Martigny
Martigny is a town in the French-speaking part of Valais. It lies in the Rhone valley and is one of the economic centres of the region.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 21,800 residents
- Description: municipality in the canton of Valais in Switzerland
- Also known as: “Martigny VS”
- Postal code: 1920
Places of Interest
Highlights include Martigny railway station and Fondation Pierre Gianadda.
Martigny railway station
Railway station
Photo: Tukka, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Martigny railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Martigny, in the Swiss canton of Valais. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Simplon line of Swiss Federal Railways and the junction of the 1,000 mm Martigny–Châtelard and standard gauge Martigny–Orsières lines of Transports de Martigny et Régions and RegionAlps, respectively.
Fondation Pierre Gianadda
Photo: Sylenius, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, inaugurated in 1978, administers museums and exhibitions located in Martigny, Switzerland. The permanent exhibitions include the Automobile Museum, Gallo-Roman Museum, Louis and Evelyn Franck Collection, Sculpture Park, and Chagall Court.
La Bâtiaz Castle
Photo: Espandero, CC BY-SA 4.0.
La Bâtiaz Castle is a castle in the municipality of Martigny, in the Canton of Valais, Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bovernier and Gorges du Durnand.
Bovernier
Village
Photo: Lysippos, CC BY-SA 2.0 de.
Bovernier is a municipality in the district of Martigny in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Gorges du Durnand
Locality
Photo: Gaelbourgeois, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gorges du Durnand is a locality, which is situated 3½ km south of Martigny.
Martigny
- Categories: Municipality of Switzerland, city of Switzerland, and locality
- Location: Martigny District, Valais, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.1031° or 46° 6′ 11″ northLongitude
7.0727° or 7° 4′ 22″ eastPopulation
21,800Elevation
475 metres (1,558 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 158220182OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Martigny” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Martigny”
- Albanian: “Martigny”
- Arabic: “مارتيني”
- Armenian: “Մարտինի”
- Arpitan: “Martegné”
- Basque: “Martigny”
- Belarusian: “Марцін’і”
- Belarusian: “Марціньі”
- Breton: “Martigny”
- Catalan: “Martigny”
- Cebuano: “Martigny-Ville”
- Chinese: “Martigny”
- Chinese: “馬爾蒂尼 (瓦萊州)”
- Chinese: “馬爾蒂尼”
- Chinese: “马尔蒂尼”
- Chinese: “马蒂尼”
- Czech: “Martigny”
- Danish: “Martigny”
- Dutch: “Martigny”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مارتينى”
- Esperanto: “Martigny VS”
- Esperanto: “Martigny”
- Finnish: “Martigny”
- French: “Martigny”
- French: “Octodurum”
- German: “Forum Claudii Vallensium”
- German: “La Bâtiaz VS”
- German: “Martigny VS”
- German: “Martigny-Bourg”
- German: “Martigny-Ville”
- German: “Martigny”
- German: “Martinach”
- German: “Octodurum”
- Hebrew: “מרטיני”
- Hungarian: “Martigny”
- Indonesian: “Martegne”
- Indonesian: “Martegné”
- Indonesian: “Martigny”
- Indonesian: “Martinach”
- Irish: “Martigny”
- Italian: “Martigny”
- Japanese: “マルティニー”
- Korean: “마르티니”
- Kurdish: “Martigny”
- Latin: “Forum Claudii Vallensium”
- Latin: “Martigny”
- Latin: “Martiniacum”
- Latin: “Octodurus”
- Lithuanian: “Martinji”
- Lombard: “Martigny”
- Luxembourgish: “Martigny”
- Macedonian: “Мартињи”
- Malay: “Martigny, Switzerland”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Martigny”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Martigny”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Martigny”
- Norwegian: “Martigny”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Martigny”
- Persian: “مارتینی، سوئیس”
- Piemontese: “Martigny”
- Polish: “Martigny”
- Polish: “Octodurum”
- Portuguese: “Martigny”
- Portuguese: “Octodure”
- Portuguese: “Octodurum”
- Quechua: “Martigny”
- Romanian: “Martigny VS”
- Romanian: “Martigny”
- Romansh: “Martigny”
- Russian: “Мартиньи”
- Russian: “Мартиньи́”
- Scots: “Martigny”
- Serbian: “Martigny”
- Serbian: “Мартињи”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Martigny”
- Sicilian: “Martigny”
- Silesian: “Martigny”
- Slovak: “Martigny”
- Slovenian: “Martigny”
- South Azerbaijani: “مارتینی، سوئیس”
- Spanish: “Martigny”
- Spanish: “Octodure”
- Swedish: “Martigny”
- Swiss German: “Martigny”
- Thai: “มาร์ตีญี”
- Tosk Albanian: “Martigny”
- Turkish: “Martigny”
- Ukrainian: “Мартіньї (Швейцарія)”
- Ukrainian: “Мартіньї”
- Upper Sorbian: “Martigny”
- Venetian: “Martigny”
- Volapük: “Martigny”
- Waray (Philippines): “Martigny”
- Welsh: “Martigny”
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