--- title: "Savigny – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Savigny, Switzerland: village. Nearby: Mont de Gourze, Tower of Gourze. Every way there from the planner, and what we have not yet researched." url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/savigny" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/savigny.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- Village · Switzerland · Vaud # Savigny What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Savigny 2 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. Mont de Gourze Mont de Gourze ) is a mountain in Switzerland, overlooking Lake Geneva in the canton of Vaud. On the summit is located the medieval lookout tower of Gourze. 3.1 km · mountain of the Swiss Plateau · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_de_Gourze) 2. Tower of Gourze The tower of Gourze is the remnants of a medieval lookout tower on the Mont de Gourze in the Swiss canton of Vaud. A square tower, it is approximately 9 metres tall and has views over Lake Geneva. 3.1 km · observation tower in Riex in the Swiss canton of Vaud · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Gourze) 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 Savigny **Airports:** Geneva (GVA), 58 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 132 km · Lyon Saint-Exupéry (LYS), 155 km\ - Geneva → Savigny 59 km · quickest by road, 1h 6m · CHF8–11 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/geneva-to-savigny) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Geneva&to=Savigny) - Zurich → Savigny 166 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · CHF21–28 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/zurich-to-savigny) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Zurich&to=Savigny) - Bâle / Mulhouse → Savigny Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bale-mulhouse-to-savigny) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=B%C3%A2le+%2F+Mulhouse&to=Savigny) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Savigny) 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 Savigny 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 Savigny. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get around There is also a funicular from Vevey to Mont-Pelerin station (where you can walk in perhaps 1.5 hours to the Mont-Pelerin summit at 1080 m which has a viewing tower), a train from Vevey to Les Pleiades (1360 m), and several others. - Get around Groups can charter the Petit Train outside of the normal schedule for a starting price of Fr. 200, which is a good deal if you have a group of 34 (the maximum capacity of the train). From [Wikivoyage: Lavaux](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Lavaux), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-04. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 97 km 2. [Cinque Terre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cinque-terre) IT 7 ways of moving, 23 sources 355 km 3. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 749 km 4. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 759 km 5. [Hvar](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hvar) HR 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 856 km If you know how people move in Savigny – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Csavigny&title=Savigny&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fsavigny), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Savigny - [Lutry](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/lutry) municipality in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland 3.6 km - [Belmont-sur-Lausanne](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/belmont-sur-lausanne) municipality in Switzerland 3.7 km - [Forel](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/forel) municipality in Switzerland 2.3 km [The place page for Savigny](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/savigny) [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/savigny, 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. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt