--- title: "Torgon – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Torgon, Switzerland: Torgon is a village in the Swiss Alps, located in the canton of Valais. Nearby: Lake Taney, Tour de Don, La Braye. Every way there…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/torgon" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/torgon.md" image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Torgon.jpg" --- Place · Switzerland # Torgon Torgon is a village in the Swiss Alps, located in the canton of Valais. ![Torgon](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Torgon.jpg) Torgon · Wikimedia Commons The place 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torgon), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## 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. 1. Lake 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac_de_Taney) 2. Tour 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_de_Don) 3. La 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Braye_(Chablais_Alps%29) 4. Le 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_T%C3%A2che) 5. Haut 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haut_Sex) 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. Go there ## 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 → Torgon 58 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · CHF12–17 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/geneva-to-torgon) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Geneva&to=Torgon) - Zurich → Torgon 172 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · CHF24–33 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/zurich-to-torgon) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Zurich&to=Torgon) - Caselle Torinese (TO) → Torgon 140 km · quickest by road, 3h 27m · €23–32 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/caselle-torinese-to-to-torgon) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Caselle+Torinese+%28TO%29&to=Torgon) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Torgon) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## 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. What Wikivoyage says about moving around - Get around The TeleLeysin cable car \[http://www.teleleysin.ch\] runs both summer and winter. From [Wikivoyage: Leysin](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Leysin), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2025-07. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 75 km 2. [Cinque Terre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cinque-terre) IT 7 ways of moving, 23 sources 330 km 3. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 773 km 4. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 785 km 5. [Hvar](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/hvar) HR 8 ways of moving, 27 sources 837 km If you know how people move in Torgon – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Ctorgon&title=Torgon&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Ftorgon), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Torgon - [Chessel](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/chessel) municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland 3.6 km - [Vouvry](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vouvry) municipality in the canton of Valais, Switzerland 1.5 km - [Vionnaz](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vionnaz) municipality in the canton of Valais, Switzerland 1.9 km [The place page for Torgon](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/torgon) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Switzerland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-CH) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/torgon, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt