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Municipality in Vaud, Switzerland

Bourg-en-Lavaux

Bourg-en-Lavaux is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud, located in the district of Lavaux-Oron.

Bourg-en-Lavaux
Bourg-en-Lavaux · Julian Herzog
The place

Bourg-en-Lavaux is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud, located in the district of Lavaux-Oron.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bourg-en-Lavaux

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
    Mont de Gourze

    Mountain of the Swiss Plateau

    2.2 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Tower of Gourze

    Observation tower in Riex in the Swiss canton of Vaud

    2.2 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Castle with outbuilding and Château des Rôdeurs

    Castle building in Lutry in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland

    2.3 km · 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 Bourg-en-Lavaux

Airports
Geneva (GVA), 55 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 137 km · Lyon Saint-Exupéry (LYS), 152 km
Stations
Cully railway station, 1.5 km · Épesses railway station, 2.5 km · Lutry railway station, 2 km · Villette railway station, 900 m · Puidoux railway station, 3.8 km
  • Geneva → Bourg-en-Lavaux
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · CHF8–11
  • Zurich → Bourg-en-Lavaux
    171 km · quickest by road, 3h 17m · CHF22–30
  • Bâle / Mulhouse → Bourg-en-Lavaux
    140 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · €20–28
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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 Bourg-en-Lavaux

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 Bourg-en-Lavaux. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundThere is also a funicular from Vevey to Mont-Pelerin station (where you can walk in perhaps 1.5 hours to the Mont-Pelerin summit at 1080 m which has a viewing tower), a train from Vevey to Les Pleiades (1360 m), and several others.
  • Get aroundGroups can charter the Petit Train outside of the normal schedule for a starting price of Fr. 200, which is a good deal if you have a group of 34 (the maximum capacity of the train).

From Wikivoyage: Lavaux, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-04.

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

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    96 km
  2. 02
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    353 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    751 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    763 km
  5. 05
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    856 km

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

Around it

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