Lachen

Worth seeing in and around Lachen

4 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
   Enea Tree Museum

   The Enea Tree Museum is a 75,000 m2 park near Lake Zurich in Rapperswil-Jona, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

   3.6 km · park in Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Cistercian Convent of Mariazell and Convent Archives

   Wurmsbach Abbey is a monastery of Cistercian nuns located in Bollingen, a locality of Rapperswil-Jona, in the Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

   3.2 km · church buildings in Bollingen in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Obersee

   The Obersee is the smaller of the two parts of Lake Zurich, located upstream in the cantons of St. Gallen and Schwyz in Switzerland.

   3 km · smaller of the two parts of Lake Zürich in Switzerland · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Alt Rapperswil

   Altendorf Castle was a medieval hill castle in the municipality of Altendorf in the canton of Schwyz. On the foundation of the round castle chapel stands the choir of the chapel of St.

   1.2 km · Castle site near Altendorf in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland · Wikipedia

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Getting to Lachen

Airports

Zürich (ZRH), 37 km · Bodensee Friedrichshafen (FDH), 73 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 110 km

Stations

Blumenau railway station, 3.6 km · Siebnen-Wangen railway station, 3.7 km · Altendorf railway station, 2.3 km · Bollingen railway station, 3.4 km

• Geneva → Lachen

  234 km · quickest by road, 4h 36m · CHF33–44
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• Friedrichshafen → Lachen

  69 km · quickest by road, 2h 16m · €15–21
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• Bâle / Mulhouse → Lachen

  129 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · €17–24
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No local-transport research exists yet for Lachen

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

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