La Brévine is a municipality in the district of Le Locle in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. Is is the largest village of the homonymous valley , located a few kilometres aways from its largest lake, the Lac des Taillères. The area is particularly renowned for its microclimate and is often much colder than other nearby locations. For its climatic extremes, La Brévine is nicknamed «Siberia of Switzerland». On 12 January 1987, the local weather station recorded a temperature of −41.8 °C , the coldest ever recorded in Switzerland.
In the 17th century, La Brévine was used to refer to just the village. It was not until the 18th century that it came to mean the entire municipality. The hamlet of Bémont is first mentioned in 1266 as Bemont, and Les Taillères was first mentioned in 1304 as Chaul de Estaleres.
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Address: La Brévine, Le Locle, Switzerland
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