Lake Geneva, inspiration for 'celebrities'

What will this corner of Switzerland that has given so much entertainment celebrities? Well, in short, an environment of inspiration, framed by high mountains of the Alps, with its slopes covered with vineyards, sailboats skimming the blue waters and charming towns on its banks.

 A Coco Chanel Lausanne
Both liked to Lausanne to the great French fashion designer who here spent several periods of his life, staying first at the Hotel Beau-Rivage Palace and later in the purchased property in the forest of Sauvabelin in 1966. Although he died in Paris, his remains lie in one of the cemeteries of the city, the Boix-de-Vaux, one of the most beautiful in Switzerland. His tomb is decorated with five lions representing your favorite number and your astrological sign.
 A Sisi and Freddie Mercury Montreux
For several seasons of summer, Elizabeth of Austria found near Lake Geneva peace that the court of Austria did not allow it. And death, and that while walking along its banks fell victim to the madness of an Italian anarchist who killed him. In the Beau Rivage hotel suite, where he was staying, his memory will be erased, since it was here closed his eyes forever. Also in this corner of Switzerland came in 1978 Queen singer to attend the Jazz Festival in the city and was so impressed by the serenity that he decided to move him. Here he lived in a house overlooking the lake, whose images illustrate the cover of his album Made in Heaven. His bronze statue decorated since 1996 the lake promenade. Lake was also looking at Villa Diodati, the residence of Lord Byron, whom a cold summer day gathered a few friends on it to make up stories of terror, among them was Mary Shelley, who would give birth to their particular Frankenstein. Other celebrities also found in Montreaux their particular space. If the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky came for health reasons, the writer Jean-Jacques Rousseau found inspiration in the lake, placing in it a passage from his novel Julie, or the New Heloise.

 Audrey Hepburn Tolochenaz
Most visitors who come to Tolochenaz, on the shores of Lake Geneva, it does so with a clear purpose: to know the mysterious place that attracted the angel-faced actress who was elegance and style icon of the twentieth century. A leisurely people away from the chasing flashes at the time the stars of Hollywood and lived some of the happy and sad moments of his life. Although his mansion The Paisable is privately owned and not open to visitors, if instead the cemetery where he rests in peace, an open space on a hill with flowers always in his grave
 A Charlie Chaplin Corsier / Vevey
In this alpine landscape he described as magnificent serenity of the greatest movie talent spent the last 25 years of his long life and died. The tramp of modern times with his family first landfall in the famous hotel in Lausanne and then moved to a property in Corsier, north of Vevey, overlooking the lake. It was here that had four of his ten children and also where he became friends with Queen Victoria Eugenia, exiled like him. His remains and those of his wife rest in the cemetery and now a square and a statue remind the shores of Lake Geneva.