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Municipality in Vaud, Switzerland

# Jorat-Mézières

Jorat-Mézières is a municipality in the district of Lavaux-Oron in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

![Jorat-Mézières](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Carrouge.JPG/3840px-Carrouge.JPG)

Jorat-Mézières · Wikimedia Commons

The place

Jorat-Mézières is a municipality in the district of Lavaux-Oron in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. On 1 July 2016 the former municipalities of Mézières (VD), Ferlens (VD) and Carrouge (VD) merged to form the new municipality of Jorat-Mézières.

Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorat-M%C3%A9zi%C3%A8res), CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

## Worth seeing in and around Jorat-Mézières

One place 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. Théâtre du Jorat The Théâtre du Jorat, inaugurated 9 May 1908, is a theater hall located in the Vaud commune of Mézières, Switzerland, about 20 km from Lausanne, in the Jorat region. 400 m · theatre building in Mézières in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_du_Jorat)

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 Jorat-Mézières

**Airports:** Geneva (GVA), 65 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 125 km · Lyon Saint-Exupéry (LYS), 162 km\
**Stations:** Ecublens-Rue railway station, 3.6 km\

- Geneva → Jorat-Mézières 65 km · quickest by road, 1h 12m · CHF8–11 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/geneva-to-jorat-mezieres) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Geneva&to=Jorat-M%C3%A9zi%C3%A8res)
- Zurich → Jorat-Mézières 159 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · CHF21–28 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/zurich-to-jorat-mezieres) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Zurich&to=Jorat-M%C3%A9zi%C3%A8res)
- Bâle / Mulhouse → Jorat-Mézières Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bale-mulhouse-to-jorat-mezieres) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=B%C3%A2le+%2F+Mulhouse&to=Jorat-M%C3%A9zi%C3%A8res)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Jorat-M%C3%A9zi%C3%A8res)

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 Jorat-Mézières

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around

- Get around There 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 around Groups can charter the Petit Train outside of the normal schedule for a starting price of Fr.&nbsp;200, which is a good deal if you have a group of 34 (the maximum capacity of the train).

From [Wikivoyage: Lavaux](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/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. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 99 km
2. [Cinque Terre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cinque-terre) IT 7 ways of moving, 23 sources 358 km
3. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 746 km
4. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 753 km
5. [Hvar](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hvar) HR 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 856 km

If you know how people move in Jorat-Mézières – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cjorat-mezieres&title=Jorat-M%C3%A9zi%C3%A8res&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fjorat-mezieres), and the note gets an entry.

Around it

## Next door to Jorat-Mézières

- [Servion](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/servion) municipality in Switzerland 3.9 km
- [Ecublens](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ecublens) municipality in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland 3.5 km
- [Vulliens](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vulliens) municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland 3.1 km
- [Vucherens](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vucherens) municipality in Switzerland 3.1 km
- [Auboranges](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/auboranges) municipality in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland 3.2 km
- [Hermenches](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hermenches) municipality in Switzerland 3.7 km

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