Western Switzerland
Vaud
Lavaux-Oron District

Chexbres

Chexbres is a municipality in the canton of , located in the district of . Chexbres is a wine-growing village and enjoys a good selection of local vintages.
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  • Type: Village with 2,190 residents
  • Description: municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland
  • Also known as: “CH5601” and “Chexbres VD”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Puidoux railway station and Moreillon railway station.

Railway station
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, also known as Puidoux-Chexbres railway station, is a railway station in the municipality of , in the canton of Vaud.

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 Lausanne–Bern line of Swiss Federal Railways.

Peak
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is a mountain of the Swiss Plateau, overlooking in the canton of . It lies north of , over , the border with the canton of running at the eastern foot of the mountain. is situated 3½ km northeast of Chexbres.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lavaux and Vevey.

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is internationally famous as a terraced wine-growing region on the shores of Lake Geneva in western . It covers the territory roughly from to , extending to an altitude of roughly 500 meters above lake level and including 6 lake shore villages and the city of .

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is a town in in the , on the north shore of Lake Leman, near . The German name Vivis is no longer commonly used.

Village
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is a municipality in in the canton of , located in the district of .

Chexbres

Latitude
46.481° or 46° 28′ 51″ north
Longitude
6.7803° or 6° 46′ 49″ east
Population
2,190
Elevation
626 metres (2,054 feet)
Open location code
8FR8FQJJ+94
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1732921345
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
7285507
Wiki­data ID
Q52818
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In Other Languages

From Arpitan to Waray—“Chexbres” goes by many names.
  • Arpitan: “Chèbres”
  • Basque: “Chexbres”
  • Breton: “Chexbres”
  • Catalan: “Chexbres”
  • Cebuano: “Chexbres (munisipyo)”
  • Cebuano: “Chexbres”
  • Chinese: “谢布尔”
  • Czech: “Chexbres”
  • Danish: “Chexbres”
  • Dutch: “Chexbres”
  • Esperanto: “Chexbres”
  • French: “Chexbres”
  • German: “Chexbres”
  • Hungarian: “Chexbres”
  • Irish: “Chexbres”
  • Italian: “Chexbres”
  • Japanese: “チェクスブール”
  • Korean: “셰브르”
  • Lombard: “Chexbres”
  • Malay: “Chexbres”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chexbres”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chexbres”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Chexbres”
  • Polish: “Chexbres”
  • Portuguese: “Chexbres”
  • Romanian: “Chexbres”
  • Romansh: “Chexbres”
  • Spanish: “Chexbres”
  • Swedish: “Chexbres”
  • Swiss German: “Chexbres”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Chexbres”
  • Turkish: “Chexbres”
  • Ukrainian: “Шебр”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Chexbres”
  • Venetian: “Chexbres”
  • Volapük: “Chexbres”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chexbres”

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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 “Chexbres”. Photo: Monsoleiiil, CC BY-SA 3.0.