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Schaan

Schaan is the largest municipality of Liechtenstein by population.

Schaan
Schaan · Wikimedia Commons
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Vaduz 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
  2. 02
    Vaduz Cathedral

    Vaduz Cathedral, or Cathedral of St. Florin (German: St.

    3.5 km · cathedral in Vaduz, Liechtenstein · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    University 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
  4. 04
    Kunstmuseum 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
  5. 05
    Liechtenstein 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
  6. 06
    Liechtenstein 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
  7. 07
    Postal 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
  8. 08
    Werdenberg 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
  9. 09
    Schalun 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
  10. 10
    Gafleispitz

    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

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.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Church of St Laurentius

From Wikivoyage: Schaan, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Theater am Kirchplatz

    Reberastrasse 10, fax: +423 237 59 61.

From Wikivoyage: Schaan, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

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 → Schaan
    54 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · €8–11
  • Zurich → Schaan
    76 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · CHF12–16
  • Memmingen → Schaan
    103 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · €12–17
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Not yet researched

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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    185 km
  2. 02
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    338 km
  3. 03
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    706 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    751 km
  5. 05
    KorčulaHR

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    759 km

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

Around it

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