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Municipality in Valais, Switzerland

Vouvry

Vouvry is a municipality in the district of Monthey in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

Vouvry
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The place

Vouvry is a municipality in the district of Monthey in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Vouvry

4 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
    Lake Taney

    Lac de Taney is a lake in Valais, Switzerland. Its surface area is 17 ha.

    3.6 km · Landscape/natural monument of national importance in Switzerland · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Tauredunum event

    The Tauredunum event of 563 AD was a tsunami on Lake Geneva, triggered by a massive landslide which caused widespread devastation and loss of life along the lakeshore. According to two contemporary chroniclers, the disaster was caused by the collapse of a mountainside at a place called Tauredunum at the eastern end of Lake Geneva.

    3.6 km · ancient Tsunami on Lake Geneva · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    3.7 km · mountain of the Chablais Alps, located west of Torgon in the canton of Valais · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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 km · mountain in Switzerland · Wikipedia

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 Vouvry

Airports
Geneva (GVA), 60 km · Turin (TRN), 139 km · EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 149 km
Stations
Les Evouettes railway station, 3.3 km · Vionnaz railway station, 3.2 km · Vouvry railway station, 1.2 km
  • Geneva → Vouvry
    59 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · CHF11–15
  • Zurich → Vouvry
    170 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · CHF23–31
  • Caselle Torinese (TO) → Vouvry
    142 km · quickest by road, 3h 21m · €22–30
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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 Vouvry

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 Vouvry. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    75 km
  2. 02
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 23 sources

    330 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    773 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    784 km
  5. 05
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    837 km

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

Around it

Next door to Vouvry

  • Port-Valaismunicipality in the canton of Valais, Switzerland3.9 km
  • Chesselmunicipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland2 km
  • Rochemunicipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland3.2 km
  • Vionnazmunicipality in the canton of Valais, Switzerland2.3 km
  • Torgonvillage in the municipality of Vionnaz in the canton of Valais, Switzerland1.7 km