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Sense District

Sense District is one of the seven administrative districts of the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland, and the only completely German-speaking one.

Sense District
Sense District · Diego Delso
The place

Sense District is one of the seven administrative districts of the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland, and the only completely German-speaking one. It is named after the Sense river, which forms the majority of its eastern border with the canton of Bern.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Sense District

3 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
    Grandfey Viaduct

    The Grandfey-Viaduct is on the railway line from Bern to Fribourg and is one of the largest bridges in Switzerland.

    3.9 km · Railroad bridge over the lake Schiffenen between Düdingen and Granges-Paccot in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Poya Bridge

    Poya Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge in Fribourg, Switzerland. The bridge is 851.6 metres in overall length with a 196 m main span over the Sarine River, which is the longest main span in Switzerland.

    3.9 km · bridge in Fribourg, Switzerland · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Pont de Berne

    The Pont de Berne is a covered bridge on the Sarine river, located in the canton of Fribourg, in Switzerland.

    3.8 km · bridge in Switzerland · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Sense District

Airports
EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 90 km · Geneva (GVA), 106 km · Zürich (ZRH), 124 km
  • Bâle / Mulhouse → Sense District
    101 km · quickest by road, 2h 51m · €15–21
  • Strasbourg → Sense District
    196 km · quickest by road, 3h 50m · €26–36
  • Colombier-Saugnieu, Rhône → Sense District
    212 km · quickest by road, 4h 26m · €31–44
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Sense District

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 Sense District. 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

    97 km
  2. 02
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    357 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    736 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    758 km
  5. 05
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    835 km

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

Around it

Next door to Sense District

  • Düdingenmunicipality in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland4 km
  • St. Ursenmunicipality in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland3.2 km