Biel-Benken
Biel-Benken is a municipality in the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.
Biel-Benken is a municipality in the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.
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Worth seeing in and around Biel-Benken
2 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.
- 01Benedictine abbey of Mariastein
Mariastein Abbey is a Benedictine monastery in Metzerlen-Mariastein in the Canton of Solothurn, Switzerland. Mariastein, after Einsiedeln, is the second most important place of pilgrimage in Switzerland.
3.2 km · abbey building in Metzerlen-Mariastein in the canton of Solothurn, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 02Château de Landskron
The Château de Landskron is situated in the southern part of Alsace, in the east of France, mere footsteps away from Switzerland, in the commune of Leymen. The village situated at the north of the ruin, Leymen, in the département of Haut-Rhin, lies in France while Flüh, at the south east foot of the ruin, is in Switzerland.
2.4 km · castle · Wikipedia
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Getting to Biel-Benken
- Airports
- EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 11 km · Zürich (ZRH), 78 km · Strasbourg (SXB), 116 km
- Strasbourg → Biel-Benken121 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · €14–20
- Colombier-Saugnieu, Rhône → Biel-Benken271 km · quickest by air, 5h 41m · €80–120
- Clermont-Ferrand → Biel-Benken389 km · quickest by air, 6h 4m · €100–140
- 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 Biel-Benken
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 Biel-Benken. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inBut these are scenic cruises taking 8 days to tour the cities along the way; they're not point-to-point ferries.
- Get aroundYou can be carried across the Rhine by Fähri, one of Basel's four small ferry boats, which, hanging at a steel rope, are silently drawn by the current between the two banks of the river.
- Go nextThe following destinations are good day trips by train from Basel: Zürich, Bern, Interlaken (see below), Lucerne (see below), Schaffhausen — all in Switzerland, 1–2 hours from the main station (Bahnhof SBB).
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If you know how people move in Biel-Benken – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Biel-Benken
- Oberwilmunicipality in the canton of Basel-Country, Switzerland3.2 km
- Therwilmunicipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland2.5 km
- Hofstetten-Flühmunicipality in the canton of Solothurn, Switzerland2.5 km
- Witterswilmunicipality in Switzerland1.5 km
- Ettingenmunicipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland3 km