Skip to content
Mixroutes
Montreux

Montreux

Montreux is a Swiss municipality and town on the shoreline of Lake Geneva at the foot of the Alps.

Plan a trip to Montreux From Geneva

It belongs to the Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut district in the canton of Vaud, having a population of nearly 27,000 with about 85,000 in the Vevey-Montreux agglomeration as of 2019.

Get in

Getting to Montreux

Geneva Cointrin International Airport (GVA IATA) is the closest major airport to Montreux, and serves direct flights from most major European hubs, as well as a few cities in Canada and the United States, North Africa, and the Middle East. From Geneva, it's a little more than an hour by car, and less than an hour by train. The railway station in Geneva is connected to Geneva International Airport.

  1. 01
    Montreux Gare

    Avenue des Alpes 45.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Château de Chillon

    Avenue de Chillon 21 (The castle is 45 minutes' walk from Montreux along the lakeside, or 4 minutes by train (Veytaux-Chillon station).),.

  2. 02
    Freddie Mercury

    Likely the best known statue in Montreux, the voice of the rock band Queen overlooking the lake.

  3. 03
    Queen the Studio Experience
  4. 04
    Casino Barrière de Montreux

    It was built in 1881, then rebuilt in the 1970s after a fire in 1971 which was immortalised by the Deep Purple classic "Smoke on the Water".

  5. 05
    Swiss Museum of Games
Do

Things to do

Cruises. Take a cruise on the unique Belle Epoque paddle steamers and discover Lavaux from the lake. Timetable at Compagnie Générale de Navigation's website. Take a journey at the "alpage".

How locals move

Getting around Montreux the local way

  • Get aroundThe 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, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.