n.
Resort town (pop., 2000: 22,455), western Switzerland, on the eastern shore of Lake Geneva .
It was formed by the merger in 1962 of the villages of Le Châtelard, Les Planches, and Veytaux. The nearby 13th-century Château de Chillon was made famous by Lord Byron 's poem "Prisoner of Chillon." It hosts a popular annual jazz festival.