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Couvet

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Country
  
Elevation
  
740 m

Local time
  
Tuesday 4:34 PM

Sfos number
  
6505

District
  
Val-de-Travers

Area
  
16.41 km²

Postal code
  
2108

Canton
  
Couvet

Surrounded by
  
Website
  
couvet.ne.ch SFSO statistics

Weather
  
3°C, Wind S at 10 km/h, 83% Humidity

Couvet was a municipality in the district of Val-de-Travers in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. On 1 January 2009, the former municipalities of Boveresse, Buttes, Couvet, Fleurier, Les Bayards, Môtiers, Noiraigue, Saint-Sulpice and Travers merged to form the administrative district of Val-de-Travers.

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Map of Couvet, Val-de-Travers, Switzerland

It is claimed that Couvet was the birthplace of absinthe at the end of the 18th century and it is now the home of La Clandestine Absinthe. It was also the home to Edouard Dubied & Co, a factory that used to make sewing machines.

Personalities

  • Emerich de Vattel, 18th century political philosopher
  • Denis de Rougemont, 20th century author
  • References

    Couvet Wikipedia


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