Augst
Augst is a municipality in the district of Liestal in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.

Augst is a municipality in the district of Liestal in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. It was known as Augusta Raurica in Roman times.
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Worth seeing in and around Augst
One place 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.
- 01Ruins Altenberg
Altenberg Castle is a ruined castle in the municipality of Füllinsdorf in the canton of Basel-Land in Switzerland.
3.2 km · castle ruin in Füllinsdorf in the canton of Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland · Wikipedia
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Getting to Augst
- Airports
- EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 16 km · Zürich (ZRH), 63 km · Strasbourg (SXB), 112 km
- Stations
- Frenkendorf-Füllinsdorf railway station, 3.5 km · Pratteln railway station, 2.3 km · Pratteln Salina Raurica station, 600 m · Kaiseraugst railway station, 800 m · Herten (Baden) railway station, 2.5 km
- Zurich → Augst66 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · CHF8–10
- Geneva → Augst190 km · quickest by road, 3h 30m · CHF25–33
- Strasbourg → Augst117 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · €16–22
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Augst
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 Augst. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextFrom here you can take a cable car up into the hills where you can enjoy a rope park, many hikes, cross-country skiing or snow-shoeing, and finally hire a scooter to ride back down into the valley.
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Next door to Augst
- Prattelnmunicipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland2.4 km
- Kaiseraugstmunicipality in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland1.2 km
- Füllinsdorfmunicipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland3.2 km
- Frenkendorfmunicipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland3.4 km
- Giebenachmunicipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland2.4 km