The Beau-Rivage Palace is a historical luxury five-star hotel in
Lausanne
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, Switzerland. It is located in
Ouchy
Ouchy is a port and a popular lakeside resort south of the centre of Lausanne in Switzerland, at the edge of Lake Geneva (french: lac Léman).
Facilities
Very popular with tourists for the views of nearby France (Évian-les-Bains, Thonon), ...
, on the shores of
Lake Léman
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.
The hotel opened in 1861 and the current main building was constructed in
Art Nouveau
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and
neo-baroque style in 1908. It is registered in the
.
The Beau-Rivage Palace is owned by
Sandoz Family Foundation
The Sandoz Family Foundation, created in 1964, is a private Swiss foundation. Description
The foundation was created by sculptor Édouard-Marcel Sandoz, son of Édouard Constant Sandoz, founder in 1866 of the Basel-based company Sandoz, now Nov ...
founders of Sandoz AG, now
Novartis
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.
Events
On 24 July 1923, the
Treaty of Lausanne
The Treaty of Lausanne (french: Traité de Lausanne) was a peace treaty negotiated during the Lausanne Conference of 1922–23 and signed in the Palais de Rumine, Lausanne, Switzerland, on 24 July 1923. The treaty officially settled the conflic ...
was signed at the Beau-Rivage Palace.
[ Frédéric Koller, "Thriller diplomatique au Beau-Rivage Palace", '']Le Temps
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'', Saturday 4 April 2015, page 5.
In March–April 2015, the
negotiations on Iran nuclear deal framework
The Iran nuclear deal framework was a preliminary framework agreement reached in 2015 between the Islamic Republic of Iran and a group of world powers: the P5+1 (the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council—the United Sta ...
for a
comprehensive agreement on the Iranian nuclear programme
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA; fa, برنامه جامع اقدام مشترک , barnāmeye jāme'e eqdāme moshtarak (, ''BARJAM'')), commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal or Iran deal, is an agreement on the Iranian nuclear ...
took place in the Beau-Rivage Palace, where the foreign ministers and delegations from the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, China, France, the European Union, Germany (
P5+1
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) and Iran were also hosted.
[ The final press conference, on 2 April 2015, was held at the EPFL Learning Centre.][
File:Bilateral Nuclear Talks - Ernest Moniz-John Kerry-Mohammad Javad Zarif-Ali Akbar Salehi.jpg, ]Ernest Moniz
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, John Kerry
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, Mohammad Javad Zarif
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and Ali Akbar Salehi
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in the "Salon Élysée" of the Beau-Rivage Palace (16 March 2015).
File:Negotiations about Iranian Nuclear Program - Foreign Ministers and other Officials of P5+1 Iran and EU in Lausanne.jpg, The ministers of foreign affairs of the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, Germany, France, China, the European Union and Iran in the "Salle forum" (30 March 2015).
File:Picswiss VD-46-35.jpg, The west building.
File:Beau rivage palace lausanne.jpg, The east building.
File:Beau-Rivage Palace, Lausanne.jpg, The north entrance.
See also
* List of cultural property of national significance in Switzerland: Vaud
* Lausanne Palace
References
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Hotels in Switzerland
Buildings and structures in Lausanne
Hotel buildings completed in 1869
Hotel buildings completed in 1908
Hotels established in 1861
Art Deco architecture
Tourist attractions in Lausanne
1861 establishments in Switzerland