Prilly
Prilly is a municipality in Switzerland in the canton of Vaud, located in the district of Ouest Lausannois.

Prilly is a municipality in Switzerland in the canton of Vaud, located in the district of Ouest Lausannois. It is one of the western suburbs of the city of Lausanne.
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Worth seeing in and around Prilly
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.
- 01University of Lausanne
The University of Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland, was founded in 1537 as a school of Protestant theology, before being made a university in 1890. The university is the second-oldest in Switzerland, and one of the oldest in the world in continuous operation.
2 km · university located in Lausanne, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 02École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
EPFL is a public research university in Lausanne, Switzerland. Founded in 1969, the university primarily teaches and conducts research in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields.
3 km · university in Ecublens, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 03Olympic 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.
3.8 km · museum collection in Lausanne in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 04Lausanne 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 km · cathedral of the Swiss Reformed Church · Wikipedia - 05Stade Olympique de la Pontaise
Stade Olympique de la Pontaise also known as the Pinnacle of football is a multi-purpose stadium in Lausanne, Switzerland. The stadium holds 15,700 people and was opened in 1954.
1.9 km · stadium · Wikipedia - 06Vaudoise aréna
The Vaudoise Aréna is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in Prilly, a western suburb of Lausanne in Switzerland. Opened in September 2019, it was built on the site of the former, now demolished, CIG de Malley which it replaced to host the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics.
500 m · Indoor arena in Prilly, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 07Palais de Rumine
The Palais de Rumine ʁymin]) is a late 19th-century building in Florentine Renaissance style in Lausanne, Switzerland.
2.8 km · palace in Lausanne in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 08Centre 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.
3.6 km · special library in Lausanne (Switzerland) · Wikipedia - 09Château 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.
3.6 km · Castle hotel building in Lausanne in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 10Château 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.
2.9 km · castle in the centre of Lausanne, Switzerland · Wikipedia
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Getting to Prilly
- Airports
- Geneva (GVA), 50 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 138 km · Lyon Saint-Exupéry (LYS), 147 km
- Stations
- Lausanne railway station, 2.9 km · Lausanne-La Blécherette airfield, 1.8 km · Lausanne-Flon railway station, 2.7 km · Railway station SBB, 1.7 km · Ouchy-Olympique station, 3.5 km
- Geneva → Prilly51 km · quickest by road, 1h 13m · CHF6–9
- Zurich → Prilly174 km · quickest by road, 3h 21m · CHF23–31
- Bâle / Mulhouse → Prilly146 km · quickest by road, 3h 27m · €23–32
- 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 Prilly
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 Prilly. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Prilly
- Lausannecapital city of the canton of Vaud, Switzerland2.6 km
- Renensmunicipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland800 m
- Ecublensmunicipality in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland3.1 km
- Crissiermunicipality in Switzerland2.2 km
- Saint-Sulpicemunicipality in Switzerland3.2 km
- Lausanne Districtdistrict of the canton of Vaud, Switzerland3.4 km