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Municipality in Fribourg, Switzerland

# Les Montets

Les Montets is a municipality in the district of Broye, in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland.

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Les Montets · Mickaël Schauli

The place

Les Montets is a municipality in the district of Broye, in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. In 2004 the municipality was created through the merger of Aumont, Frasses, Granges-de-Vesin and Montet.

Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Montets), CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

## Worth seeing in and around Les Montets

2 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. frog museum The Museum of Estavayer-le-Lac and its frogs is located in the town of Estavayer-le-Lac, in the canton of Fribourg, where it has occupied the Maison de la Dîme since 1927. This museum is also known as the "Frogs Museum" because of its collection of frogs, naturalized and arranged in scenes reproducing human attitudes. 3.8 km · museum in Estavayer-le-Lac (Switzerland) · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Estavayer-le-Lac)
2. La Molière Castle La Molière Castle, now called the Tour de la Molière, is a ruined castle in the municipality of Estavayer in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland, above the village of Frasses. La Molière is also the name of a former lordship. 4 km · castle and town ruins in Murist in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Moli%C3%A8re_Castle)

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 Montets

**Airports:** Geneva (GVA), 87 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 100 km · Zürich (ZRH), 146 km\
**Stations:** Cugy FR railway station, 1.7 km · Estavayer-le-Lac railway station, 3.6 km\

- Geneva → Les Montets 86 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · CHF11–15 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/geneva-to-les-montets) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Geneva&to=Les+Montets)
- Zurich → Les Montets 143 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · CHF18–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/zurich-to-les-montets) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Zurich&to=Les+Montets)
- Bâle / Mulhouse → Les Montets 102 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · €16–22 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bale-mulhouse-to-les-montets) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=B%C3%A2le+%2F+Mulhouse&to=Les+Montets)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Les%20Montets)

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 Montets

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

The nearest places where the work is done

1. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 111 km
2. [Cinque Terre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cinque-terre) IT 7 ways of moving, 23 sources 372 km
3. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 731 km
4. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 737 km
5. [Hvar](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hvar) HR 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 859 km

If you know how people move in Les Montets – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cles-montets&title=Les+Montets&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fles-montets), and the note gets an entry.

Around it

## Next door to Les Montets

- [Broye District](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/broye-district) district in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland 2.8 km
- [Sévaz](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sevaz) municipality in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland 2.6 km
- [Châtillon](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/chatillon) municipality in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland 3.6 km
- [Lully](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lully) municipality in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland 2.5 km
- [Cugy](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cugy) municipality in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland 1.9 km
- [Estavayer](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/estavayer) municipality in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland 4 km

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