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Municipality in Fribourg, Switzerland

Broc

Broc is a municipality in the district of Gruyère in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.

Broc
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The place

Broc is a municipality in the district of Gruyère in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Broc

9 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
    Castle of the counts of Gruyères

    The Castle of Gruyères, located in the medieval town of Gruyères, Fribourg, is one of the most famous in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

    2.1 km · castle with outbuildings in Gruyères in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Dent de Broc

    The Dent de Broc is a mountain of the Swiss Prealps, overlooking Broc and the Lake of Gruyère in the canton of Fribourg. It lies on the range north of the Vanil Noir, between the valleys of the Sarine and the Motélon.

    2.5 km · mountain in Switzerland · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Dent du Chamois

    The Dent du Chamois is a mountain of the Swiss Prealps, located east of Gruyères in the canton of Fribourg. It lies on the range north of the Vanil Noir, between the valleys of the Sarine and the Motélon.

    3 km · mountain in Switzerland · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Lac de Montsalvens

    Lac de Montsalvens is a reservoir in the Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. The reservoir has a capacity of 12.6 million m³ and a surface area of 0.74 km2.

    3.3 km · lake in the Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Notre-Dame-des-Marches, Broc

    The chapel of Notre-Dame des Marches is a Roman Catholic chapel and pilgrimage site in the commune of Broc, canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. It was listed as a heritage site of national significance.

    800 m · chapel building in Broc in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Castle of the bishops of Lausanne, then baillivale residence and prefecture

    Baillival Castle is a bailiff's castle in the municipality of Bulle of the Canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

    3.8 km · castle in Bulle in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Musée gruérien

    The Musée gruérien is a museum located in Bulle, Switzerland which is dedicated to the ethnography and history of the Gruyère District of the Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. The museum was opened in 1917.

    3.7 km · museum collection in Bulle in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Stade de Bouleyres

    Stade de Bouleyres is a multi-use stadium in Bulle, Switzerland. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of FC Bulle.

    3.1 km · multi-use stadium in Bulle, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Gate and fortified house of the Saint-Germain family

    Saint-Germain Castle is a castle in the municipality of Gruyères of the Canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

    2.2 km · castle building in Gruyères in the caton of Fribourg, Switzerland · 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 Broc

Airports
Geneva (GVA), 86 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 116 km · Zürich (ZRH), 145 km
Stations
Broc-Chocolaterie railway station, 900 m · Gruyères railway station, 2.8 km · Broc-Village railway station, 500 m · La Tour-de-Trême railway station, 2.9 km · Le Pâquier-Montbarry railway station, 3.1 km
  • Geneva → Broc
    86 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · CHF12–17
  • Zurich → Broc
    139 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · CHF19–26
  • Bâle / Mulhouse → Broc
    128 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · €19–27
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Broc

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

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

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    81 km
  2. 02
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    342 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    757 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    766 km
  5. 05
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    833 km

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

Around it

Next door to Broc

  • Gruyèresmunicipality in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland2.3 km
  • Gruyère Districtdistrict in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland1 km
  • Bas-Intyamonmunicipality in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland3.9 km
  • Botterensmunicipality in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland2.2 km
  • Morlonmunicipality in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland3.9 km
  • Crésuzmunicipality in Switzerland3.1 km