Lavaux-Oron District
Lavaux-Oron District is a district in the Swiss canton of Vaud.
Lavaux-Oron District is a district in the Swiss canton of Vaud.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Lavaux-Oron District
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.
- 01Mont de Gourze
Mont de Gourze ) is a mountain in Switzerland, overlooking Lake Geneva in the canton of Vaud. On the summit is located the medieval lookout tower of Gourze.
2.7 km · mountain of the Swiss Plateau · Wikipedia - 02Tower of Gourze
The tower of Gourze is the remnants of a medieval lookout tower on the Mont de Gourze in the Swiss canton of Vaud. A square tower, it is approximately 9 metres tall and has views over Lake Geneva.
2.7 km · observation tower in Riex in the Swiss canton of Vaud · Wikipedia - 03Castle with outbuilding and Château des Rôdeurs
Lutry Castle or Rôdeurs Castle is a medieval castle in the Swiss municipality of Lutry in the canton of Vaud. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
3.6 km · castle building in Lutry in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland · Wikipedia
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Getting to Lavaux-Oron District
- Airports
- Geneva (GVA), 55 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 138 km · Lyon Saint-Exupéry (LYS), 152 km
- Stations
- Cully railway station, 100 m · Épesses railway station, 1.3 km · Lutry railway station, 3.4 km · Villette railway station, 1.8 km · Puidoux railway station, 3 km
- Geneva → Lavaux-Oron District54 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · CHF7–9
- Zurich → Lavaux-Oron District171 km · quickest by road, 3h 19m · CHF23–31
- Bâle / Mulhouse → Lavaux-Oron District135 km · quickest by road, 3h 4m · €21–29
- 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 Lavaux-Oron District
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 Lavaux-Oron District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundThere 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 aroundGroups can charter the Petit Train outside of the normal schedule for a starting price of Fr. 200, which is a good deal if you have a group of 34 (the maximum capacity of the train).
From Wikivoyage: Lavaux, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-04.
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Next door to Lavaux-Oron District
- Lutrymunicipality in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland3.7 km
- Puidouxmunicipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland3 km
- Bourg-en-Lavauxmunicipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland1.6 km