- Le Locle
Infobox Swiss town
subject_name = Le Locle
municipality_name = Le Locle
municipality_type = City
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languages = French
canton = Neuchâtel
iso-code-region = CH-NE
district = Le Locle
lat_d=47|lat_m=04|lat_NS=N|long_d=6|long_m=42|long_EW=E
postal_code = 2400
municipality_code = 6436
area = 23.14
elevation = 945|elevation_description=
population = 10240|populationof=2007
website = www.lelocle.ch
mayor = Denis De la Reussille|mayor_asof=|mayor_party=
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neighboring_municipalities=La Chaux-de-Fonds ,La Chaux-du-Milieu ,La Sagne ,Le Cerneux-Péquignot ,Les Brenets ,Les Planchettes ,Les Ponts-de-Martel ,Villers-le-Lac (FR-25)
twintowns =Gérardmer (France),Sidmouth (United Kingdom)|Le Locle is a municipality in the district of Le Locle in the canton of Neuchâtel in
Switzerland .It is situated in the
Jura mountains , a few kilometers from the city ofLa Chaux-de-Fonds .It is the third smallest city of Switzerland. In Switzerland a city needs more than 10,000 inhabitants to be considered a city.Le Locle traditionally has been and continues to be a center of the Swiss Watchmaking Industry, it is home to several well known watch brands (such as
Tissot ,Ulysse Nardin and Zenith ) and has one of the world's premier horological museums, theMusée d'Horlogerie du Locle , Château des Monts, located in a delightful 19th century country manor on the hill north of town [http://www.mhl-monts.ch/fr/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=1 ] . Its second major cultural attraction is a set of restored historic underground mills (grainmill, oilmill, sawmill) in a cave located about one kilometer west of the town center [http://www.lesmoulins.ch/] .Twin towns
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Sidmouth ,Devon ,England External links
* [http://www.lelocle.ch Official website of the city of Le Locle]
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