La Vounaise
La Vounaise is a village and former municipality in the district of Broye in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. In 1981 the municipality was incorporated into the larger, neighboring municipality Murist.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include La Molière, medieval castle and fortress ruins and Ruins of the Château de Font and summer residence of the Bailiff of Font-Vuissens.
Ruins of the Château de Font and summer residence of the Bailiff of Font-Vuissens
Castle
Photo: Christophe95, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ruins of the Château de Font and summer residence of the Bailiff of Font-Vuissens is a castle, which is situated 3½ km north of La Vounaise.
Cheyres railway station
Railway stop
Photo: NAC, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cheyres railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Cheyres, in the Swiss canton of Fribourg. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Fribourg–Yverdon line of Swiss Federal Railways. Cheyres railway station is situated 2½ km northwest of La Vounaise.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Franex and Murist.
Franex
Hamlet
Photo: Sinenomine2, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Franex is a village and former municipality in the district of Broye in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. It was first recorded in 1242 as Frasnei. The municipality had 84 inhabitants in 1811, which increased to 131 in 1850.
Murist
Village
Photo: Christophe95, CC0.
Murist is a former municipality in the district of Broye, in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. Its territory was enlarged in 1981 with the formerly independent municipalities La Vounaise and Montborget, and in 1992 with Franex.
Seiry
Village
Photo: Christophe95, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Seiry is a village lying within the municipality of Lully, in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. It formerly existed as an autonomous municipality, but on 1 January 2006 was merged with Bollion, into the larger Lully.
La Vounaise
- Type: Hamlet
- Categories: former municipality of Switzerland, Ortschaft, and locality
- Location: Estavayer, Broye District, Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.80379° or 46° 48′ 14″ northLongitude
6.81312° or 6° 48′ 47″ eastElevation
588 metres (1,929 feet)Open location code
8FR8RR37+G6OpenStreetMap ID
node 492074023OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Upper Sorbian—“La Vounaise” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “La Vounaise”
- Dutch: “La Vounaise”
- French: “La Vounaise”
- German: “La Vounaise”
- Irish: “La Vounaise”
- Italian: “La Vounaise”
- Min Nan Chinese: “La Vounaise”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “La Vounaise”
- Turkish: “La Vounaise”
- Upper Sorbian: “La Vounaise”
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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 “La Vounaise”. Photo: Michael D. Schmid, CC BY-SA 4.0.