Schaan
Schaan is the largest municipality of Liechtenstein by population.

Schaan is the largest municipality of Liechtenstein by population. It is located to the north of Vaduz, the capital, in the central part of the country. As of 2019 it has a population of 6,039, making it the most populous administrative district in Liechtenstein. Representing an important traffic hub and industrial location of the country, Schaan covers an area of 26.92 km2 (10.39 mi2), including mountains and forest. It is a municipality within the electoral district of Oberland in the Principality of Liechtenstein. Schaan contains four exclaves: Brunnenegg, Gritsch, Guschg, and Plankner Neugrütt.
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Worth seeing in and around Schaan
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.
- 01Vaduz Castle
Vaduz Castle is the palace and official residence of the Prince of Liechtenstein. The castle gave its name to the town of Vaduz, the capital of Liechtenstein, which it overlooks from an adjacent hilltop.
3.2 km · palace and official residence of the Prince of Liechtenstein · Wikipedia - 02Vaduz Cathedral
Vaduz Cathedral, or Cathedral of St. Florin (German: St.
3.5 km · cathedral in Vaduz, Liechtenstein · Wikipedia - 03University of Liechtenstein
The University of Liechtenstein is a public research university located in Vaduz, serving as the national university of the Principality of Liechtenstein. It focuses on two fields of study – architecture and business economics.
1.9 km · A university in Liechtenstein · Wikipedia - 04Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
The Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein is a state art museum in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. The building by the Swiss architects Meinrad Morger, Heinrich Degelo and Christian Kerez was completed in November 2000.
3.2 km · art museum in Vaduz · Wikipedia - 05Liechtenstein State Library
The Liechtenstein State Library is the legal deposit and copyright library for Liechtenstein. It was established by law in 1961 by the National Library Foundation.
3.5 km · national library · Wikipedia - 06Liechtenstein National Museum
The Liechtenstein National Museum is a museum in Vaduz, the capital city of Liechtenstein.
3.3 km · historical museum in Vaduz (Liechtenstein) · Wikipedia - 07Postal Museum
The Postal Museum is a postal museum in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. It is a branch museum of Liechtenstein National Museum.
3.2 km · museum in Liechtenstein · Wikipedia - 08Werdenberg Castle
Werdenberg Castle is a castle in the municipality of Grabs of the Canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
3.6 km · castle in the tiny town of the same name in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 09Schalun Castle
Schalun Castle, also known colloquially as Wildschloss, is a castle ruin located in the municipality of Vaduz, Liechtenstein. It lies in the mountains, roughly 1 kilometer to the northeast from the town centre of Vaduz, the capital of Liechtenstein.
2.5 km · castle ruin located in the municipality of Vaduz, Liechtenstein · Wikipedia - 10Gafleispitz
Gafleispitz is a mountain in Liechtenstein in the Rätikon range of the Eastern Alps, to the east of Schaan, with a height of 2,000 metres.
3.5 km · mountain in Liechtenstein · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Church of St Laurentius
From Wikivoyage: Schaan, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Things to do
- 01Theater am Kirchplatz
Reberastrasse 10, fax: +423 237 59 61.
From Wikivoyage: Schaan, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Schaan
- Airports
- Bodensee Friedrichshafen (FDH), 56 km · Zürich (ZRH), 79 km · Memmingen Allgau (FMM), 106 km
- Stations
- Schaan-Vaduz railway station, 200 m · Buchs railway station, 2.4 km · Forst Hilti railway station, 1.8 km
- Friedrichshafen → Schaan54 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · €8–11
- Zurich → Schaan76 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · CHF12–16
- Memmingen → Schaan103 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · €12–17
- 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 Schaan
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 Schaan. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Schaan
- Eschenmunicipality of Liechtenstein3.7 km
- Plankenmunicipality of Liechtenstein2.6 km
- Buchsmunicipality in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland2.9 km
- Werdenberg Constituencydistrict in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland3.7 km
- Mühleholzvillage in Liechtenstein1.3 km
- Gafleivillage in Oberland, Liechtenstein3.7 km