Montreux

Worth seeing in and around Montreux

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
   Chillon Castle

   Chillon Castle ʃijɔ̃]) is a medieval island castle located on Lake Geneva, south of Veytaux in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It is situated at the eastern end of the lake, on the narrow shore between Montreux and Villeneuve, which gives access to the Alpine valley of the Rhône.

   2.6 km · moated castle in Veytaux in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland · Wikipedia
2. 02
   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.

   800 m · music festival in Switzerland, held annually in early July in Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline · Wikipedia
3. 03
   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.

   3.6 km · Heritage railway in Blonay in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Île de Peilz

   The Île de Peilz is a minute island at the eastern end of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, close to Villeneuve, Vaud. Measuring a few dozen square metres and featuring a monumental London plane tree, it is the smallest and the only natural island in the lake.

   3.9 km · an islet situated at the eastern end of Lake Geneva · Wikipedia
5. 05
   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.

   600 m · museum in Montreux, Switzerland · Wikipedia
6. 06
   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.

   1.7 km · castle in the Montreux area of the Swiss canton of Vaud · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Fort de Chillon

   The Fort de Chillon is a twentieth-century fortification directly adjacent to the medieval Château de Chillon on the edge of Lake Geneva in Switzerland. The fort secures the road and rail lines that pass along the lakeshore running east from Lausanne to the mountainous interior of Switzerland.

   2.6 km · twentieth-century fortification adjacent to Chillon Castle, Switzerland · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Glion Institute of Higher Education

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

   800 m · university · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Château des Crêtes with substructure, terraces, and greenhouse

   Château des Crêtes is a château in the municipality of Montreux of the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

   2 km · castle building in Montreux in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Former Grand Hotel, Hotel des Alpes

    The Hôtel des Alpes-Grand Hôtel or Résidence des Alpes is an assemblage of former palace buildings in the village of Territet, which is a part of Montreux in Switzerland.

    1.4 km · hotel building complex in Territet in the municipality of Montreux in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. · Wikipedia

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.

What Wikivoyage says to see

1. 01
   Château de Chillon

   Avenue de Chillon 21 (The castle is 45 minutes' walk from Montreux along the lakeside, or 4 minutes by train (Veytaux-Chillon station).),.

2. 02
   Freddie Mercury

   Likely the best known statue in Montreux, the voice of the rock band Queen overlooking the lake.

3. 03
   Queen the Studio Experience
4. 04
   Casino Barrière de Montreux

   It was built in 1881, then rebuilt in the 1970s after a fire in 1971 which was immortalised by the Deep Purple classic "Smoke on the Water".

5. 05
   Swiss Museum of Games

From Wikivoyage: Montreux, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Things to do

Cruises. Take a cruise on the unique Belle Epoque paddle steamers and discover Lavaux from the lake. Timetable at Compagnie Générale de Navigation's website. Take a journey at the "alpage".

From Wikivoyage: Montreux, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Getting to Montreux

Airports

Geneva (GVA), 65 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 138 km · Turin (TRN), 149 km

Stations

Montreux railway station, 200 m · Clarens railway station, 1.5 km · Territet railway station, 1.2 km · Veytaux-Chillon railway station, 2.3 km · Burier railway station, 3.1 km

• Geneva → Montreux

  64 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · CHF10–13
  GuideToday
• Zurich → Montreux

  162 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · CHF22–29
  GuideToday
• Bâle / Mulhouse → Montreux

  138 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · €19–27
  GuideToday
• From anywhere

  The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
  Plan a trip

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 Montreux

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

If you know how people move in Montreux – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.