Vaud
Riviera-Pays-d’Enhaut District
Montreux

Glion

Glion is a village in the municipality of in the canton of , . The village is located 700 meters above sea level, overlooking .
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  • Type: Village
  • Description: locality above Montreux, Vaud, Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Glion sur Montreux”
  • Postal code: 1823

Places of Interest

Highlights include Glion-Alpes railway station and Glion station.

Railway stop
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is a railway stop.

Railway station
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is a railway station.

Railway station
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is the largest of the railway stations serving the municipality of , in the canton of Vaud, . All of the SBB-CFF-FFS standard gauge passenger trains operating on the Simplon line call at this station, which is also the western terminus of the GoldenPass Line narrow gauge railway lines to and to .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Caux and Territet.

Village
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is a small village in the Canton of Vaud, which is part of the municipality. It looks out over Lake Geneva from an altitude of 1000 meters.

Village
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is a locality which is part of the Montreux commune, in the canton, Switzerland.

Village
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is a municipality in the district in the canton of in . The across the Avenue de Chillon on provides a view of the entire lake looking westward.

Glion

Latitude
46.43344° or 46° 26′ 0″ north
Longitude
6.92655° or 6° 55′ 36″ east
Elevation
714 metres (2,343 feet)
Open location code
8FR8CWMG+9J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 974936459
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2660581
Wiki­data ID
Q688497
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Glion” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “غليون”
  • Armenian: “Գլիոն”
  • Belarusian: “Гліён”
  • Chinese: “格利永”
  • Czech: “Glion”
  • Danish: “Glion”
  • Dutch: “Glion”
  • Finnish: “Glion sur Montreux”
  • Finnish: “Glion”
  • French: “Glion”
  • German: “Glion”
  • Hungarian: “Glion”
  • Italian: “Glion”
  • Japanese: “グリヨン”
  • Polish: “Glion”
  • Romanian: “Glion”
  • Romansh: “Glion”
  • Russian: “Глион”
  • Sicilian: “Glion”
  • Slovenian: “Glion”
  • Spanish: “Glion”
  • Swedish: “Glion sur Montreux”
  • Swedish: “Glion, Montreux”
  • Swedish: “Glion”
  • Ukrainian: “Гліон”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Glion”. Photo: Traumrune, CC BY-SA 3.0.