Ballaigues

Worth seeing in and around Ballaigues

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. 01
   Museum of the Pré-Giroud Fortress

   The Fort de Pré-Giroud, also known as the Fort de Vallorbe, is a 20th-century Swiss fortification located in the Jura Mountains near the Swiss border with France. The fort defended the Col de Jougne at Vallorbe, one of the few points in the Jura that could be easily traversable by an invading force.

   2.7 km · historical museum and artillery fort above the municipality of Vallorbe in the Vaud Jura, Switzerland · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Le Day Viaduct

   The Le Day viaduct is a railway viaduct in Vallorbe in the Jura-Nord vaudois District of the Swiss canton of Vaud. It stands near the hamlet of Le Day and crosses the Orbe.

   2 km · Rail viaduct · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Les Clées castle ruins

   Les Clées Castle is a castle in the municipality of Les Clées of the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

   3.5 km · castle ruins in Les Clées in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland · Wikipedia

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Getting to Ballaigues

Airports

Geneva (GVA), 60 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 128 km · Lyon Saint-Exupéry (LYS), 152 km

Stations

Le Day railway station, 2.2 km

• Geneva → Ballaigues

  62 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · CHF10–13
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• Zurich → Ballaigues

  177 km · quickest by road, 3h 14m · CHF22–30
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• Bâle / Mulhouse → Ballaigues

  133 km · quickest by road, 3h 20m · €22–31
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No local-transport research exists yet for Ballaigues

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 Ballaigues. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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