Murten

Worth seeing in and around Murten

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.

1. 01
   Lake Murten

   Lake Morat or more rarely Lake Murten is a lake located in the cantons of Fribourg and Vaud in the west of Switzerland. It is named after the small bilingual town of Murten/Morat on its southern shore.

   3.7 km · lake in Switzerland · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Münchenwiler Castle

   Münchenwiler Castle or Château de Villars-les-Moines is a castle and former Cluniac priory in the municipality of Münchenwiler of the Canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

   900 m · castle building with grounds in Münchenwiler in the canton of Bern, Switzerland · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Löwenberg Castle

   Löwenberg Castle or Château de la Motte is a castle in the municipality of Murten/Morat, in the Swiss canton of Fribourg. It is classified as a heritage site of national significance.

   3 km · castle in Murten in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland · Wikipedia

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What Wikivoyage says to see

The old town and the walls.

1. 01
   Museum Murten

   Recounts the history of Murten from the Celts and Romans to today.

2. 02
   Löwenberg Castle

   A chateau dating to the 15th or 16th century.

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

Where to eat

1. 01
   Freiburger Falle

   Serves meat on slate but also local dishes such as fondue.

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

Getting to Murten

Airports

EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 82 km · Geneva (GVA), 108 km · Zürich (ZRH), 124 km

Stations

Murten/Morat railway station, 1 km · Cressier FR railway station, 3.1 km · Münchenwiler-Courgevaux railway station, 600 m · Faoug railway station, 3.3 km · Muntelier-Löwenberg railway station, 2.7 km

• Bâle / Mulhouse → Murten

  93 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · €16–22
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• Strasbourg → Murten

  190 km · quickest by road, 3h 48m · €27–37
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• Colombier-Saugnieu, Rhône → Murten

  205 km · quickest by road, 3h 58m · €28–40
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No local-transport research exists yet for Murten

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

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