Château Champittet (Cheseaux-Noréaz)

Francois-Louis-Frédéric Haldimand, citizen of Yverdon, General in the service of the British Army and later Governor of Canada, bought the Champ-Pittet area in 1777. In 1788, he had the castle built there, which was completed in June 1791. The architect Charles Castella from Fribourg supervised the work. General Haldimand died on June 6, 1791, before he could inhabit the castle. His great-nephew William Haldimand inherited the estate. Further changes of ownership followed.

In 1980, the Swiss and Vaud Nature Conservation Commission bought the castle and its 40 hectares of swamps, wet meadows, park and adjacent forest and established a nature information center. This place, accessible to the public and especially to schoolchildren, aims to sensitize its guests to the beauties and riches of nature, to inform them about its secrets, so that they come to love and protect this unique asset, as everyone's life depends on it.