--- title: "Villeneuve – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Villeneuve, Switzerland: village. Nearby: Chillon Castle, Île de Peilz, Malatraix. Every way there from the planner, and what we have not yet researched." url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/villeneuve" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/villeneuve.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- Village · Switzerland · Vaud # Villeneuve What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Villeneuve 7 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. Chillon Castle Chillon Castle ʃijɔ̃\]) is a medieval island castle located on Lake Geneva, south of Veytaux in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It is situated at the eastern end of the lake, on the narrow shore between Montreux and Villeneuve, which gives access to the Alpine valley of the Rhône. 1.7 km · moated castle in Veytaux in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chillon_Castle) 2. Île de Peilz The Île de Peilz is a minute island at the eastern end of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, close to Villeneuve, Vaud. Measuring a few dozen square metres and featuring a monumental London plane tree, it is the smallest and the only natural island in the lake. 1 km · an islet situated at the eastern end of Lake Geneva · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Ele_de_Peilz) 3. Malatraix The Malatraix is a mountain and ridge of the Swiss Prealps, overlooking Lake Geneva in the canton of Vaud. The summit is 1,931 metres high, while the rocky part of the southwestern ridge culminates at 1,768 metres. 3.7 km · mountain in Switzerland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malatraix) 4. Queen: The Studio Experience Queen: The Studio Experience is a museum in Montreux, Switzerland, dedicated to the British rock group Queen. It is located in the former Mountain Studios in the Casino Barrière de Montreux. 3.6 km · museum in Montreux, Switzerland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen:_The_Studio_Experience) 5. Glion Institute of Higher Education The Glion Institute of Higher Education provides instruction in hospitality management, with campuses in Switzerland and the United Kingdom. 3.8 km · university · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glion_Institute_of_Higher_Education) 6. Fort de Chillon The Fort de Chillon is a twentieth-century fortification directly adjacent to the medieval Château de Chillon on the edge of Lake Geneva in Switzerland. The fort secures the road and rail lines that pass along the lakeshore running east from Lausanne to the mountainous interior of Switzerland. 1.7 km · twentieth-century fortification adjacent to Chillon Castle, Switzerland · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_de_Chillon) 7. Former Grand Hotel, Hotel des Alpes The Hôtel des Alpes-Grand Hôtel or Résidence des Alpes is an assemblage of former palace buildings in the village of Territet, which is a part of Montreux in Switzerland. 3 km · hotel building complex in Territet in the municipality of Montreux in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B4tel_des_Alpes-Grand_H%C3%B4tel) 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 Villeneuve **Airports:** Geneva (GVA), 65 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 141 km · Turin (TRN), 145 km\ **Stations:** Territet railway station, 3.1 km · Veytaux-Chillon railway station, 2.1 km · Villeneuve railway station, 100 m\ - Geneva → Villeneuve 64 km · quickest by road, 1h 24m · CHF11–14 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/geneva-to-villeneuve) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Geneva&to=Villeneuve) - Zurich → Villeneuve 164 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · CHF23–30 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/zurich-to-villeneuve) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Zurich&to=Villeneuve) - Bâle / Mulhouse → Villeneuve Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bale-mulhouse-to-villeneuve) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=B%C3%A2le+%2F+Mulhouse&to=Villeneuve) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Villeneuve) 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 Villeneuve 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 Villeneuve. 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 company, which operates 1/3 of the Golden Pass route to Lucerne along with the BLS and the Zentralbahn brought under its sales banner, the cog-wheel Montreux - Glion - Rochers-de-Naye Railway and its associated funicular from nearby Territet, the Les Avants - Sonloup funicular and the lines of the former CEV from Vevey into the hills. From [Wikivoyage: Montreux](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Montreux), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Zermatt](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zermatt) CH 8 ways of moving, 26 sources 76 km 2. [Cinque Terre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/cinque-terre) IT 7 ways of moving, 23 sources 333 km 3. [Isle of Wight](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-wight) GB 11 ways of moving, 22 sources 770 km 4. [Vlieland](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vlieland) NL 10 ways of moving, 47 sources 777 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 Villeneuve – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cvilleneuve&title=Villeneuve&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fvilleneuve), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Villeneuve - [Veytaux](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/veytaux) municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland 2.5 km - [Noville](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/noville) municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland 2.7 km - [Rennaz](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/rennaz) municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland 3.6 km - [Glion](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/glion) village in Montreux in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland 3.8 km - [Caux](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/caux) village in the municipality of Montreux in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland 3.9 km - [Territet](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/territet) village and city district of Montreux in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland 2.9 km [The place page for Villeneuve](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/villeneuve) [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/villeneuve, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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