Torgon
Torgon is a village in the Swiss Alps, located in the canton of Valais.
Torgon is a village in the Swiss Alps, located in the canton of Valais. It lies on the western part of the canton, in the region of the Chablais, at an altitude of 1,085 metres. The village sits on a sunny terrace overlooking the Rhone valley, above Vionnaz. Politically Torgon belongs to the latter town.
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Worth seeing in and around Torgon
5 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.
- 01Lake Taney
Lac de Taney is a lake in Valais, Switzerland. Its surface area is 17 ha.
4 km · Landscape/natural monument of national importance in Switzerland · Wikipedia - 02Tour de Don
The Tour de Don is a mountain of the Chablais Alps, located west of Vionnaz in the Swiss canton of Valais. The summit lies about 200 meters east of the border with France.
3.6 km · mountain in Switzerland · Wikipedia - 03La Braye
La Braye is a mountain of the Chablais Alps, located west of Torgon in the canton of Valais. It is the easternmost summit on the chain descending from Le Linleu.
2.8 km · mountain of the Chablais Alps, located west of Torgon in the canton of Valais · Wikipedia - 04Le Tâche
Le Tâche is a mountain of the Chablais Alps, overlooking the Rhone valley at Vouvry, in the canton of Valais. It lies east of the Lac de Taney.
3.5 km · mountain in Switzerland · Wikipedia - 05Haut Sex
The Haut Sex is a mountain of the Chablais Alps, located on the border between Switzerland and France. It lies north of the Tour de Don.
3.9 km · mountain in Switzerland · Wikipedia
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Getting to Torgon
- Airports
- Geneva (GVA), 60 km · Turin (TRN), 138 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 151 km
- Stations
- Vionnaz railway station, 3.1 km · Vouvry railway station, 2.5 km
- Geneva → Torgon58 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · CHF12–17
- Zurich → Torgon172 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · CHF24–33
- Caselle Torinese (TO) → Torgon140 km · quickest by road, 3h 27m · €23–32
- 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 Torgon
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 Torgon. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundThe TeleLeysin cable car [http://www.teleleysin.ch] runs both summer and winter.
From Wikivoyage: Leysin, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-07.
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