Liestal
Liestal, formerly spelled Liesthal, is the capital of Liestal District and the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland, 17 km (11 mi) south of Basel.
Liestal, formerly spelled Liesthal, is the capital of Liestal District and the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland, 17 km (11 mi) south of Basel.
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Museum.BL
The local museum of canton Basel-Landschaft.
- 02Dichter- und Stadtmuseum
Rathausstrasse 30, fax: +41 61 923 70 16, mail@dichtermuseum.ch.
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Things to do
The Liestal carnival with the Chienbäse parade annually attracts thousands of visitors with its procession of flaming carts and torches. It is held on the Sunday night after Ash Wednesday.
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Where to eat
- 01Restaurant Falken
Rheinstrasse 21, mail@restaurant-falken.ch.
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Getting to Liestal
- Airports
- EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 22 km · Zürich (ZRH), 61 km · Strasbourg (SXB), 119 km
- Stations
- Liestal railway station, 2 km · Lausen railway station, 2 km
- Zurich → Liestal63 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · CHF8–11
- Geneva → Liestal187 km · quickest by road, 3h 29m · CHF24–32
- Strasbourg → Liestal122 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · €16–22
- 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 Liestal
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 Liestal. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextFrom here you can take a cable car up into the hills where you can enjoy a rope park, many hikes, cross-country skiing or snow-shoeing, and finally hire a scooter to ride back down into the valley.
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Next door to Liestal
- Itingenmunicipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland3.9 km
- Liestal Districtdistrict in Switzerland1.9 km
- Lausenmunicipality in the canton Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland2.1 km
- Bubendorfmunicipality in the canton Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland1.9 km
- Nuglar-St. Pantaleonmunicipality in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland3.1 km
- Lupsingenmunicipality in Switzerland3.8 km