Two weeks each July on the shore of Lake Geneva, with the Alps as a backdrop and a guest list that has run from Miles Davis to Prince. Headline tickets in the Auditorium Stravinski cost serious francs, but the shrewd move is the free programme — lakeside stages and late-night jams that deliver half the magic for nothing. Stay in Lausanne or Vevey and train in; Montreux hotel prices reach for the peaks.
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