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Overview:
Although the main valley highway south from Montreux bypasses AIGLE,
this alluring little town is well worth the small detour for a
lazy afternoon of castle exploration and wine tasting. Aigle is
the main town of the Chablais wine region, and its prime
landmark – the fantastical Château
d’Aigle, a fifteenth-century folly with corner towers and
witch’s-hat turrets – is now home to two excellent museums
devoted to wine and wine production. Aigle’s other claim to
fame is five hundred years old: in 1476, the town was integrated
into Canton Bern as the first French-speaking territory to join
the Swiss Confederation. Shortly after, in 1526, newly converted
Bernese Protestants sent Guillaume Farel to preach the
Reformation in Aigle, the first time this had ever been done in
a francophone region.
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