Where Switzerland is widest

Before the Jura water corrections, the area between Lake Biel, Lake Murten and Lake Neuchâtel was often plagued by water shortages, poverty, and epidemics. Through two lowerings of the water levels of these three lakes (1868–1891 and 1962–1973), the Grosses Moos was largely drained. From the additionally gained cultivation area of 350 km² over time, the largest vegetable garden in Switzerland emerged. The train station Ins is located on the edge of the village. The place became world-famous through Albert Anker (1831–1910), the talented artist from Seeland born here, whose painting style is considered by some modern art critics to be somewhat too idealized. Anker's workplaces were Paris and Ins, where his studio can still be visited today. First head out of the village towards Neuchâtel, then cross the railway tracks and follow Witzwilstrasse. Shortly after, the hiking trail leads away from the road and goes to the state forest, which is crossed on a straight forestry road. At the campsite Les Trois Lacs at the Canal de la Broye, you cross the elegant wooden Rotary Bridge. On the shore path along the canal, you reach the nature reserve center La Sauge. The facility is located at the edge of two nationally significant nature reserves, Fanel and Chablais de Cudrefin, at Lake Neuchâtel. The nature reserve center includes a permanent and a special exhibition, a natural laboratory, a multimedia room, and a nature trail with three huts for animal observation.