Les Avants

[1] The village hosted the first Ice Hockey European Championship, in 1910 and gives its name to the Chemin de fer Les Avants – Sonloup.

Opened in 1901 as the first stage of the Montreux–Lenk im Simmental line, it connects Montreux to Les Avants and Sonloup, 0.5 km (0.31 mi) to the northwest.

Ernest Hemingway stayed at the resort in the 1920s, and recalls the village in his memoir, A Moveable Feast.

[2] The village was home to the opera singer Dame Joan Sutherland and her husband, the conductor Richard Bonynge, who lived at the Chalet Monet.

[3] Sutherland’s home was found for her by Noël Coward, a long-time friend and fellow resident of Les Avants.