Description
"Le Locle ville,Le Locle is a municipality in the district of Le Locle in the canton of NeuchAtel in Switzerland.It is situated in the Jura mountains, a few kilometers from the city of La Chaux-de-Fonds. It is the third smallest city in Switzerland (in Switzerland a place needs more than 10,000 inhabitants to be considered a city).Le Locle is known as a center of Swiss watchmaking, even cited as the birthplace of the industry, with roots dating back to the 1600s. The municipality has been home to manufactures such as Zodiac, Terrasse Watch Co., Tissot, Ulysse Nardin, Zenith as well as Universal Geneve, before the latter company relocated to Geneva. The town's history in watchmaking is documented at one of the world's premier horological museums, the MusAe d'Horlogerie du Locle, Monts Castle, located in a 19th century country manor on a hill north of the city Restored historic underground mills (grainmill, oilmill, sawmill) can be seen in a cave located about one kilometer west of the city center."
