Lavaux
Lavaux is a terraced vineyard landscape above Lake Geneva between Lausanne and Vevey. The heritage association describes its cultivation as extending over more than a thousand years. About 180 winegrowing families cultivate Chasselas and maintain its terrace walls.
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Lavaux is a terraced vineyard landscape above Lake Geneva between Lausanne and Vevey. The heritage association describes its cultivation as extending over more than a thousand years. About 180 winegrowing families cultivate Chasselas and maintain its terrace walls.
- Object type under review
- Switzerland
Editorial reading
Editorial interpretation: the relationship between viticulture and maintained walls offers a way to read Lavaux as a landscape of continuing work. Its terraces can be considered through the practices that sustain them as well as their appearance above the lake.
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