Western Switzerland
Vaud
Riviera-Pays-d’Enhaut District

Montreux

Montreux is mostly known for its world-famous two-week-long Jazz Festival, but it is well worth a wander through, if only to get to the scenic Château de Chillon or to get to the hiker's paradise of Hauts de Montreux.
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  • Type: Town with 26,200 residents
  • Description: municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Montreux VD”
  • Postal code: 1820

Places of Interest

Highlights include Montreux railway station and Montreux Casino.

Railway station
Photo: NickK, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the largest of the railway stations serving the municipality of Montreux, in the canton of Vaud, . All of the SBB-CFF-FFS standard gauge passenger trains operating on the Simplon line call at this station, which is also the western terminus of the GoldenPass Line narrow gauge railway lines to and to .

Casino
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is a casino located in Montreux, Switzerland on the shoreline of . It has served as the venue for the Montreux Jazz Festival and was rebuilt following a 1971 fire memorialized in the Deep Purple song "Smoke on the Water".

Photo: Kazuyanagae, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a in Montreux, , dedicated to the British rock group Queen. It is located in the former in the Casino Barrière de Montreux.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Veytaux and Caux.

Village
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is a municipality in the district in the canton of in . The across the Avenue de Chillon on provides a view of the entire lake looking westward.

Village
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is a small village in the Canton of Vaud, which is part of the Montreux municipality. It looks out over Lake Geneva from an altitude of 1000 meters.

Village
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Clarens-Montreux or is a neighbourhood in the municipality of Montreux, in the canton of , in Switzerland. This neighbourhood is the biggest and most populated of the city of Montreux.

Montreux

Latitude
46.4311° or 46° 25′ 52″ north
Longitude
6.913° or 6° 54′ 47″ east
Population
26,200
Elevation
403 metres (1,322 feet)
IATA airport code
ZJP
United Nations Location Code
CH MNT
Open location code
8FR8CWJ7+C5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 197507412
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2659601
Wiki­data ID
Q69354
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Montreux” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Montreux”
  • Albanian: “Montreux”
  • Arabic: “مونترو”
  • Aragonese: “Montreux”
  • Armenian: “Մոնտյո”
  • Armenian: “Մոնտրյո”
  • Arpitan: “Montrolx”
  • Arpitan: “Môrçôls”
  • Arpitan: “Môthrôls”
  • Arpitan: “Môthrolx”
  • Arpitan: “Môtrœlx”
  • Arpitan: “Motrôls”
  • Arpitan: “Muetrôls”
  • Arpitan: “Muetrolx”
  • Asturian: “Montreux”
  • Azerbaijani: “Montrö”
  • Basque: “Montreux”
  • Belarusian: “Мантро”
  • Belarusian: “Мантрэ”
  • Bhojpuri: “मोंट्रियू”
  • Breton: “Montreux”
  • Bulgarian: “Монтрьо”
  • Catalan: “Montreux”
  • Cebuano: “Montreux (munisipyo)”
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  • Chinese: “Montreux”
  • Chinese: “蒙特勒”
  • Chinese: “蒙特魯”
  • Corsican: “Montreux”
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  • Czech: “Montreux”
  • Danish: “Montreux”
  • Dutch: “Montreux”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مونترو”
  • Esperanto: “Montreux VD”
  • Esperanto: “Montreux”
  • Estonian: “Montreux”
  • Finnish: “Montreaux”
  • Finnish: “Montreux”
  • French: “Montreux (VD)”
  • French: “Montreux”
  • Galician: “Montreux”
  • Georgian: “მონტრე”
  • German: “Montreux VD”
  • German: “Montreux”
  • German: “Muchtern”
  • Greek: “Μοντρέ”
  • Hebrew: “מונטרה”
  • Hebrew: “מונטרו”
  • Hungarian: “Montreux”
  • Icelandic: “Montreux”
  • Ido: “Montreux”
  • Indonesian: “Montreux, Swiss”
  • Indonesian: “Montreux”
  • Irish: “Montreux”
  • Italian: “Montreux VD”
  • Italian: “Montreux”
  • Japanese: “モントルー”
  • Korean: “몽트뢰”
  • Kurdish: “Montreux”
  • Latvian: “Montrē”
  • Lithuanian: “Montrė”
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  • Lithuanian: “Montro”
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  • Malay: “Montreux”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Montreux”
  • Mingrelian: “მონტრე”
  • Narom: “Montreux”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Montreux”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Montreux”
  • Norwegian: “Montreux”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Montreux”
  • Ossetian: “Монтрё”
  • Persian: “مونترو”
  • Piemontese: “Montreux”
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  • Portuguese: “Montreaux”
  • Portuguese: “Montreux”
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  • Russian: “Монтре”
  • Russian: “Монтрё”
  • Scots: “Montreux”
  • Serbian: “Montreux”
  • Serbian: “Монтре”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Montreux”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Muchtern”
  • Sicilian: “Montreux”
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  • Slovak: “Montreux”
  • Slovenian: “Montreux”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مونترو”
  • Spanish: “Montreaux”
  • Spanish: “Montreux”
  • Swedish: “Montreaux”
  • Swedish: “Montreux”
  • Swiss German: “Montreux”
  • Tahitian: “Montreux”
  • Tatar: “Моңтрө”
  • Thai: “มงเทรอ”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Montreux”
  • Turkish: “Montreaux”
  • Turkish: “Montreux”
  • Turkish: “Montrö”
  • Ukrainian: “Монтре”
  • Ukrainian: “Монтрьо”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Montreux”
  • Venetian: “Montreux”
  • Vietnamese: “Montreux”
  • Volapük: “Montreux”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Montreux”
  • Welsh: “Montreux”
  • Wu Chinese: “蒙特勒”
  • Yiddish: “מאנטרע”
  • “Montreux”
  • “Montreux VD”
  • “मोंट्रियू”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Montreux”. Photo: I.montanari, CC BY-SA 3.0.