Paléo Festival

The Paleo Festival is an annual late July -find festival in Nyon, Switzerland, which is organized and conducted by the non-profit association Paleo arts et spectacles. The first time in 1976 and held a three-day under the name First Folk Festival in the old community hall of Nyon event now attracts every year more than 200,000 visitors. Today, the open- air festival is in the north of the city and comprises about ten acres of pasture land.

Between 1977 and 1985 the festival was called Nyon Folk Festival. His name Paleo received the event in 1986 after a racehorse who bore this name.

In the context of the positive economic outlook, the Paleo Festival founded in 1993 with the Montreux Jazz Festival, the OPUS ONE AG, which maintains with her in Nyon offices and also organizes private events.