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Encyclopedia > Leysin
Leysin
Canton Vaud
District Aigle
Coordinates  46°20′ N 7°00′ E (http://kvaleberg.com/extensions/mapsources/index.php?params=46_20_N_7_00_E_region:CH_type:city(2757))
Postal code 1854
Population 2757   (2000s)
Area 18.54 km²
Elevation 1260 m
Mayor
Website www.leysin.ch

Leysin is a commune in Switzerland in the canton of Vaud, located in the district of Aigle. It was famous for its sanatoriums for tuberculosis. The twenty-six cantons of Switzerland are the states of the federal state of Switzerland. ... The Canton of Vaud is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland located in the southwestern part of the country. ... In contrast to centrally organised states, in the federally constituted Switzerland each Canton is completely free to decide its own internal organisation. ... Aigle is a district of the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. ... This article is about longitude and latitude; see also UTM coordinate system Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (vertically) and longitude (horizontally); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which... Here are postal codes of Switzerland and Liechtenstein: Zone 1 1000s are found in Lausanne, Lavaux and parts of Morges, 1100s in parts of Morges, 1200s are in Geneva and parts of La Côte, Vaud, 1300s in La Vallée, 1500s are found in Clavaleyres, the 1700s are found... Major controversy over U.S. presidential election, 2000 September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on New Yorks World Trade Center and Virginias Pentagon killing almost 3000 people. ... This article explains the meaning of area as a physical quantity. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... For other uses of the word, see Elevation In geography, the elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or possibly some other fixed point). ... The metre (American spelling: meter), symbol: m, is the basic unit of distance (or of length, in the parlance of the physical sciences) in the International System of Units. ... A mayor (from the Latin maīor, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... Municipalities are the smallest government division in Switzerland. ... The Canton of Vaud is one of the 26 cantons of Switzerland located in the southwestern part of the country. ... Aigle is a district of the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. ... Sanatório Heliantia A sanatorium refers to a medical facility for long-term illness, typically cholera or tuberculosis. ... Tuberculous lungs show up on an X-ray image Tuberculosis is an infection with the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which most commonly affects the lungs (pulmonary TB) but can also affect the central nervous system (meningitis), lymphatic system, circulatory system (miliary TB), genitourinary system, bones and joints. ...



Leysin is situated at an altitude of 1263 m. The commune can be accessed by road or the Aigle-Leysin train, (Approx 35 minutes). Trains depart hourly. Leysin offers 3 stops (stations).


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Leysin - Wikitravel (1369 words)
Leysin is quickly earning a reputation as the college of Switzerland, it is the home of five international schools and another opening in the fall of 2004.
Leysin is served by the Swiss Federal Railways (http://www.rail.ch) which has a cog-wheel train which runs once per hour from the Aigle station, which is timed to connect with trains arriving from Montreux on the Geneva-Brig line.
The trains up to Leysin leave from track 12, which is actually in front of the Aigle station in the parking lot (it's the track closest to the buses).
Leysin Conference - Course Joining Details (1000 words)
Leysin is a mountain village at 1,263m altitude, approx.
Leysin is both a winter and summer resort, although in early December relatively quiet, as several hotels take an early winter break before the ski season starts.
Leysin is 124 km / 1hr 30mins from Geneva Airport via the motorway system {from the airport follow green motorway signs for Lausanne (E25, E62 and Red 1) After 50 kms bear right for Bern / Neuchâtel / Simplon / Gd.
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