Lausanne feminizes six new streets, parks and gardens

Lausanne continues its work to promote the place of women in public space. At 1^is November, six new locations will bear the name of female personalities who contributed to “forging history”.

Lucienne Schnegg, “Lausanne’s incarnation of the love of cinema”, will for example give her name to the part of the Derrière-Bourg promenade which runs along the Avenue du Théâtre, details the City. Henriette d’Angeville, pioneer of mountaineering, “will be honored in the park surrounded by the Languedoc and Tour-Grise paths.”

The square located at the corner between rue du Maupas and avenue du 24-Janvier will be named “place Liliane-Bergier”, one of the first women elected to the Lausanne municipal council. As for rue du Vallon, it will be renamed “rue Sera-Biasini” in homage to the owner of the pension who once brought life to the neighborhood.

Nineteen female venues since 2022

Surgeon Enrique Henriette Favez will give her name to the future public garden which will replace, in spring 2025, the parking lot of the Ouchy police station. The Place du Nord park will be renamed “Parc des Lavandières” in recognition of the work of the laundresses who went to the Haldimand laundry room, destroyed in 1975.

Since 2022, the City has named or renamed 19 places in tribute to women. She does not intend to stop there: “By the end of the current legislature, the Municipality plans to give 30 streets and public spaces in Lausanne the names of women.” The next two locations are planned for June 2025 in honor of Charlotte Olivier and Sophie Mercier, two pioneers of the 19th century.^e century.

Thibault New Weme is a journalist for the Vaud section. After a Bachelor in political science, he obtained his Master’s degree at the Academy of Journalism and Media (AJM) at the University of Neuchâtel. He also worked with the editorial staff of Le Temps.More info

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