La Tour-de-Peilz

Sister cities

• Ornans
• Thalwil

History

In the area Celt, Roman and Burgundian remains have been excavated. In the Middle Ages it was under the bishops of Sion and the counts of Geneva, until it was acquired by Savoy. On 8 June 1476, after a heroic resistance, its inhabitants were massacred by mountain warriors from Haut-Simmental, led by the Bernese Niklaus Zurkinden. Later the canton of Bern conquered the village along with the rest of the region. It remained part of Bern until the foundation of the canton of Vaud in 1803.

Geography

La Tour-de-Peilz has an area, , of . Of this area, or 29.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 4.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 66.4% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.3% is either rivers or lakes. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 46.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 13.9%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 4.6%. Out of the forested land, 1.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 2.5% is used for growing crops and 11.4% is pastures, while 15.4% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in lakes.

Most-observed species

• Meadow Brown

  Maniola jurtina (Linnaeus, 1758) · Insecta
  5,365
• Yellow-legged hornet

  Vespa velutina Lepeletier, 1836 · Insecta
  5,003
• Eurasian beaver

  Castor fiber Linnaeus, 1758 · Mammalia
  3,849
• common frog

  Rana temporaria Linnaeus, 1758 · Amphibia
  2,513
• Marbled White

  Melanargia galathea Linnaeus, 1758 · Insecta
  2,463
• Red Admiral

  Vanessa atalanta (Linnaeus, 1758) · Insecta
  2,275
• Small Tortoiseshell

  Aglais urticae (Linnaeus, 1758) · Insecta
  2,138
• Common Blue

  Polyommatus icarus (von Rottemburg, 1775) · Insecta
  2,010

Most recent

• M 3.6 — 2026-01-12
  4 km SSW of Les Houches, France
• M 4.1 — 2025-07-21
  4 km E of Frutigen, Switzerland
• M 3.2 — 2024-05-09
  9 km SW of Evolène, Switzerland
• M 3.3 — 2022-09-25
  7 km ESE of Ar?ches-la-Frasse, France
• M 2.7 — 2022-08-23
  4 km S of Turtmann, Switzerland
• M 4.5 — 2022-03-12
  3 km S of Faverges, France