Locle

Locle is a common Suisse of the Canton of Neuchâtel. Also called “common mother of the mountains neuchâteloises”, it is the Chef-lieu district of Locle.

She is twinned with Gérardmer in France and Sidmouth (Great Britain).

Geography

Locle is a frontier city, bordering on Villers-the-Lake.

Museums

Museum of clock industry of the Castle of the Mounts

Large collections of pendulums, watches, automats and tools presented in a castle of style Louis XVI, the rich person remains of a Master-clock and watch maker of the 18th century. A film makes it possible to the visitors to better penetrate this universe of technique and art, combining the past with the future.

underground Mills of the Collar of the Rocks (Road of Villers-the-Lake)

An astonishing and single site in its kind. As from the 16th century, an immense cave dug by the river was arranged to install several paddle wheels actuating a mill with flour, a mill with oil, a sawmill… The force of water is thus used several times because the wheels are placed the ones above the autres.
The museum exposes, inter alia, in a very didactic way the objects and processes related to flour-milling.

Monuments

the Castle of the Mounts

Personalities

the large Swiss clown Grock passed there part of its youth (1885-1891).
Hans Christian Andersen wrote there Agnès and the Triton ( Agnete og Havmanden ) in 1833
Henri-Louis Pernod founder of the house Pernod.
Jean-Marie Grezet, professional racing cyclist

Higher education and research

High specialized school of Western Switzerland (HES-SO)

School of engineers Arc divided with Saint-Imier, Delémont

Microtechniques, mechanical Engineering, Data-processing Electronic engineering and

Industry

Zenith, manufacturer of watches
Factory Rolex

Tourism

underground Moulins of the Collar-of-Rocks
Locle belongs to the country of the precision Watch Valley . It is also a stage city of the “Road of the Clock industry”.
Museum of clock industry of the Castle of the Mounts

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