Les Avants railway station
Les Avants railway station is a railway station in Montreux, Riviera-Pays-d’Enhaut District, Vaud and has an elevation of 970 metres. Les Avants railway station is situated nearby to the church Chapelle de Notre Dame des Narcisses, as well as near the climbing site Max Distrait.Photo: NAC, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Dent de Jaman and Rochers de Naye.
Dent de Jaman
Peak
Photo: Espandero, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Dent de Jaman is a mountain above Montreux, situated north of the Rochers de Naye. In August 1830 three Polish romantic poets, Adam Mickiewicz, Zygmunt Krasiński and Antoni Edward Odyniec, climbed the mountain together. Dent de Jaman is situated 2½ km east of Les Avants railway station.
Rochers de Naye
Peak
Photo: Sumspic, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Rochers de Naye is a mountain of the Swiss Alps, overlooking Lake Geneva near Montreux and Villeneuve, in the canton of Vaud. They lie on the range separating the basin of Lake Geneva from the valley of the Sarine, on the watershed between the Rhone and the Rhine. Rochers de Naye is situated 3½ km southeast of Les Avants railway station.
Montreux railway station
Railway station
Photo: NickK, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Montreux railway station is the largest of the railway stations serving the municipality of Montreux, in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. 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 Zweisimmen and to Rochers de Naye. Montreux railway station is situated 3 km southwest of Les Avants railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Les Avants and Saleuscex.
Les Avants
Village
Photo: Scotlandyard, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Les Avants is a village in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is located in the municipality of Montreux, in the east of the canton, in the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut. It lies 3.5 km north-east of the town of Montreux and 25 km east of Lausanne.
Caux
Village
Photo: Mykola Swarnyk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Caux is a small village in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland which is part of the Montreux municipality. It looks out over Lake Geneva from an altitude of 1000 meters.
Les Avants railway station
- Type: Railway station
- Description: train station in Switzerland
- Category: transportation
- Location: Montreux, Riviera-Pays-d’Enhaut District, Vaud, Western Switzerland, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.45364° or 46° 27′ 13″ northLongitude
6.94346° or 6° 56′ 36″ eastElevation
970 metres (3,182 feet)Operator
MOBOpen location code
8FR8FW3V+F9OpenStreetMap ID
node 264552651OpenStreetMap feature
railway=stationWikidata ID
Q33446001
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In Other Languages
From Esperanto to Venetian—“Les Avants railway station” goes by many names.
- Esperanto: “Les Avants”
- French: “gare de Les Avants”
- French: “gare des Avants”
- French: “Gare des Avants”
- French: “Les Avants”
- German: “Bahnhof Les Avants”
- Spanish: “Estación de Les Avants”
- Venetian: “stasion de Les Avants”
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