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 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.
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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.
- 01Aigle 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 - 02St 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.
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 → Ollon66 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · CHF12–16
- Zurich → Ollon168 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · CHF24–32
- Caselle Torinese (TO) → Ollon134 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · €21–29
- 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 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.
- 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.
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If you know how people move in Ollon – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
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