Credits
Image credits
Some of the photography on this site is our own. The rest is licensed from Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons or is in the public domain. Each photo below lists its author, its licence and a link to the source.
Where we have adapted a Creative Commons image (for example, colour grading or cropping), we note the change. For images under a ShareAlike licence (CC BY-SA), our adapted version is released under the same licence.
Our own photography
Photographed by Visit Yverdon. © Visit Yverdon, all rights reserved.
- A cascade stepping down into the Gorges de l'Orbe
- A motorway viaduct striding over the wooded Vallon des Vaux
- Lake Neuchâtel from the Yverdon shore
- Stone cairns by the green Orbe, below the old arches in the gorge
- The Cascade du Dard, a waterfall in the Nozon gorge near Romainmôtier
- The lakeside park at Yverdon, under autumn light
- The Ruisseau des Vaux running through the wooded Vallon des Vaux
- Yverdon's lakeside beach, looking across to the Jura
Creative Commons & public domain
Sourced from Wikimedia Commons and used with attribution, under the licence stated for each image.
- The menhirs of Clendy, raised on the lakeshore in the Neolithic
- A yellow Swiss hiking waymark, the sign of the marked trail network
- The Roman public baths under excavation in 1903 (photo: Albert Naef)
- Walkers on the Dent de Vaulion, above the Vallée de Joux
- Yverdon from the south, a 1756 engraving
- Yverdon seen from the heights above Grandson, a 1757 engraving
- A Roman boat (3rd–4th c.) at the Yverdon regional museum
- Hiking-trail signposts at Sainte-Croix (1067 m), a Jura walking hub
- La Chaux de Sainte-Croix and Le Cochet, above the music-box town
- The Gorges de Covatannaz, a wooded ravine in the Jura foothills
- The Roman boat (3rd–4th c.) in the Musée d'Yverdon et région
- Vineyards running down to Lake Neuchâtel at Concise, the 1476 battlefield
- A hiker on the cliff edge of the Creux du Van at sunrise
- The lakeshore at sunrise, with the harbour and a moored sailboat
- The Dent de Vaulion under winter snow
- The limestone cliffs of the Creux du Van rock amphitheatre in autumn
- A view over the town of Sainte-Croix
- Reedbeds along the Grande Cariçaie, on the lake's south shore
- The Clendy menhirs, a Neolithic standing-stone alignment by the lake
- A great egret fishing in the reedbeds at Champ-Pittet
- A kingfisher at the Champ-Pittet nature reserve
- A wild kingfisher on the shore of Lake Neuchâtel
- Great egret fishing at Champ-Pittet (duplicate of champ-pittet-egret)
- Le Creux du Van, the Jura's vast rock amphitheatre, under snow
- Sunset over the lakes from the Dent de Vaulion
- Jura pastures and forest on the slopes of the Mont Aubert, above Mutrux
- The Parc des Rives, Yverdon's lakefront park
- Château de Champvent, a medieval castle in the hills near Yverdon
- The Gorges de l'Orbe, where the river cuts through the Jura
- The river Orbe deep in its gorge
- The Ruisseau des Vaux, a small river in the woods near Yvonand
- Place Pestalozzi and the castle, in the heart of Yverdon
- A footbridge over the river Orbe, near Vallorbe
- A corner of Rue du Four
- Rue du Collège, in the old town
- Rue du Four, Yverdon's old town
- Rue du Lac, in the heart of Yverdon
- The arched doorway of the Château d'Yverdon, the town's Savoyard castle and museum
- The MuMAPS music-box and automata museum, Sainte-Croix
- Yverdon-les-Bains station, on the Lausanne–Neuchâtel line
- A cobbled lane in the Grandson old town
- The abbey of Romainmôtier-Envy, in its Jura valley
- The château at Champ-Pittet, home to the Pro Natura centre
- Inside the Maison d'Ailleurs: the Jules Verne room
- The Tilleul de Morat, a lime tree on the terrace of Grandson Castle
- Low sun on a standing stone at the Clendy alignment
- The Maison d'Ailleurs, museum of science fiction and utopia
- The Grande Cariçaie, the largest lakeside marsh in Switzerland
- The Château d'Yverdon, the 13th-century Savoyard castle
- Le Suchet, a Jura summit above the Yverdon plain
- The Swiss Fashion Museum, in the château at Yverdon
- An old-town corner in Grandson, with its stone fountain
- Estavayer-le-Lac, across Lake Neuchâtel from Yverdon
- Estavayer-le-Lac, the medieval town on the lake's south shore
- Lanes and rooftops of Estavayer-le-Lac
- The lakeside town of Estavayer-le-Lac
- The old town of Estavayer-le-Lac
- The Musée de la Mode: the 'Esprit Dandy' exhibition
- The Villa Fleur d'eau and its observatory on the Grandson lakeshore, the château on the hill behind
- A chamois on the slopes of the Dent de Vaulion
- Globe orchids (Traunsteinera globosa) flowering on Le Chasseron
- Interrupted clubmoss (Lycopodium annotinum) on the forest floor at the Creux du Van
- Le Suchet, seen across a sea of fog from the Dent de Vaulion
- The Aiguilles de Baulmes, limestone crags above the Yverdon plain
- The cliffs of the Aiguilles de Baulmes, in the Jura
- The cross on the summit of Le Suchet
- The summit of the Dent de Vaulion, the Alps beyond a sea of cloud
- Yverdon and Lake Neuchâtel seen from Le Chasseron
- A street-organ mechanism at the CIMA museum, Sainte-Croix
- The river Orbe running through the old town of Vallorbe
- The Orbe gorges below Les Clées
- The abbatiale of Romainmôtier
- The abbey church of Romainmôtier
- The Romanesque abbey church of Romainmôtier
- An old farmhouse at Bonvillars, up in the vineyards
- Bonvillars, a wine village in the hills north of Yverdon
- Château de Grandson, the medieval castle on Lake Neuchâtel
- Place Pestalozzi and the château
- The Neolithic menhir of Champ des Échâtelards, above Grandson
- The Roman castrum of Eburodunum, Yverdon's late-Roman fort
- The Théâtre Benno Besson, Yverdon's theatre of 1898
- The Route du Sel, the old salt road between Vuiteboeuf and Sainte-Croix
- Le Chasseron, a Jura summit with long views over the lakes and Alps
- On Le Chasseron, above Sainte-Croix
- Lake Neuchâtel at sunrise, seen from Yverdon
- Inside the abbey church of Romainmôtier
- The Abbey of Romainmôtier, one of Switzerland's oldest Romanesque churches
- La Tour Ronde, the medieval round tower at Orbe
- A fountain in the gardens of Yverdon's Centre Thermal
- The stairway through the Grottes de Vallorbe, past the stalagmites
- The underground lake in the Grottes de Vallorbe
- Place Pestalozzi, with the Notre-Dame church and the Pestalozzi memorial
- On the summit ridge of Mont d'Or, above Vallorbe