La Cure
La Cure is a village located some 20 kilometres northwest of Lake Geneva, straddling the Franco-Swiss border. Administratively, the Swiss half of La Cure is part of the municipality of Saint-Cergue, while the French half is part of the municipality of Les Rousses.Photo: Alexey M., CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village situated on the border between France and Switzerland
- Postal code: 1265
Places of Interest
Highlights include La Cure railway station and Hotel Arbez.
La Cure railway station
Railway station
Photo: Roland Zumbuehl, CC BY-SA 3.0.
La Cure railway station, is a railway station in the village of La Cure within the municipality of Saint-Cergue, in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It is the northern terminus of the 1,000 mm metre gauge Nyon–St-Cergue–Morez line of Chemin de fer Nyon–St-Cergue–Morez.
Hotel Arbez
Hotel
Photo: Roland Zumbuehl, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Hotel Arbez, also called the Hôtel Arbez Franco-Suisse or L'Arbézie, is a hotel that straddles the international border between France and Switzerland in the tiny village of La Cure, which is itself divided by the boundary.
Col de la Givrine
Mountain saddle
Photo: KlausFoehl, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Col de la Givrine is a high mountain pass in the Jura Mountains in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, near the border with France. It connects Nyon in Switzerland and Morez in France.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Les Rousses and Prémanon.
Les Rousses
Village
Photo: Liné1, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Les Rousses is a commune in the Canton of Hauts de Bienne of Jura department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France, on the Swiss border. Les Rousses is situated 2½ km northwest of La Cure.
Prémanon
Village
Photo: Patrub01, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Prémanon is a commune in the Jura department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. Prémanon is situated 3½ km west of La Cure.
La Mouille
Village
Photo: Nadege Bonnet Mathieu, CC BY-SA 4.0.
La Mouille is a former commune in the Jura department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Hauts de Bienne. La Mouille is situated 8 km northwest of La Cure.
La Cure
- Categories: human settlement, border city, town divided by border, Ortschaft, and locality
- Location: Saint-Cergue, Nyon District, Vaud, Western Switzerland, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.46497° or 46° 27′ 54″ northLongitude
6.07342° or 6° 4′ 24″ eastElevation
1,157 metres (3,796 feet)Open location code
8FR8F37F+X9OpenStreetMap ID
node 198153696OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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