Saint-Saphorin
Sign in to saveSaint-Saphorin () is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud, located on the shore of Lake Geneva, in the district of Lavaux-Oron.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Saint-Saphorin
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Saint-SaphorinHG.jpg
- Swiss town.image_caption
- Saint-Saphorin village
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Saint-Saphorin COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Saint-Saphorin Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Vaud
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-VD
- Swiss town.district
- Lavaux-Oron
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 1071
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 5610
- Swiss town.area
- 0.89
- Swiss town.elevation
- 400
- Swiss town.population
- 348
- Swiss town.populationof
- 2000
- Swiss town.mayor
- Gérald Vallélian
- Swiss town.mayor_title
- Syndic
- Swiss town.demonym
- Les Saint-Saphoriens
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Saint-Saphorin () is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud, located on the shore of Lake Geneva, in the district of Lavaux-Oron.
==History== Glerula or Calarona (from , 'gravel') was a Gallo-Roman village. The chroniclers Gregory of Tours and Marius of Avenches described what is now called the Tauredunum event of 563. A landslip into the eastern end of Lake Geneva caused a tsunami which swept along the lake causing immense damage. Glerula was among the villages which were destroyed. It was never rebuilt. Instead, a new community was founded a short distance to the east, taking its name from the new church there, dedicated to Saint-Symphorien. That name has, with the passage of years, transformed into Saint-Saphorin.