--- title: "Ollon – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Ollon, Switzerland: 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…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ollon" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ollon.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Ollon_-_Dents_du_Midi.jpg/3840px-Ollon_-_Dents_du_Midi.jpg" --- 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](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Ollon_-_Dents_du_Midi.jpg/3840px-Ollon_-_Dents_du_Midi.jpg) Ollon · Wikimedia Commons 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ollon), 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aigle_Castle) 2. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Blaise_Chapel) 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. Go there ## 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/geneva-to-ollon) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Geneva&to=Ollon) - Zurich → Ollon 168 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · CHF24–32 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/zurich-to-ollon) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Zurich&to=Ollon) - Caselle Torinese (TO) → Ollon 134 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · €21–29 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/caselle-torinese-to-to-ollon) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Caselle+Torinese+%28TO%29&to=Ollon) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Ollon) 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 around The TeleLeysin cable car \[http://www.teleleysin.ch\] runs both summer and winter. From [Wikivoyage: Leysin](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/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. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 66 km 2. [Cinque Terre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cinque-terre) IT 7 ways of moving, 23 sources 322 km 3. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 782 km 4. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 789 km 5. [Hvar](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hvar) HR 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 827 km If you know how people move in Ollon – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Collon&title=Ollon&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Follon), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Ollon - [Aigle](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/aigle) town and municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland 3.3 km - [Leysin](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/leysin) municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland 3.7 km - [Villars-sur-Ollon](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/villars-sur-ollon) village in Vaud, Switzerland 3.8 km - [Saint-Triphon](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/saint-triphon) Swiss ancient human settlement 1.8 km [The place page for Ollon](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/ollon) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Switzerland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-CH) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/ollon, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt