-les-Bains

Yverdon-les-Bains, commonly called Yverdon, is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord vaudois in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland, at the southern end of Lake Neuchâtel between the Jura mountains and the plains of the Orbe. The Romans, who called the place Eburodunum, built a large fortified camp there around 325 CE, and Peter II of Savoy founded the new town and its castle around 1259. The castle later housed Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and his school, and today holds a museum, a theatre and the oldest public library in French-speaking Switzerland. The town is known for its thermal springs and is a regional centre of commerce and tourism. It won the Wakker Prize in 2009, and had 29,955 inhabitants at the end of 2020, making it the second most important town of Vaud.