{"id":528603,"date":"2026-08-01T08:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T08:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/lausanne-switzerland-map-history-attractions-britannica\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T08:37:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T08:37:00","slug":"lausanne-switzerland-map-history-attractions-britannica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/lausanne-switzerland-map-history-attractions-britannica\/","title":{"rendered":"Lausanne | Switzerland, Map, History, &amp; Attractions | Britannica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lausanne rivals Geneva as the intellectual and cultural centre of French Switzerland. Its university (1891) originated as a theological academy in 1537. The city was the birthplace of the noted Swiss literary figures Benjamin Constant de Rebecque, Alexandre Vinet, Juste Olivier, and Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz and of the philosopher Charles Secr\u00e9tan.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Lausanne\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Lausanne<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lausanne rivals Geneva as the intellectual and cultural centre of French Switzerland. Its university (1891) originated as a theological academy in 1537. The city was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lausanne","wpcat-18-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}