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Prilly

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

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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    University 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
  2. 02
    École 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
  3. 03
    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.

    3.8 km · museum collection in Lausanne in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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 km · cathedral of the Swiss Reformed Church · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Stade 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
  6. 06
    Vaudoise 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
  7. 07
    Palais 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
  8. 08
    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.

    3.6 km · special library in Lausanne (Switzerland) · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    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.

    3.6 km · Castle hotel building in Lausanne in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    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.

    2.9 km · castle in the centre of Lausanne, 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 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 → Prilly
    51 km · quickest by road, 1h 13m · CHF6–9
  • Zurich → Prilly
    174 km · quickest by road, 3h 21m · CHF23–31
  • Bâle / Mulhouse → Prilly
    146 km · quickest by road, 3h 27m · €23–32
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Not yet researched

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.

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

    105 km
  2. 02
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    361 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    742 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    758 km
  5. 05
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    865 km

If you know how people move in Prilly – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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