Tavannes

Also known as Tavannes BE

Tavannes is a municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located in the French-speaking part of the canton in the Jura mountains.

Key facts

Swiss town.subject_name: Tavannes
Swiss town.municipality_type: municipality
Swiss town.image_photo: Tavannes 1797.JPG
Swiss town.image_caption: Tavannes town
Swiss town.imagepath_coa: CHE Tavannes COA.svg
Swiss town.imagepath_flag: CHE Tavannes Flag.svg
Swiss town.canton: Bern
Swiss town.iso code region: CH-BE
Swiss town.district: Jura bernois
Swiss town.postal_code: 2710
Swiss town.municipality_code: 0713
Swiss town.area: 14.65

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History
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Demographics
Heritage sites of national significance
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Tavannes is a municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located in the French-speaking part of the canton in the Jura mountains.

==History== thumb|left|Hotel de Ville thumb|left|The Birs river near Tavannes thumb|left|Aerial view from 900 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1930) The area around Tavannes was traversed by the early inhabitants of the Helvetic plain because of the natural tunnel through the Jura between the valley of the Suze and the valley of the Birse. Under the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, the Romans improved this road between 161 and 169 AD. The Roman administrator left an inscription in the cliff at Pierre-Pertuis to this effect.