Avenches
Avenches is a town of about 3,000 people in the Three Lakes area of Switzerland. Avenches is noted for the Roman ruins that remain from the time when the area was a major Roman outpost.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 4,880 residents
- Description: municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland
- Also known as: “Avenches VD”
- Postal code: 1580
Places of Interest
Highlights include Avenches railway station and Avenches Castle.
Avenches railway station
Railway station
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Avenches railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Avenches, in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Palézieux–Lyss line of Swiss Federal Railways.
Avenches Castle
Castle
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Avenches Castle is a castle in the municipality of Avenches of the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Domdidier and Villarepos.
Domdidier
Village
Photo: Semplicementecosi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Domdidier is a former municipality in the district of Broye, in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. On 1 January 2016, the former municipalities of Domdidier, Dompierre, Léchelles and Russy merged to form Belmont-Broye.
Villarepos
Village
Villarepos is a former municipality in the district of See in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. In 2017 the former municipalities of Villarepos, Barberêche and Wallenried merged into the municipality of Courtepin.
Donatyre
Village
Photo: Odrade123, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Donatyre is a village in the district of Avenches of the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland. Since losing its status as an independent municipality on 1 July 2006, it has been part of the municipality of Avenches.
Avenches
- Categories: Municipality of Switzerland and locality
- Location: Broye-Vully District, Vaud, Western Switzerland, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.8796° or 46° 52′ 47″ northLongitude
7.0409° or 7° 2′ 27″ eastPopulation
4,880Elevation
480 metres (1,575 feet)United Nations Location Code
CH AVEOpen location code
8FR9V2HR+R9OpenStreetMap ID
node 1425180889OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Waray—“Avenches” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Ավանշ”
- Arpitan: “Avencho”
- Basque: “Avenches”
- Breton: “Avenches”
- Breton: “Aventso”
- Catalan: “Avenches”
- Cebuano: “Avenches”
- Chinese: “阿旺什”
- Czech: “Avenches”
- Dutch: “Avenches”
- Egyptian Arabic: “افخم”
- Esperanto: “Avenches”
- French: “Avenches VD”
- French: “Avenches”
- Galician: “Avenches”
- German: “Avenches VD”
- German: “Avenches”
- Greek: “Αβάνς”
- Hungarian: “Avenches”
- Irish: “Avenches”
- Italian: “Avenches VD”
- Italian: “Avenches”
- Japanese: “アヴァンシェ”
- Japanese: “アヴァンシュ”
- Korean: “아방슈”
- Kurdish: “Avenches”
- Latin: “Aventicum”
- Lombard: “Avenches”
- Malay: “Avenches”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Avenches”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Avenches”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Avenches”
- Persian: “اوانش”
- Polish: “Avenches”
- Portuguese: “Avenches”
- Romanian: “Avenches”
- Romansh: “Avenches”
- Russian: “Аванш”
- Russian: “Ава́нш”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Avenches”
- Sicilian: “Avenches”
- Slovenian: “Avenches”
- Spanish: “Avenches”
- Swedish: “Avenches”
- Swiss German: “Avenches”
- Tosk Albanian: “Avenches”
- Turkish: “Avenches”
- Ukrainian: “Аванш”
- Upper Sorbian: “Avenches”
- Venetian: “Avenches”
- Volapük: “Avenches”
- Waray (Philippines): “Avenches”
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