Montbovon
Montbovon is a village in Haut-Intyamon, Gruyère District, Canton of Fribourg and has about 250 residents. Montbovon is situated nearby to the locality Cresset, as well as near Les Recards.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 250 residents
- Description: former municipality and village in Haut-Intyamon in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Montbovon (Haut-Intyamon)”
- Postal code: 1669
Places of Interest
Highlights include Montbovon railway station and Les Sciernes railway station.
Montbovon railway station
Railway station
Photo: Remontees, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Montbovon railway station, is a railway station in the municipality of Haut-Intyamon, in the Swiss canton of Fribourg. It is the terminus station on the 1,000 mm metre gauge Palézieux–Bulle–Montbovon railway line of Transports publics Fribourgeois and an intermediate stop on the Montreux–Lenk im Simmental line of Montreux Oberland Bernois Railway.
Lac de Lessoc
Reservoir
Photo: Tschubby, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lac de Lessoc is a reservoir on the Saane/Sarine river between Lessoc and Montbovon in the Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. The lake's surface area is 20 ha. The Lessoc dam with a height of 33 m was completed in 1976.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lessoc and Albeuve.
Albeuve
Village
Photo: Roland Zumbuehl, CC BY 3.0.
Albeuve is a village, which is situated 3½ km north of Montbovon.
Rossinière
Village
Photo: Zacharie Grossen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rossinière is a municipality in the Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut district of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. Rossinière is situated 4 km southeast of Montbovon.
Montbovon
- Categories: former municipality of Switzerland, neighborhood, and locality
- Location: Haut-Intyamon, Gruyère District, Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.48768° or 46° 29′ 16″ northLongitude
7.04364° or 7° 2′ 37″ eastPopulation
250Elevation
797 metres (2,615 feet)Open location code
8FR9F2QV+3FOpenStreetMap ID
node 1431695165OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2659621Wikidata ID
Q1945652
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Upper Sorbian—“Montbovon” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Монтбовон”
- Cebuano: “Montbovon”
- Dutch: “Montbovon”
- French: “Montbovon (Haut-Intyamon)”
- French: “Montbovon”
- German: “Les Cases”
- German: “Montbovon (Haut-Intyamon)”
- German: “Montbovon”
- Irish: “Montbovon”
- Italian: “Montbovon (Haut-Intyamon)”
- Italian: “Montbovon”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Montbovon”
- Swedish: “Montbovon”
- Turkish: “Montbovon”
- Upper Sorbian: “Montbovon”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Le vieux chalet and Cimetière de Montbovon.
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