Lausana, the capital of the Corner of Vaud, is to borders of Lago Lemán in the region francófona of Switzerland. It is the fifth bigger city of the country and the main economic and administrative center in western Switzerland after Geneva.
In Lausana the International has their seats the Olympic Committee (HAMMOCK) and several international federations of sport as the table tennis, the aerial volleyball, baseball, fencing, fight, swimming, shot with arc, sports and the oar.
Lausana is also the seat of one of the two Federal Polytechnical Schools (the other is in Zurich) and of the Supreme Federal Court. Although Geneva makes shade to Lausana like center of the international diplomacy, in Lausana several international conferences of great importance like for example the celebrated one in 1923 took place in which the Treaty of Lausana concluded that established the borders of Turkey after the I World war.
Lausana is an important railway axis in the railway line from Bern to Geneva. It has direct link with Paris and it is at the same time the door to the valley of the Rhone in the Valais. The most outstanding characteristic of the city is their lofty streets. A defile crosses the center of the metropolis thus had to tend bridges from a district to the other.
A series of covered stairs leads to the cathedral and a train of gears connects the railway station with the shore of the lake.

History
Certainty of slumses in the area of Lausana in the fourth millenium is had before Christ. The Romans constructed a military camp there who baptized Lousonna in the site of an old town celta that today is in the suburb of Vidy. In the century VII Lausana host obispal was designated.
The villa went away developing like episcopal city and economic and religious center in the Average Age. It was located in the Route Francigena, a route of peregrination between Canterbury and Rome. The citizens were acquiring with the support of the counts of Saboya more and more liberties.
Nevertheless, the city lost importance when in 1536 the berneses seized of her and his hinterland, that corresponds with the present corner of Vaud. The berneses governed the city until 1798. When 1803 the Country of Vaud became corner, Lausana was designated capital cantonal.