Chandon
Chandon was a former commune in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. On 1 January 1994 it merged with Léchelles to form Léchelles.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in Switzerland
- Also known as: “Chandon FR”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Grolley railway station and Léchelles railway station.
Grolley railway station
Railway station
Grolley railway station is a railway station in the former municipality of Grolley, in the Swiss canton of Fribourg. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Fribourg–Yverdon line of Swiss Federal Railways.
Léchelles railway station
Railway stop
Léchelles railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Belmont-Broye, in the Swiss canton of Fribourg. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Fribourg–Yverdon line of Swiss Federal Railways. Léchelles railway station is situated 3 km southwest of Chandon.
Saint-Didier parish church
Church
Photo: Marc wik, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Saint-Didier parish church is situated 4 km northwest of Chandon.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Grolley and Oleyres.
Grolley
Village
Photo: DidiWeidmann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Grolley is a former municipality in the district of Sarine in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. On 1 January 2025 the former municipalities of Grolley and Ponthaux merged to form the new municipality of Grolley-Ponthaux.
Oleyres
Village
Oleyres is a former municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud in the district of Broye-Vully. On 1 July 2011 it was merged into the municipality of Avenches.
Chandon
- Categories: former municipality of Switzerland, village, and locality
- Location: Belmont-Broye, Broye District, Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.83943° or 46° 50′ 22″ northLongitude
7.04802° or 7° 2′ 53″ eastElevation
525 metres (1,722 feet)Open location code
8FR9R2QX+Q6OpenStreetMap ID
node 1340163268OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Turkish—“Chandon” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “Chandon”
- Dutch: “Chandon”
- French: “Chandon (Fribourg)”
- French: “Chandon FR”
- French: “Chandon”
- German: “Candone”
- German: “Chandon FR”
- German: “Chandone”
- German: “Chandun”
- Irish: “Chandon”
- Italian: “Chandon (Belmont-Broye)”
- Italian: “Chandon”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chandon”
- Turkish: “Chandon”
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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 “Chandon”. Photo: Michael D. Schmid, CC BY-SA 4.0.