Prangins
Sign in to savePrangins () is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is located on Lake Geneva.
Key facts
- Swiss town.area
- 6.03
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Prangins
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Schloss Prangins 1.jpg
- Swiss town.image_caption
- Castle of Prangins
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Prangins COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Prangins Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Vaud
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-VD
- Swiss town.district
- Nyon
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 1197
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 5725
- Swiss town.elevation
- 413
- Swiss town.population
- 3133
- Swiss town.populationof
- 2000
- Swiss town.website
- www.Prangins.ch
- Swiss town.mayor
- François Briand
- Swiss town.mayor_title
- Syndic
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Prangins () is a municipality in the district of Nyon in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is located on Lake Geneva.
==History== thumb|Aerial view (1964) Prangins is first mentioned around 1135-85 as Prengins. Following the fall of the Second French Empire, Prince Napoléon Bonaparte and his wife, Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy, resided in exile at Château de Prangins, where Charles I of Austria and his family would later take residence briefly, beginning 20 May 1919.