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Municipality in Vaud, Switzerland

Ollon

Ollon is a municipality in the district of Aigle in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, sited in the foothills of the mountains to the south-east of the Lake of Geneva.

Ollon
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The place

Ollon is a municipality in the district of Aigle in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, sited in the foothills of the mountains to the south-east of the Lake of Geneva. The old German language name Olun is no longer used.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ollon

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. 01
    Aigle Castle

    Aigle Castle is a castle in the municipality of Aigle of the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

    2.5 km · castle in Aigle in Canton of Vaud, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Blaise Chapel

    The Saint Blaise Chapel is an historic ruin located in the hamlet of Saint-Triphon in Switzerland. This romanesque style chapel, which existed still at least 1174, was partially restored in 2009.

    1.8 km · Medieval chapel at Saint-Triphon, 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.

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Getting to Ollon

Airports
Geneva (GVA), 69 km · Turin (TRN), 132 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 150 km
Stations
Aigle railway station, 3.4 km
  • Geneva → Ollon
    66 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · CHF12–16
  • Zurich → Ollon
    168 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · CHF24–32
  • Caselle Torinese (TO) → Ollon
    134 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · €21–29
  • 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.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ollon

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundThe TeleLeysin cable car [http://www.teleleysin.ch] runs both summer and winter.

From Wikivoyage: Leysin, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-07.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    66 km
  2. 02
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 23 sources

    322 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    782 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    789 km
  5. 05
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    827 km

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

Around it

Next door to Ollon

  • Aigletown and municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland3.3 km
  • Leysinmunicipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland3.7 km
  • Villars-sur-Ollonvillage in Vaud, Switzerland3.8 km
  • Saint-TriphonSwiss ancient human settlement1.8 km