Where did Audrey Hepburn grow up and live?

📍Route de Lausanne, 1131 Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland

1963 – 1993

“I spent the last thirty years of my life at La Paisible — The Peaceful One — a farmhouse in the Swiss village of Tolochenaz on the shores of Lake Geneva. I had been one of the most famous women in the world, and La Paisible gave me the life I had always wanted beneath the fame: a garden I could tend myself, mornings of extraordinary quiet, the lake and the Alps visible from the windows. I planted roses and vegetables and fruit trees, and learned that gardening was a form of optimism. After I became a UNICEF ambassador in 1988 I travelled to the world's poorest places and came back to La Paisible to recover. I died here in January 1993 and am buried in the village churchyard.”

👍 LovedThe extraordinary peace of La Paisible after decades of film sets and public life. The garden that gave me back a connection to the earth. The village community that accepted me as a neighbour rather than a star.

👎 DislikedThe contrast between La Paisible's peace and the suffering I witnessed through UNICEF work. The illness that came in the final years. The knowledge that beauty and peace were so unequally distributed.

Map showing where Audrey Hepburn lived — Route de Lausanne, 1131 Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland

🗺️ Approximate location today

Street view of Audrey Hepburn's home at Route de Lausanne, 1131 Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland

📍 Street view today

Sources: Walker, A. Audrey: Her Real Story (1994), St Martin's Press; Spoto, D. Enchantment: The Life of Audrey Hepburn (2006), Harmony Books