--- title: "Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz, Switzerland: Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz is a former municipality in the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/saint-legier-la-chiesaz" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/saint-legier-la-chiesaz.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Saint-L%C3%A9gier-La_Chi%C3%A9saz_houses_2011-04-30.jpg/3840px-Saint-L%C3%A9gier-La_Chi%C3%A9saz_houses_2011-04-30.jpg" --- Former municipality in Vaud, Switzerland # Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz is a former municipality in the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. ![Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Saint-L%C3%A9gier-La_Chi%C3%A9saz_houses_2011-04-30.jpg/3840px-Saint-L%C3%A9gier-La_Chi%C3%A9saz_houses_2011-04-30.jpg) Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz · Wikimedia Commons The place Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz is a former municipality in the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. On 1 January 2022 the former municipalities of Blonay and Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz merged into the new municipality of Blonay - Saint-Légier. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-L%C3%A9gier-La_Chi%C3%A9saz), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz 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. Vevey Vevey is a municipality and a town in Switzerland in the canton of Vaud, on the north shore of Lake Geneva, near Lausanne. The German name Vivis is no longer commonly used. 2.6 km · city and municipality on Lake Geneva, in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vevey) 2. Montreux Jazz Festival The Montreux Jazz Festival is a music festival in Switzerland, held annually in early July in Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline. It is the second-largest annual jazz festival in the world after Canada's Montreal International Jazz Festival. 3.5 km · music festival in Switzerland, held annually in early July in Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreux_Jazz_Festival) 3. Les Pléiades Les Pléiades are a mountain of the Swiss Prealps, overlooking Lake Geneva in the Swiss canton of Vaud. They are located north of Blonay. 2.7 km · mountain of the Swiss Prealps · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Pl%C3%A9iades) 4. Musée Jenisch The Musée Jenisch is a museum of fine arts and prints at Vevey in Vaud in Switzerland. It was set up on 10 March 1897, thanks to a legacy of 200,000 francs from Fanny Henriette Jenisch, wife of Martin Johann Jenisch, a senator of Hamburg. 3 km · art museum in Vevey in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_Jenisch) 5. Blonay–Chamby Museum Railway The Blonay–Chamby Museum Railway is a short 3-kilometre-long steep but adhesion worked metre gauge heritage railway operated as part of the Blonay–Chamby Railway Museum using vintage steam and electric locomotives and rolling stock. It uses the Blonay–Chamby railway line, originally built by the Chemins de fer électriques Veveysans. 1 km · Heritage railway in Blonay in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blonay%E2%80%93Chamby_Museum_Railway) 6. Swiss Museum of Games Located on the shore of Lake Geneva between the cities of Vevey and Montreux, the Swiss Museum of Games in La Tour-de-Peilz is dedicated to the preservation, research and dissemination of various forms of parlor games. Unlike many other museums in the world, the Swiss Museum of Games distinguishes the "game" from "toys". 2.7 km · Museum collection in La Tour-de-Peilz in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Museum_of_Games) 7. Russian Orthodox Church The Russian Orthodox Church, also called the Russian Orthodox Church of Saint Megalomartyr Barbara, is a Russian Orthodox Church in Vevey, canton of Vaud, Switzerland. It is listed as a heritage site of national significance. 2.9 km · church building in Vevey in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Barbara_Church,_Vevey) 8. Manoir de Ban: Manor house and park The Manoir de Ban, or Champ de Ban Estate Manor, is a manor house located at Corsier-sur-Vevey on the banks of Lake Geneva in Switzerland. The property is known for having been actor, filmmaker and composer Charlie Chaplin's home for twenty-five years, from 1952 until his death in 1977. 2.6 km · manor house in Corsier-sur-Vevey in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manoir_de_Ban) 9. Châtelard Castle with fountain Châtelard Castle is a castle in the municipality of Montreux of the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance. 2.5 km · castle in the Montreux area of the Swiss canton of Vaud · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2telard_Castle,_Vaud) 10. Château des Crêtes with substructure, terraces, and greenhouse Château des Crêtes is a château in the municipality of Montreux of the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance. 2.5 km · castle building in Montreux in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_des_Cr%C3%AAtes) 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 Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz **Airports:** Geneva (GVA), 65 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 135 km · Turin (TRN), 153 km\ **Stations:** Vevey railway station, 3.1 km · Clarens railway station, 2.8 km · Burier railway station, 2.1 km · La Tour-de-Peilz railway station, 2.2 km · Vevey-Funi railway station, 3.7 km\ - Geneva → Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz 65 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · CHF9–13 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/geneva-to-saint-legier-la-chiesaz) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Geneva&to=Saint-L%C3%A9gier-La+Chi%C3%A9saz) - Zurich → Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz 160 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · CHF21–28 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/zurich-to-saint-legier-la-chiesaz) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Zurich&to=Saint-L%C3%A9gier-La+Chi%C3%A9saz) - Bâle / Mulhouse → Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz 133 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · €18–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bale-mulhouse-to-saint-legier-la-chiesaz) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=B%C3%A2le+%2F+Mulhouse&to=Saint-L%C3%A9gier-La+Chi%C3%A9saz) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Saint-L%C3%A9gier-La%20Chi%C3%A9saz) 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 Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz 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 Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get in Take bus 1 from Montreux or Chateau de Chillon to Vevey's city centre and funicular. From [Wikivoyage: Vevey](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Vevey), 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 83 km 2. [Cinque Terre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cinque-terre) IT 7 ways of moving, 23 sources 341 km 3. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 763 km 4. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 769 km 5. [Hvar](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hvar) HR 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 843 km If you know how people move in Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Csaint-legier-la-chiesaz&title=Saint-L%C3%A9gier-La+Chi%C3%A9saz&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fsaint-legier-la-chiesaz), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz - [La Tour-de-Peilz](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/la-tour-de-peilz) municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland 2.3 km - [Corsier-sur-Vevey](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/corsier-sur-vevey) municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland 2.6 km - [Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut District](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/riviera-pays-denhaut-district) district of the canton of Vaud, Switzerland 2.6 km - [Corseaux](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/corseaux) municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland 3.8 km - [Blonay](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/blonay) village in the municipality of Blonay - Saint-Légier in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland 1.3 km - [Jongny](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/jongny) municipality in Switzerland 3.7 km [The place page for Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/saint-legier-la-chiesaz) [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/saint-legier-la-chiesaz, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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