Echallens
Échallens is a municipality in, and the capital of, the district of Gros-de-Vaud in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
Échallens is a municipality in, and the capital of, the district of Gros-de-Vaud in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
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Worth seeing in and around Echallens
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.
- 01Parc de Mon-Repos
The Parc de Mon Repos mɔ̃ ʁpo]) is a public park of the city of Lausanne, Switzerland. The villa in the centre of the park hosted the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee from 1922 to 1967.
1.6 km · park of Lausanne, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 02Échallens railway station
Echallens railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Échallens, in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It is located on the 1,000 mm Lausanne–Bercher line of the Chemin de fer Lausanne-Échallens-Bercher.
700 m · Central station and carriage house of the regional train Lausanne-Échallens-Bercher · Wikipedia
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Getting to Echallens
- Airports
- Geneva (GVA), 60 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 127 km · Lyon Saint-Exupéry (LYS), 156 km
- Geneva → Echallens61 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · CHF7–10
- Zurich → Echallens166 km · quickest by road, 3h 12m · CHF21–29
- Bâle / Mulhouse → Echallens134 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · €21–30
- 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 Echallens
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 Echallens. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inBoats ply the Swiss and French shores of Lake Geneva with several daily ferries from Evian, Montreux, Geneva and many smaller lake shore towns.
- Get inMost of the ferries are meant as scenic trips and not the fastest way to get around.
From Wikivoyage: Lausanne, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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- Bettensmunicipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland3.8 km
- Bottensmunicipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland3.1 km
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