Les Avants

Worth seeing in and around Les Avants

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
   Montreux Jazz Festival

   The Montreux Jazz Festival is a music festival in Switzerland, held annually in early July in Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline. It is the second-largest annual jazz festival in the world after Canada's Montreal International Jazz Festival.

   3.5 km · music festival in Switzerland, held annually in early July in Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Rochers de Naye

   The Rochers de Naye ) is a mountain of the Swiss Alps, overlooking Lake Geneva near Montreux and Villeneuve, in the canton of Vaud.

   3.4 km · mountain · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Dent de Jaman

   The Dent de Jaman is a mountain above Montreux, situated north of the Rochers de Naye. In August 1830 three Polish romantic poets, Adam Mickiewicz, Zygmunt Krasiński and Antoni Edward Odyniec, climbed the mountain together.

   2.5 km · mountain · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Cape au Moine

   The Cape au Moine is a mountain of the Swiss Prealps, located on the border between the cantons of Vaud and Fribourg. It lies north of the Col de Jaman and south of the Col de Soladier, among of a crest of peaks extending roughly north into Fribourg to the Dent de Lys, on the range between Lake Geneva and the valley of Gruyère.

   3.2 km · mountain of the Fribourg Prealps · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Blonay–Chamby Museum Railway

   The Blonay–Chamby Museum Railway is a short 3-kilometre-long steep but adhesion worked metre gauge heritage railway operated as part of the Blonay–Chamby Railway Museum using vintage steam and electric locomotives and rolling stock. It uses the Blonay–Chamby railway line, originally built by the Chemins de fer électriques Veveysans.

   3.9 km · Heritage railway in Blonay in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Queen: The Studio Experience

   Queen: The Studio Experience is a museum in Montreux, Switzerland, dedicated to the British rock group Queen. It is located in the former Mountain Studios in the Casino Barrière de Montreux.

   3.6 km · museum in Montreux, Switzerland · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Châtelard Castle with fountain

   Châtelard Castle is a castle in the municipality of Montreux of the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

   3.5 km · castle in the Montreux area of the Swiss canton of Vaud · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Col de Jaman

   The Col de Jaman is a mountain pass in the western Swiss Alps, connecting Montreux in the canton of Vaud to Montbovon in the canton of Fribourg. The pass itself, overlooked by the Dent de Jaman, is located within the canton of Vaud, the border with the canton of Fribourg running one kilometre east.

   2.5 km · mountain pass marking the boundary between the Friborg and Vaudois Prealps, Switzerland · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Col de Soladier

   The col de Soladier is a mountain pass in the canton de Vaud, in Switzerland. It is located 1 km west of a ridge linking the Vanil des Artses and the Cape au Moine, and east of Le Molard.

   3.1 km · mountain pass of the Fribourg Prealps, canton of Vaud · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Glion Institute of Higher Education

    The Glion Institute of Higher Education provides instruction in hospitality management, with campuses in Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

    2.9 km · university · Wikipedia

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Getting to Les Avants

Airports

Geneva (GVA), 68 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 135 km · Turin (TRN), 150 km

Stations

Montreux railway station, 3.3 km · Clarens railway station, 3.9 km · Territet railway station, 3.4 km · Belmont-sur-Montreux railway station, 3.2 km · Châtelard VD railway station, 3.4 km

• Geneva → Les Avants

  67 km · quickest by road, 1h 23m · CHF10–13
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• Zurich → Les Avants

  159 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · CHF22–29
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• Bâle / Mulhouse → Les Avants

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