Ollon

Ollon is a municipality in the district of Aigle in the canton of in , sited in the foothills of the mountains to the south-east of the Lake of Geneva. The old German language name Olun is no longer used.
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  • Type: Village with 7,430 residents
  • Description: municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland
  • Also known as: “CH5409” and “Ollon VD”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Aigle railway station and Ollon station.

Railway station
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is a railway station in the municipality of , in the canton of Vaud. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Simplon line of Swiss Federal Railways and the terminus of three 1,000 mm gauge lines operated by Transports Publics du Chablais: the Aigle–Leysin, Aigle–Ollon–Monthey–Champéry, and Aigle–Sépey–Diablerets lines.

Railway station
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is a railway station.

Ruins
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The Saint Blaise Chapel is an historic ruin located in the hamlet of in . This romanesque style chapel, which existed still at least 1174, was partially restored in 2009.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Villars-sur-Ollon and Leysin.

Photo: בידל הפייטן, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village in in the canton of . It is part of the municipality of Ollon. Villars is a ski resort close to and , which offers a reasonable range of pistes at a moderate altitude.

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, in the commune of Vaud is a laid back, non-posh, non-pretentious mountain village in the Vaud Alps, above . It also happens to be the site of a ski resort with awesome off piste possibilities.

Town
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is a historic town and a municipality and the capital of the district of in the canton of in . The official language of is Swiss French.

Ollon

Latitude
46.2972° or 46° 17′ 50″ north
Longitude
6.995° or 6° 59′ 42″ east
Population
7,430
Elevation
1,336 metres (4,383 feet)
Open location code
8FR87XWW+V2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 240123611
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2659299
Wiki­data ID
Q70115
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Welsh—“Ollon” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Օլլոոն”
  • Arpitan: “Oulon”
  • Arpitan: “Oulou”
  • Basque: “Ollon”
  • Breton: “Ollon”
  • Catalan: “Ollon”
  • Cebuano: “Ollon (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Ollon”
  • Chinese: “奥隆”
  • Chinese: “欧隆”
  • Czech: “Ollon”
  • Danish: “Ollon”
  • Dutch: “Ollon”
  • Esperanto: “Ollon VD”
  • Esperanto: “Ollon”
  • French: “Ollon VD”
  • French: “Ollon”
  • German: “Chesières”
  • German: “Ollon VD”
  • German: “Ollon”
  • German: “Olun”
  • German: “Verchiez”
  • Hebrew: “אולון”
  • Hungarian: “Ollon”
  • Irish: “Ollon”
  • Italian: “Ollon VD”
  • Italian: “Ollon”
  • Korean: “올롱”
  • Lithuanian: “Olonas”
  • Lombard: “Ollon”
  • Macedonian: “Ојон”
  • Malay: “Ollon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ollon”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ollon”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ollon”
  • Polish: “Ollon”
  • Portuguese: “Ollon”
  • Romanian: “Ollon”
  • Romansh: “Ollon”
  • Russian: “Оллон”
  • Spanish: “Ollon VD”
  • Spanish: “Ollon”
  • Swedish: “Ollon, Schweiz”
  • Swedish: “Ollon”
  • Swiss German: “Ollon”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Ollon”
  • Turkish: “Ollon”
  • Ukrainian: “Олон”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Ollon”
  • Urdu: “اولون”
  • Venetian: “Ollon”
  • Volapük: “Ollon”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ollon”
  • Welsh: “Ollon”
  • “Ollon”
  • “Ollon VD”

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