--- title: "Port-Valais – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Port-Valais, Switzerland: Port-Valais is a municipality of the district of Monthey in the French-speaking part of the canton of Valais in Switzerland.…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/port-valais" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/port-valais.md" image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Ship_station_of_Port-Valais.jpg" --- Municipality in Valais, Switzerland # Port-Valais Port-Valais is a municipality of the district of Monthey in the French-speaking part of the canton of Valais in Switzerland. ![Port-Valais](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Ship_station_of_Port-Valais.jpg) Port-Valais · Wikimedia Commons The place Port-Valais is a municipality of the district of Monthey in the French-speaking part of the canton of Valais in Switzerland. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port-Valais), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Port-Valais 5 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. Le Grammont Le Grammont is a mountain in the Chablais Alps, near Le Bouveret in Valais. At 2,172 metres above sea level, it is one of the highest peaks overlooking Lake Geneva. 3.6 km · mountain · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Grammont) 2. Swiss Vapeur Parc The Swiss Vapeur Parc is a miniature park in Le Bouveret, a village on Lac Léman, Switzerland. It was opened on June 6, 1989, by an International Festival of Steam. 2.1 km · miniature park · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Vapeur_Parc) 3. Lake Taney Lac de Taney is a lake in Valais, Switzerland. Its surface area is 17 ha. 3.1 km · Landscape/natural monument of national importance in Switzerland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac_de_Taney) 4. Tauredunum event The Tauredunum event of 563 AD was a tsunami on Lake Geneva, triggered by a massive landslide which caused widespread devastation and loss of life along the lakeshore. According to two contemporary chroniclers, the disaster was caused by the collapse of a mountainside at a place called Tauredunum at the eastern end of Lake Geneva. 1.5 km · ancient Tsunami on Lake Geneva · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tauredunum_event) 5. Le Tâche Le Tâche is a mountain of the Chablais Alps, overlooking the Rhone valley at Vouvry, in the canton of Valais. It lies east of the Lac de Taney. 2.8 km · mountain in Switzerland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_T%C3%A2che) 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 Port-Valais **Airports:** Geneva (GVA), 60 km · Turin (TRN), 143 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 146 km\ **Stations:** Bouveret, 2 km · Bouveret railway station, 2.4 km · Les Evouettes railway station, 1.1 km\ - Geneva → Port-Valais 58 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · CHF11–15 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/geneva-to-port-valais) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Geneva&to=Port-Valais) - Zurich → Port-Valais 169 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · CHF23–31 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/zurich-to-port-valais) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Zurich&to=Port-Valais) - Caselle Torinese (TO) → Port-Valais 146 km · quickest by road, 3h 25m · €23–32 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/caselle-torinese-to-to-port-valais) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Caselle+Torinese+%28TO%29&to=Port-Valais) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Port-Valais) 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 Port-Valais 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 Port-Valais. 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 company, which operates 1/3 of the Golden Pass route to Lucerne along with the BLS and the Zentralbahn brought under its sales banner, the cog-wheel Montreux - Glion - Rochers-de-Naye Railway and its associated funicular from nearby Territet, the Les Avants - Sonloup funicular and the lines of the former CEV from Vevey into the hills. From [Wikivoyage: Montreux](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Montreux), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 78 km 2. [Cinque Terre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cinque-terre) IT 7 ways of moving, 23 sources 334 km 3. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 769 km 4. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 780 km 5. [Hvar](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hvar) HR 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 840 km If you know how people move in Port-Valais – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cport-valais&title=Port-Valais&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fport-valais), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Port-Valais - [Noville](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/noville) municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland 3.2 km - [Rennaz](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/rennaz) municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland 3.8 km - [Chessel](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/chessel) municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland 2.9 km - [Vouvry](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vouvry) municipality in the canton of Valais, Switzerland 3.9 km - [Tanay](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tanay) human settlement 3.6 km [The place page for Port-Valais](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/port-valais) [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/port-valais, 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. 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