Thalwil
Thalwil is a municipality and town in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
Thalwil is a municipality and town in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. The municipality includes two parts: Thalwil and Gattikon.
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Worth seeing in and around Thalwil
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.
- 01Bürglen
The Bürglen is the highest mountain of the Albis, a wooded range stretching west of Lake Zurich in the Swiss canton of Zurich. It is located between Hausen am Albis and the valley of the Sihl.
3.6 km · mountain in Switzerland · Wikipedia - 02Albis Pass
Albis Pass is a mountain pass in the Albis range in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
3.4 km · mountain pass · Wikipedia - 03Zimmerberg
The Zimmerberg ) is a mountain and a region in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland.
1.4 km · mountain · Wikipedia - 04C. G. Jung residence
The C. G. Jung House Museum is a historic house museum. It was the residence of the Swiss psychiatrist, psychologist, and essayist Carl Jung as well as his wife, psychologist Emma Jung-Rauschenbach.
3.3 km · residential building in Küsnacht in the canton of Zurich Switzerland · Wikipedia - 05Park im Grüene
Park im Grüene is a public park and a small amusement park in the municipality of Rüschlikon in Switzerland. The park area comprises the former estate of Adele and Gottlieb Duttweiler that went to public use in 1947.
2.2 km · Amusement park in Rüschlikon, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 06Goldcoast
The Swiss Goldcoast is the name given to the lower eastern shore of the Lake Zurich in the Swiss canton of Zurich. This prosperous region lies on the north-eastern shore of the lake and thus benefits from the evening sun.
3.3 km · eastern shore of the Lake of Zürich · Wikipedia - 07Zürcher Museums-Bahn
The Zürcher Museums-Bahn is a heritage railway association based in the Swiss city of Zurich. It operates occasional services over the Sihltal line of the Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn, and preserves rolling stock, much of which formerly belonged to that operator.
1.7 km · museum in Switzerland · Wikipedia - 08IBM Research – Zurich
IBM Research is the research and development division for IBM, an American multinational information technology company. IBM Research is headquartered at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, near IBM headquarters in Armonk, New York.
3.4 km · research institute in Rüschlikon, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 09castle ruins "Schnabelburg" and other fortifications
Schnabelburg Castle was a small castle erected in 1150 by the lords of Eschenbach on the Albis chain southwest of Zürich, Switzerland, overlooking the nearby Schnabellücken pass. In 1309 the Schnabelburg was attacked by the Habsburgs, in revenge for the participation of Walter von Eschenbach in the murder of Albert I of Germany.
3.4 km · castle ruins in Hausen am Albis in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 10Langenberg Wildlife Park
Langenberg Wildlife Park is a zoo situated in the municipality of Langnau am Albis in the Sihl Valley to the south of the city of Zürich in Switzerland. The wildlife park now forms part of the Zürich Wilderness Park.
3 km · zoo in south of Zürich, Switzerland · Wikipedia
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Getting to Thalwil
- Airports
- Zürich (ZRH), 19 km · Bodensee Friedrichshafen (FDH), 83 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 86 km
- Stations
- Thalwil railway station, 1.4 km · Horgen railway station, 3.3 km · Langnau-Gattikon railway station, 1.7 km · Rüschlikon railway station, 2.8 km · Sihlwald railway station, 1.8 km
- Geneva → Thalwil220 km · quickest by road, 4h 14m · CHF30–40
- Friedrichshafen → Thalwil80 km · quickest by road, 3h · €15–20
- Bâle / Mulhouse → Thalwil105 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · €14–20
- 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 Thalwil
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 Thalwil. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextA bit further away, but also worth a day trip: Appenzell — As close to the stereotypical image of Switzerland with wooden farm houses and traditional clothes as it gets.
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Next door to Thalwil
Thalwil is 9 km from Zürich, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Horgenmunicipality in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland3.4 km
- Erlenbachmunicipality in Switzerland3 km
- Rüschlikonmunicipality in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland2.9 km
- Langnau am Albismunicipality in Switzerland2 km
- Oberriedenmunicipality in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland1.1 km
- Feldmeilenvillage in the municipality of Meilen in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland3.8 km