--- title: "Les Avants – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Les Avants, Switzerland: Les Avants is a village in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. Nearby: Montreux Jazz Festival, Rochers de Naye, Dent de Jaman.…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/les-avants" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/les-avants.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Les_Avants_%28Commune_de_Montreux%29_-_aerial_shot_%28summer_2024%29.jpg/3840px-Les_Avants_%28Commune_de_Montreux%29_-_aerial_shot_%28summer_2024%29.jpg" --- Village and ski resort in Vaud, Switzerland # Les Avants Les Avants is a village in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. ![Les Avants](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Les_Avants_%28Commune_de_Montreux%29_-_aerial_shot_%28summer_2024%29.jpg/3840px-Les_Avants_%28Commune_de_Montreux%29_-_aerial_shot_%28summer_2024%29.jpg) Les Avants · Wikimedia Commons The place Les Avants is a village in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is located in the municipality of Montreux, in the east of the canton, in the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut. It lies 3.5 km (2.2 mi) north-east of the town of Montreux and 25 km (16 mi) east of Lausanne. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Avants), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreux_Jazz_Festival) 2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochers_de_Naye) 3. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dent_de_Jaman) 4. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_au_Moine) 5. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blonay%E2%80%93Chamby_Museum_Railway) 6. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen:_The_Studio_Experience) 7. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2telard_Castle,_Vaud) 8. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Col_de_Jaman) 9. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Col_de_Soladier) 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glion_Institute_of_Higher_Education) 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 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/geneva-to-les-avants) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Geneva&to=Les+Avants) - Zurich → Les Avants 159 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · CHF22–29 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/zurich-to-les-avants) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Zurich&to=Les+Avants) - Bâle / Mulhouse → Les Avants Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bale-mulhouse-to-les-avants) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=B%C3%A2le+%2F+Mulhouse&to=Les+Avants) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Les%20Avants) 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 Les Avants 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 Les Avants. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get around The company, which operates 1/3 of the Golden Pass route to Lucerne along with the BLS and the Zentralbahn brought under its sales banner, the cog-wheel Montreux - Glion - Rochers-de-Naye Railway and its associated funicular from nearby Territet, the Les Avants - Sonloup funicular and the lines of the former CEV from Vevey into the hills. From [Wikivoyage: Montreux](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Montreux), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 78 km 2. [Cinque Terre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cinque-terre) IT 7 ways of moving, 23 sources 337 km 3. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 767 km 4. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 771 km 5. [Hvar](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hvar) HR 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 838 km If you know how people move in Les Avants – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cles-avants&title=Les+Avants&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fles-avants), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Les Avants - [Montreux](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/montreux) municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland 3.2 km - [Veytaux](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/veytaux) municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland 3.8 km - [Blonay](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/blonay) village in the municipality of Blonay - Saint-Légier in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland 3.7 km - [Glion](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/glion) village in Montreux in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland 2.7 km - [Caux](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/caux) village in the municipality of Montreux in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland 2.4 km - [Territet](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/territet) village and city district of Montreux in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland 3.6 km [The place page for Les Avants](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/les-avants) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Switzerland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-CH) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/les-avants, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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