Cape au Moine
The Cape au Moine is a mountain of the Swiss Prealps, located on the border between the cantons of Vaud and Fribourg. It lies north of the Col de Jaman and south of the Col de Soladier, among of a crest of peaks extending roughly north into Fribourg to the Dent de Lys, on the range between Lake Geneva and the valley of Gruyère.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Touriste, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Vanil des Artses and Col de Soladier.
Vanil des Artses
Peak
Photo: Touriste, Public domain.
The Vanil des Artses is a mountain of the Swiss Prealps, located west of Montbovon in the canton of Fribourg. It is among a crest of peaks extending south of the Dent de Lys to the Cape au Moine on the border between the Cantons of Vaud and Fribourg, which in turn is just north of the Col de Jaman from Rochers de Naye, all lying on the range between Lake Geneva and the valley of Gruyère.
Col de Soladier
Photo: Björn S..., CC BY-SA 2.0.
The col de Soladier is a mountain pass in the canton de Vaud, in Switzerland. It is located 1 km west of a ridge linking the Vanil des Artses and the Cape au Moine, and east of Le Molard.
Dent de Jaman
Peak
Photo: Espandero, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Dent de Jaman is a mountain above Montreux, situated north of the Rochers de Naye. In August 1830 three Polish romantic poets, Adam Mickiewicz, Zygmunt Krasiński and Antoni Edward Odyniec, climbed the mountain together.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Les Avants and Saleuscex.
Les Avants
Village
Photo: Scotlandyard, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Les Avants is a village in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is located in the municipality of Montreux, in the east of the canton, in the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut. It lies 3.5 km north-east of the town of Montreux and 25 km east of Lausanne.
Caux
Village
Photo: Mykola Swarnyk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Caux is a small village in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland which is part of the Montreux municipality. It looks out over Lake Geneva from an altitude of 1000 meters.
Cape au Moine
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,941 metres
- Description: mountain of the Fribourg Prealps
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Haut-Intyamon, Gruyère District, Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.47032° or 46° 28′ 13″ northLongitude
6.97884° or 6° 58′ 44″ eastElevation
1,941 metres (6,368 feet)Open location code
8FR8FXCH+4GOpenStreetMap ID
node 415767239OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Cape au Moine” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كابي أو مويني”
- Cebuano: “Cape au Moine”
- Chinese: “穆瓦訥峰”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل كابى او موينى”
- French: “Cape au Moine”
- German: “Cape au Moine”
- Indonesian: “Cape au Moine”
- Ladin: “Cape au Moine”
- Persian: “کپ او موان”
- Swedish: “Cape au Moine, Montreux”
- Swedish: “Cape au Moine”
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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 “Cape au Moine”. Photo: Touriste, Public domain.