Founded in , it developed into an important center of the watch making industry. As a family, we wanted to stay in an apartment and found a beautifully restored one through Ferien im Baudenkmal. Domaine des Tourelles. Domaine des Tourelles was built in and has hardly been transformed over the past century.
For many years, this monument remained empty, until it was bought, by the current owners who renovated it with great attention to detail. It is a beautiful representation of Historicist architecture: the exterior is decorated with small classical sculptures, the wood panels in the living and dining rooms in the Henri II style are a reinterpretation of the baroque and the ceiling frescoes are inspired by Italian decorations.
And last but not least there is the vibrant kitchen with its colourful windows overlooking La Chaux-de-Fonds. It presents mostly mammals and birds from Europe who are on the mend or cannot be released back in nature. It also doubles as a public park and the entrance is free. We had a lot of fun watching the ibex play on their mountain!
We spent the evening looking through the collection of guides and flyers available in the flat in order to plan a walk through the city for the next day. After a great night sleep in such a tranquil area, and in amazing beds, we were ready to explore! It was commissioned in by watchmaker Anatole Schwob and completed in Villa Schwob.
Temple Saint-Jean. The church, with its spiral shape, has a very expressive, plastic architectural style. Building it became possible through the collaboration with Daniel Grataloup, who owned a patent on sprayed concrete technology. It was completed in Anciens Abattoirs. The first public slaughterhouses in La Chaux-de-Fonds opened in At the turn of the century, 60 years after their construction, the city's population had quadrupled and slaughterings had increased seven-fold.
