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Elsau

Elsau is a municipality in the district of Winterthur in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.

Elsau
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The place

Elsau is a municipality in the district of Winterthur in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Elsau

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
    Swiss Science Center Technorama

    The Swiss Science Center Technorama is a science museum in the city of Winterthur in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland.

    3.1 km · museum in Winterthur (Switzerland) · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Castrum Vitudurum

    Vitudurum was a Roman vicus, whose remains are located in Oberwinterthur, a locality of the municipality of Winterthur in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.

    3.4 km · roman vicus and fort in Winterthur canton of Zurich, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Hegi Castle

    Hegi Castle is a medieval castle in Winterthur, in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland. Built around 1200 and first mentioned in 1225, it later passed to the Hohenlandenberg and Hallwyl families before coming under Zurich’s administration from 1587 to 1798.

    2.3 km · museum in Winterthur (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 Elsau

Airports
Zürich (ZRH), 19 km · Bodensee Friedrichshafen (FDH), 57 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 97 km
Stations
Schottikon railway station, 900 m · Winterthur Grüze railway station, 3.7 km · Räterschen railway station, 400 m · Oberwinterthur railway station, 3.1 km · Wiesendangen railway station, 3.4 km
  • Geneva → Elsau
    249 km · quickest by road, 4h 32m · CHF32–43
  • Friedrichshafen → Elsau
    53 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · €13–18
  • Bâle / Mulhouse → Elsau
    112 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · €16–23
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Elsau

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 Elsau. 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

    183 km
  2. 02
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    382 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    697 km
  4. 04
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    771 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    816 km

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

Around it

Next door to Elsau

Elsau is 24 km from Zürich, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Winterthur Districtdistrict of the canton of Zürich, Switzerland2.5 km
  • Wiesendangenmunicipality in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland2.6 km
  • Oberwinterthurcity district of Winterthur in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland3 km
  • Seencity district of Winterthur in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland3.5 km
  • Guggenbühlquarter in the district 2 of Winterthur3.3 km
  • Hegiquarter of the city of Winterthur in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland2 km