Tour de Gourze
Tour de Gourze is in Bourg-en-Lavaux, Lavaux-Oron District, Vaud and has an elevation of 918 metres. Tour de Gourze is situated nearby to Tower of Gourze, as well as near the peak Mont de Gourze.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Mont de Gourze and Tower of Gourze.
Mont de Gourze
Peak
Photo: Marc Mongenet, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mont de Gourze is a mountain in Switzerland, overlooking Lake Geneva in the canton of Vaud. On the summit is located the medieval lookout tower of Gourze.
Tower of Gourze
Tower
Photo: Zadina, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The tower of Gourze is the remnants of a medieval lookout tower on the Mont de Gourze in the Swiss canton of Vaud. A square tower, it is approximately 9 metres tall and has views over Lake Geneva.
Grandvaux railway station
Railway station
Photo: JoachimKohler-HB, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Grandvaux railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Bourg-en-Lavaux, in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Lausanne–Bern line of Swiss Federal Railways. Grandvaux railway station is situated 2 km southwest of Tour de Gourze.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Riex and Lavaux.
Riex
Village
Photo: Zacharie Grossen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Riex is a former municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, located in the district of Lavaux-Oron. The municipalities of Cully, Epesses, Grandvaux, Riex and Villette merged on 1 July 2011 into the new municipality of Bourg-en-Lavaux.
Lavaux
Lavaux is internationally famous as a terraced wine-growing region on the shores of Lake Geneva in western Switzerland. It covers the territory roughly from Lausanne to Montreux, extending to an altitude of roughly 500 meters above lake level and including 6 lake shore villages and the city of Vevey.
Epesses
Village
Photo: Pasztilla, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Epesses is a former municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud, located in the district of Lavaux-Oron on Lake Geneva. It is noted for its wine production.
Tour de Gourze
- Type: Sign
- Categories: information and tourism
- Location: Bourg-en-Lavaux, Lavaux-Oron District, Vaud, Western Switzerland, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.51055° or 46° 30′ 38″ northLongitude
6.74082° or 6° 44′ 27″ eastElevation
918 metres (3,012 feet)Open location code
8FR8GP6R+68OpenStreetMap ID
node 1433706823OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=information
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