Lutry (French pronunciation: [lytʁi]) is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud, located in the Lavaux-Oron, which includes the Lavaux region, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

In 1124 it was mentioned as monasterium Sancti Martini cum villa quae dicitur Lustriacus and in 1147 it was Lustriey.

[4] In August 1984, during the construction of the underground car park in La Possession, an arrangement of 24 standing stones (menhir) were discovered.

Similar symbols can also be found on standing stones in southern France, but their meaning is unknown.

[4] At various places in the municipality, including Curtinaux, Le Châtelard, Savuit and Gantennaz, there are traces of Roman era settlements.

Between 1025 and 1124, due to the donation of a man named Anselme, a Benedictine priory was founded on the alluvial delta of the Lutrive river.

The priory was the recipient of numerous gifts and church records from the dioceses of Lausanne, Sion and Geneva.

Initially it held about fifteen monks, but it quickly expanded and had authority over the villages of Lutry, Villette and Paudex until 1548.

The town of Lutry, which was granted certain freedoms by the bishop, began to develop in the first quarter of the 12th century around the priory.

Throughout the Middle Ages there were conflicts in the relationship between the mother abbey, the priory, the Bishop and towns.

[5] The village of Corsy (which is now part of the municipality of Lutry) was under the direct rule of Corsier until 1798.

Lutry began to become a town at the beginning of the 13th century when it was encircled by a circular wall created by the Bishop (1212–19).

The wall was supported by a square tower, the Tour de l'Eveque, which was built by William of Ecublens in 1221–29.

The Meier's office was hereditary in the Mayor de Lutry noble family.

The last of the family, Claude Mayor de Lutry died in 1598 and was replaced by a castellan.

Following the French invasion in 1798 and the creation of the Helvetic Republic, it was part of the district of Lavaux.

The vineyards, which during the Ancien Régime were partly owned by Fribourg, Bern, Lausanne and Yverdon patricians and partly owned by the citizens of Lutry, became the most important source of income in 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century.

[5] The period around the turn of the 20th century was characterized both by the influx of many new, non-local families and by phylloxera disease outbreaks in the vineyards.

In the 1950s, the decline of viticulture and the parallel urbanization of Lutry encouraged a number of small and medium-sized enterprises.

Starting in the 1960s Lutry grew into Lausanne agglomeration and became a popular residential area for the wealthy classes.

[7] The municipality is located on numerous terraces between Lake Geneva and the Jorat region.

It borders the municipalities of Paudex and Belmont-sur-Lausanne to the east, Savigny to the north and Villette to the west.

[10] The age distribution, as of 2009[update], in Lutry is; 904 children or 9.7% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 1,098 teenagers or 11.8% are between 10 and 19.

[11] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][15] Lutry Castle or Rôdeurs Castle, the Roman Catholic Church of Saint-Martin, the Swiss Reformed Church of Saint-Martin, the Gothic facade house, and part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site: Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance.

The entire town of Lutry and the hamlets of Châtelard and Savuit are part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

[16] The castle was built in the 15th and 16th centuries as the home of the Bishop of Lausanne's representative, the Mayor de Lutry family.

In 1570 the west facade was replaced with a Renaissance style portal and surrounded with sculptures.

In the tertiary sector; 468 or 30.2% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 55 or 3.5% were in the movement and storage of goods, 143 or 9.2% were in a hotel or restaurant, 48 or 3.1% were in the information industry, 50 or 3.2% were the insurance or financial industry, 152 or 9.8% were technical professionals or scientists, 94 or 6.1% were in education and 285 or 18.4% were in health care.

In the Vaud cantonal school system, two years of non-obligatory pre-school are provided by the political districts.

The canton's primary school program requires students to attend for four years.