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Couvet
Sign in to saveCouvet 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 municipality of Val-de-Travers.
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Place details
- Locality
- Val-de-Travers
- Region
- Neuchâtel
- Country
- Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera/Svizra
- Population
- 2,811
- Timezone
- Europe/Zurich
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Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Couvet
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- former
- Swiss town.image_photo
- 2011-Couvet-Village.jpg
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- Couvet-coat of arms.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Neuchâtel
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-NE
- Swiss town.district
- Val-de-Travers
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 2108
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 6505
- Swiss town.area
- 16.41
- Swiss town.elevation
- 740
- Swiss town.population
- 2755
- Swiss town.populationof
- December 2007
- Swiss town.popofyear
- 2007
- Swiss town.website
- couvet.ne.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Boveresse, Môtiers, Travers
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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 municipality of Val-de-Travers.
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 Industrial knitting machines, as well as bike parts and munitions for the Swiss Army.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Couvet” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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