Lausanne Cathedral has celebrated its 750th anniversary with a ceremony featuring musical interludes and speeches, including government minister Guy Parmelin. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox This anniversary does not mark the end of the cathedral's construction, which took place between 1170 and around 1235, but rather its consecration. On that day, October 20, 1275, Pope Gregory X officially inaugurated Notre-Dame de Lausanne, in the presence of Emperor Rudolf of Habsburg. Parmelin who praised a cathedral "that envelops us in its tranquillity, solemnity and beauty". He said he had "an inevitably admiring and reverent regard" for the Gothic edifice, "a symbol of the unity and influence of the Vaud community as a whole". Evoking a few personal memories of Lausanne's cathedral, the Federal Councillor hailed it as "a place of life" with a "multifaceted" vocation, whether spiritual, cultural, social or institutional. A treasure to be preserved For her part ...
