Villars-sous-Yens is a small village with 520 inhabitants on the shore of Lake Geneva in the neighbourhood of Lausanne; has been my home for thirty years. In the past, the region was populated mainly by farmers and winegrowers, and can be reached from the road crossing through Morges-Lavigny and Saint-Prex to Yens.

The locality is embedded in vineyards and orchards over a modest surface of 311 hectars, including 222 ha of grassland, fields and forests as well as 18 ha of vineyards and 10 ha of buildings. The main produce are Chasselas and Gamay wines.

Step by step, in line with callectively grouped one-family houses, its population has increased with a composite number of professional inhabitants enriching social life.