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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 150. Not illustrated. Chapters: Neuchatel, La Chaux-De-Fonds, le Locle, Les Hauts-Geneveys, Marin-Epagnier, La Brevine, Bevaix, le Landeron, Motiers, Couvet, Fleurier, Saint-Blaise, Neuchatel, Hauterive, Neuchatel, Boudry, La Sagne, Les Ponts-De-Martel, Cortaillod, Villiers, Switzerland, Les Verrieres, La Cote-Aux-Fees, Fontaines, Switzerland, Chezard-Saint-Martin, Boudevilliers, Corcelles-Cormondreche, Les Geneveys-Sur-Coffrane, Vaumarcus, Les Planchettes, le Cerneux-Pequignot, Rochefort, Switzerland, Lignieres, Neuchatel, Cressier, Neuchatel, le Paquier, Neuchatel, Saint-Sulpice, Neuchatel, Les Bayards, Valangin, Travers, Switzerland, Gorgier, Les Brenets, Saint-Aubin-Sauges, Fenin-Vilars-Saules, La Chaux-Du-Milieu, Enges, Brot-Plamboz, Dombresson, Cornaux, Noiraigue, Colombier, Neuchatel, Fontainemelon, Montmollin, Thielle-Wavre, Savagnier, Auvernier, Boveresse, Peseux, Neuchatel, Engollon, Cernier, Montalchez, Brot-Dessous, Fresens, Bole. Excerpt: Neuchatel (literally: New German castle French) is the capital of the Swiss canton of Neuchatel on Lake Neuchatel. The city has as of December 2007 approximately 32,600 inhabitants (80,000 in the agglomeration), by and large French-speaking, although the city is sometimes referred to historically by the German name .), which has the same meaning, since it originally belonged to the Holy Roman Empire and later Prussia ruled the area until 1848. Neuchatel is a pilot city of the Council of Europe and the European Commission Intercultural cities programme. The city is located on the northwestern shore of the Lake of Neuchatel ("lac de Neuchatel" in French and "Neuenburgersee" in German), a few kilometers east of Peseux and west of Saint-Blaise. Above Neuchatel, roads and train tracks rise steeply into the folds and ridges of the Jura range known within the canton as the Montagnes Neuch...