Mönchaltorf
Mönchaltorf is a municipality in the district of Uster in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
Mönchaltorf is a municipality in the district of Uster in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
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Worth seeing in and around Mönchaltorf
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.
- 01Uster Castle
Uster Castle is a hill castle which was built probably around 1200 AD by the House of Rapperswil in the Swiss municipality of Uster in the Canton of Zürich. Since 1995 it houses a boarding school.
3.2 km · castle with outbuildings and garden · Wikipedia - 02St. Antonius Church, Egg
The St Antonius Church, Egg is a Catholic Church in Egg, Zürich, Switzerland, dedicated to Anthony of Padua. Because of its importance as a place of pilgrimage it has been called "little-Padua".
3 km · church · Wikipedia - 03reformed church
Reformierte Kirche Uster is an Evangelical Reformed church in the Swiss municipality of Uster in the Canton of Zürich that was built in 1824. The predecessor St.
3.2 km · church building in Uster in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland · Wikipedia
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Getting to Mönchaltorf
- Airports
- Zürich (ZRH), 20 km · Bodensee Friedrichshafen (FDH), 72 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 95 km
- Stations
- Uster railway station, 3.8 km · Esslingen railway station, 3.2 km · Emmat railway station, 2.9 km
- Geneva → Mönchaltorf232 km · quickest by road, 4h 27m · CHF31–42
- Friedrichshafen → Mönchaltorf69 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · €14–20
- Bâle / Mulhouse → Mönchaltorf114 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · €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 Mönchaltorf
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 Mönchaltorf. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextA bit further away, but also worth a day trip: Appenzell — As close to the stereotypical image of Switzerland with wooden farm houses and traditional clothes as it gets.
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Next door to Mönchaltorf
Mönchaltorf is 14 km from Zürich, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.