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Municipality in Vaud, Switzerland

Jouxtens-Mézery

Jouxtens-Mézery is a municipality in the district of Lausanne in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

Jouxtens-Mézery
Jouxtens-Mézery · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Jouxtens-Mézery is a municipality in the district of Lausanne in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is a suburb of the city of Lausanne, comprising the neighbourhoods of Jouxtens and Mézery.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Jouxtens-Mézery

10 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
    University of Lausanne

    The University of Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland, was founded in 1537 as a school of Protestant theology, before being made a university in 1890. The university is the second-oldest in Switzerland, and one of the oldest in the world in continuous operation.

    3.4 km · university located in Lausanne, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Stade Olympique de la Pontaise

    Stade Olympique de la Pontaise also known as the Pinnacle of football is a multi-purpose stadium in Lausanne, Switzerland. The stadium holds 15,700 people and was opened in 1954.

    2.6 km · stadium · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Palais de Rumine

    The Palais de Rumine ʁymin]) is a late 19th-century building in Florentine Renaissance style in Lausanne, Switzerland.

    3.9 km · palace in Lausanne in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Vaudoise aréna

    The Vaudoise Aréna is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in Prilly, a western suburb of Lausanne in Switzerland. Opened in September 2019, it was built on the site of the former, now demolished, CIG de Malley which it replaced to host the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics.

    2.4 km · Indoor arena in Prilly, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Château Saint-Maire

    Château Saint-Maire is a castle in Lausanne, Switzerland, that serves as the seat of the cantonal government, the Council of State of Vaud. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

    3.9 km · castle in the centre of Lausanne, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Collection de l'art brut

    The Collection de l'art brut is an art museum dedicated to outsider art located in Lausanne, Switzerland.

    3.1 km · museum collection in Lausanne in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    mudac - Cantonal Museum of Design and Contemporary Applied Arts

    The Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts is a museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is part of the Plateforme 10 Arts District.

    3.9 km · museum in Switzerland · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Photo Elysée

    Photo Élysée, formerly known as Musée de l'Élysée, is a museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, entirely devoted to photography. It is a government-supported institution founded in 1985 by Charles-Henri Favrod.

    4 km · museum in Lausanne (Switzerland) · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Lac de Sauvabelin

    The Lac de Sauvabelin sovablɛ̃]; lit. 'Lake of Sauvabelin') is an artificial lake in the Sauvabelin forest above Lausanne, Switzerland.

    3.2 km · lake in Switzerland · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Bois-de-Vaux Cemetery

    The Bois-de-Vaux Cemetery is the principal burial ground of Lausanne in Switzerland. Laid out by the architect Alphonse Laverrière between 1922 and 1951, the cemetery lies to the south of the town and has been designated as a cultural property of national importance.

    3.5 km · cemetery in Lausanne in the canton of Vaud, 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 Jouxtens-Mézery

Airports
Geneva (GVA), 51 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 136 km · Lyon Saint-Exupéry (LYS), 148 km
Stations
Lausanne-La Blécherette airfield, 1.4 km · Lausanne-Flon railway station, 4 km · Railway station SBB, 2.2 km · Bussigny railway station, 3.7 km · Riponne–Maurice Béjart station, 3.9 km
  • Geneva → Jouxtens-Mézery
    52 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · CHF6–9
  • Zurich → Jouxtens-Mézery
    174 km · quickest by road, 3h 22m · CHF23–31
  • Bâle / Mulhouse → Jouxtens-Mézery
    144 km · quickest by road, 3h 28m · €23–32
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Jouxtens-Mézery

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

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

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    106 km
  2. 02
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    363 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    740 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    757 km
  5. 05
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    866 km

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

Around it

Next door to Jouxtens-Mézery

  • Lausannecapital city of the canton of Vaud, Switzerland3.2 km
  • Renensmunicipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland1.8 km
  • Prillymunicipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland1.9 km
  • Ecublensmunicipality in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland3.9 km
  • Crissiermunicipality in Switzerland1.3 km
  • Bussignymunicipality in Switzerland3.8 km