West of the city of Ludwig Iis of Savoy, the banks preserve the vestiges of centuries of life of the populations of the Bronze Age. But not only.
The town of St-Prex retains its plan adapted from a Zähringian model in the 13th centurye century, with the installation of the inhabitants on this small promontory by the canons of Lausanne in 1234.
VQH/Philippe Maeder
Under the leadership of Louis Iis of Savoy, Morges experienced a real boom in the Middle Ages. When the Duke founded the new town in 1286, the city occupied a strategic position, on the road to the Grand-Saint-Bernard pass and on one of the outlets of the axes crossing the Plateau. Very quickly, Morges became the seasonal residence of the Court of Savoy and the seat of a castellany. In the Middle Ages, a solid enclosure protected the old town, the fabric of which followed an orthogonal framework organized around two parallel axes: the Grand-Rue and the rue Louis-de-Savoie.
