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Paudex

Paudex is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud, located in the district of Lavaux-Oron.

Paudex
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The place

Paudex is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud, located in the district of Lavaux-Oron. It is a suburb of the city of Lausanne.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Paudex

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
    Olympic Museum

    The Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland houses permanent and temporary exhibits relating to sport and the Olympic movement. With more than 10,000 artifacts, the museum is the largest archive of Olympic Games memorabilia in the world and one of Lausanne's prime tourist site draws attracting more than 250,000 visitors each year.

    2.7 km · museum collection in Lausanne in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Lausanne Cathedral

    The Cathedral of Our Lady of Lausanne, or simply Lausanne Cathedral, is a Swiss Reformed church located in the city of Lausanne, in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. It is owned by the Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Vaud.

    3.5 km · cathedral of the Swiss Reformed Church · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Centre international de recherches sur l'anarchisme

    CIRA or the International Center for Research on Anarchism is an anarchist archive, infoshop and library of anarchist material in different languages which is based in Lausanne, Switzerland and has two branches in Marseille, France and Fujinomiya, Japan.

    3.3 km · special library in Lausanne (Switzerland) · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Palais de Rumine

    The Palais de Rumine ʁymin]) is a late 19th-century building in Florentine Renaissance style in Lausanne, Switzerland.

    3.6 km · palace in Lausanne in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Château d'Ouchy

    The Château d'Ouchy is a hotel built on the site of a former medieval castle in the Ouchy lakeside neighbourhood of Lausanne, Switzerland by businessman Jean-Jacques Mercier between 1889 and 1893. It belongs to the hotel division of the Sandoz Family Foundation.

    3.1 km · Castle hotel building in Lausanne in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Château Saint-Maire

    Château Saint-Maire is a castle in Lausanne, Switzerland, that serves as the seat of the cantonal government, the Council of State of Vaud. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

    3.6 km · castle in the centre of Lausanne, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Photo Elysée

    Photo Élysée, formerly known as Musée de l'Élysée, is a museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, entirely devoted to photography. It is a government-supported institution founded in 1985 by Charles-Henri Favrod.

    3.8 km · museum in Lausanne (Switzerland) · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Synagogue of Lausanne

    The Synagogue of Lausanne is a Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 1 Avenue de Florimont in Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland. The building is a Cultural Property of National Significance.

    2.9 km · synagogue in Lausanne in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    mudac - Cantonal Museum of Design and Contemporary Applied Arts

    The Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts is a museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is part of the Plateforme 10 Arts District.

    3.9 km · museum in Switzerland · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Conservatory of Lausanne

    The Haute école de musique de Lausanne is a Swiss music school located in Romandy, the French-speaking western part of Switzerland. It is a constituent institution of the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland.

    3.3 km · Lausanne University of Music and Conservatory 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.

Go there

Getting to Paudex

Airports
Geneva (GVA), 52 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 138 km · Lyon Saint-Exupéry (LYS), 149 km
Stations
Lausanne railway station, 3.4 km · Lausanne-Flon railway station, 3.6 km · Pully railway station, 1.3 km · Lutry railway station, 1.9 km · Villette railway station, 3.2 km
  • Geneva → Paudex
    52 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · CHF7–9
  • Zurich → Paudex
    172 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · CHF23–30
  • Bâle / Mulhouse → Paudex
    147 km · quickest by road, 3h 24m · €23–32
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Paudex

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inBoats ply the Swiss and French shores of Lake Geneva with several daily ferries from Evian, Montreux, Geneva and many smaller lake shore towns.
  • Get inMost of the ferries are meant as scenic trips and not the fastest way to get around.

From Wikivoyage: Lausanne, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    99 km
  2. 02
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    355 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    748 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    763 km
  5. 05
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    859 km

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