Western Switzerland
Canton of Jura
Porrentruy District

Porrentruy

Porrentruy is a historic city in the canton of Jura in the Jura Mountains and Fribourg region of . Local people in Jura speak French. Porrentruy offers a multitude of architectural sights.
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  • Type: Town with 6,600 residents
  • Description: town in the Canton of Jura, Switzerland
  • Also known as: “Bruntrutain”, “Poérreintru”, “pons Ragentrudis”, “Porrentruy JU”, “Pruntrut”, “Purrentru”, and “ville bruntrutaine”
  • Postal code: 2900

Places of Interest

Highlights include Porrentruy railway station and Porrentruy Castle.

Railway station
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is a railway station in the municipality of Porrentruy, in the canton of . It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Delémont–Delle line of Swiss Federal Railways and the western terminus of the Porrentruy–Bonfol line of Chemins de fer du Jura.

Castle
Photo: Nerijp, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a castle in the municipality of Porrentruy of the in . It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

Museum
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fontenais and Courtedoux.

Village
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is a municipality in the district of Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in . On 1 January 2013 the former municipality of merged into the municipality of .

Village
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is a municipality in the district of Porrentruy of the , .

Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality in the district of Porrentruy in the canton of Jura in .

Porrentruy

Latitude
47.4171° or 47° 25′ 2″ north
Longitude
7.0761° or 7° 4′ 34″ east
Population
6,600
Elevation
425 metres (1,394 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CH PRY
Open location code
8FV9C38G+VF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1385085537
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2659171
Wiki­data ID
Q68256
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Porrentruy” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Porrentruy”
  • Albanian: “Porrentruy”
  • Arabic: “بورينتري”
  • Aragonese: “Porrentruy”
  • Arpitan: “Porrentru”
  • Asturian: “Porrentruy”
  • Basque: “Porrentruy”
  • Bavarian: “Porrentruy”
  • Breton: “Porrentruy”
  • Catalan: “Porrentruy”
  • Cebuano: “Porrentruy (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Porrentruy”
  • Chinese: “波朗特吕”
  • Chinese: “波朗特呂”
  • Corsican: “Porrentruy”
  • Croatian: “Porrentruy”
  • Czech: “Porrentruy”
  • Czech: “Pruntrut”
  • Danish: “Porrentruy”
  • Dutch: “Porrentruy”
  • Esperanto: “Porrentruy”
  • Estonian: “Porrentruy”
  • Finnish: “Porrentruy”
  • French: “bruntrutain”
  • French: “Porrentruy”
  • French: “Pruntrut”
  • French: “ville bruntrutaine”
  • Friulian: “Porrentruy”
  • Galician: “Porrentruy”
  • German: “Bruntrut”
  • German: “Porentrui”
  • German: “Porrentruy”
  • German: “Pruntrut”
  • German: “Puntrut”
  • Hebrew: “פורנטרוי”
  • Hungarian: “Porrentruy”
  • Icelandic: “Porrentruy”
  • Ido: “Porrentruy”
  • Indonesian: “Porrentruy”
  • Indonesian: “Pruntrut”
  • Interlingua: “Porrentruy”
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  • Irish: “Porrentruy”
  • Italian: “Porrentruy”
  • Japanese: “ポラントリュイ”
  • Japanese: “ポラントルイ”
  • Kongo: “Porrentruy”
  • Korean: “포랑트뤼”
  • Kurdish: “Porrentruy”
  • Latin: “Brundusia”
  • Latin: “Porrentruy”
  • Latin: “Purrentrum”
  • Ligurian: “Porrentruy”
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  • Lombard: “Porrentruy”
  • Low German: “Porrentruy”
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  • Narom: “Porrentruy”
  • Neapolitan: “Porrentruy”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Porrentruy”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Porrentruy”
  • Norwegian: “Porrentruy”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Porrentruy”
  • Persian: “پورانترویی”
  • Picard: “Porrentruy”
  • Piemontese: “Porrentruy”
  • Polish: “Porrentruy”
  • Portuguese: “Porrentruy”
  • Romanian: “Porrentruy”
  • Romansh: “Porrentruy”
  • Russian: “Поррантрюи”
  • Russian: “Поррантрюи́”
  • Sardinian: “Porrentruy”
  • Scots: “Porrentruy”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Porrentruy”
  • Serbian: “Porrentruy”
  • Serbian: “Порентру”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Porrentruy”
  • Sicilian: “Porrentruy”
  • Slovak: “Porrentruy”
  • Slovenian: “Porrentruy”
  • Slovenian: “Pruntrut”
  • Spanish: “Porrentruy”
  • Swahili: “Porrentruy”
  • Swedish: “Porrentruy”
  • Swiss German: “Porrentruy”
  • Swiss German: “Pruntrut”
  • Thai: “ปอร็องทรุย”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Pruntrut”
  • Turkish: “Porrentruy”
  • Ukrainian: “Порантрюї”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Porrentruy”
  • Venetian: “Porrentruy”
  • Vietnamese: “Porrentruy”
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  • Waray (Philippines): “Porrentruy”
  • Welsh: “Porrentruy”
  • Wolof: “Porrentruy”
  • Zulu: “Porrentruy”
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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 “Porrentruy”. Photo: Yesuitus2001, CC BY-SA 2.5.