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Adligenswil

Adligenswil is a municipality in Lucerne District in the Canton of Lucerne in Switzerland.

Adligenswil
Adligenswil · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Adligenswil is a municipality in Lucerne District in the Canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. It is east of the city of Lucerne and borders on the canton of Schwyz.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Adligenswil

7 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Rotsee

    The Rotsee is a natural rowing lake on the northern edge of Lucerne, Switzerland. It is regarded as one of the best rowing venues in the world.

    3.9 km · lake in Switzerland · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Swiss Museum of Transport

    The Swiss Museum of Transport or Verkehrshaus der Schweiz in Lucerne opened in July 1959 and exhibits all forms of transport including trains, automobiles, ships and aircraft as well as communication technology. It is Switzerland's most popular museum.

    3 km · museum in Lucerne, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Rooterberg

    The Rooterberg is a mountain north of the Alps, located between Root and Udligenswil in the canton of Lucerne. The mountain lies north of Lake Lucerne and west of Lake Zug, at the foothills of the Alps.

    3.8 km · mountain in Switzerland · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Mall of Switzerland

    The Mall of Switzerland is the biggest shopping mall in Central Switzerland. It is located in Ebikon.

    2.6 km · shopping mall in Ebikon, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Neu-Habsburg Castle

    Neuhabsburg Castle is a privately owned castle located in Meggen, Lucerne, Switzerland, built on the ruins of a much older castle. In 1244 the income from the land was granted to the Fraumünster Abbey in Zurich.

    3.3 km · castle in Meggen in the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Hotel Palace (1904/06)

    The Mandarin Oriental Palace, Luzern is a grand hotel of the Belle Époque, located on the north shore of the lake on "National Quai" in Lucerne, Switzerland. It was built as the Palace Hotel Luzern between 1904 and 1906, and is officially designated as a cultural asset of national importance.

    3.8 km · hotel building in the city of Lucerne, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Götzental Castle

    Götzental Castle is a castle in the municipality of Dierikon of the Canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

    2.5 km · castle in Dierikon in the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Adligenswil

Airports
Zürich (ZRH), 45 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 87 km · Bodensee Friedrichshafen (FDH), 109 km
Stations
Ebikon railway station, 2.3 km · Luzern Verkehrshaus railway station, 2.8 km · Meggen railway station, 2.7 km · Merlischachen railway station, 3.4 km · Buchrain railway station, 2.6 km
  • Zurich → Adligenswil
    36 km · quickest by road, 1h 6m · CHF5–7
  • Geneva → Adligenswil
    194 km · quickest by road, 4h 1m · CHF28–37
  • Bâle / Mulhouse → Adligenswil
    108 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · €13–19
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Adligenswil

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Adligenswil. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inSchifffahrtsgesellschaft Vierwaldstättersee operates roughly hourly scheduled ferries to Schwyz, Flüelen, Weggis (for Rigi), and runs various themed dinner cruises etc all year around.
  • Go nextRigi, the "Queen of Mountains", less than an hour away by ferry.

From Wikivoyage: Lucerne, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    126 km
  2. 02
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    344 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    731 km
  4. 04
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    772 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    813 km

If you know how people move in Adligenswil – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Adligenswil

Adligenswil is 36 km from Zürich, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Ebikonmunicipality in the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland2.2 km
  • Meggenmunicipality in the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland2.8 km
  • Buchrainmunicipality in the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland3.1 km
  • Udligenswilmunicipality in the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland3.5 km
  • Dierikonmunicipality in the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland3 km