--- title: "Aigle – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Aigle, Switzerland: Aigle is a historic town and a municipality and the capital of the district of Aigle in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. Nearby…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/aigle" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/aigle.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Landscape_in_Aigle_%281%29.jpg/1920px-Landscape_in_Aigle_%281%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail" --- Municipality in Vaud, Switzerland # Aigle Aigle is a historic town and a municipality and the capital of the district of Aigle in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. ![Aigle](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Landscape_in_Aigle_%281%29.jpg/1920px-Landscape_in_Aigle_%281%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) Aigle · Krzysztof Golik The place Aigle is a historic town and a municipality and the capital of the district of Aigle in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aigle), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Aigle 3 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. Aigle Castle Aigle Castle is a castle in the municipality of Aigle of the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance. 800 m · castle in Aigle in Canton of Vaud, Switzerland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aigle_Castle) 2. St Blaise Chapel The Saint Blaise Chapel is an historic ruin located in the hamlet of Saint-Triphon in Switzerland. This romanesque style chapel, which existed still at least 1174, was partially restored in 2009. 2.5 km · Medieval chapel at Saint-Triphon, Switzerland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Blaise_Chapel) 3. Fort de Champillon The Fort de Champillon is a twentieth-century Swiss fortification located in the heights overlooking the Rhône valley from the north between Montreux and Monthey. Completed in 1944, the fort secures the road and rail lines running east from Lausanne to the mountainous interior of Switzerland. 2.9 km · artillery fort in Corbeyrier, Switzerland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_de_Champillon) 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 Aigle **Airports:** Geneva (GVA), 66 km · Turin (TRN), 135 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 149 km\ **Stations:** Aigle railway station, 200 m · Vionnaz railway station, 3.9 km\ - Geneva → Aigle 64 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · CHF11–15 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/geneva-to-aigle) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Geneva&to=Aigle) - Zurich → Aigle 168 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · CHF23–31 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/zurich-to-aigle) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Zurich&to=Aigle) - Caselle Torinese (TO) → Aigle 137 km · quickest by road, 3h 15m · €21–30 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/caselle-torinese-to-to-aigle) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Caselle+Torinese+%28TO%29&to=Aigle) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Aigle) 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 Aigle 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 Aigle. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get around The TeleLeysin cable car \[http://www.teleleysin.ch\] runs both summer and winter. From [Wikivoyage: Leysin](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Leysin), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-07. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 69 km 2. [Cinque Terre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cinque-terre) IT 7 ways of moving, 23 sources 325 km 3. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 779 km 4. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 787 km 5. [Hvar](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hvar) HR 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 830 km If you know how people move in Aigle – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Caigle&title=Aigle&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Faigle), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Aigle - [Leysin](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/leysin) municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland 3.2 km - [Ollon](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ollon) municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland 3 km - [Yvorne](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/yvorne) municipality in Switzerland 2.3 km - [Saint-Triphon](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/saint-triphon) Swiss ancient human settlement 2.8 km [The place page for Aigle](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/aigle) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Switzerland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-CH) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/aigle, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt