Villeneuve is a municipality of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, located in the district of Aigle.
Population: 4,349
Latitude: 46° 23' 55.28" N
Longitude: 6° 55' 35.54" E
The Château de Chillon (Chillon Castle) is an island castle located on Lake Geneva, south of Veytaux in the canton of Vaud. It is situated at the eastern end of the lake, on the narrow shore between Montreux and Villeneuve, which gives access to the…
Aiglon College is a private co-educational boarding school in Switzerland broadly modelled on British boarding school lines. It has a diverse international student population.
Villars-sur-Ollon, commonly referred to as Villars, is a village in Switzerland in the canton of Vaud, part of the municipality of Ollon. Accommodation in the village consists largely of chalets.
Glion Institute of Higher Education is a hospitality business school with two campuses in Switzerland and a Glion London campus in the UK. The school offers bachelor degrees in hospitality management or event management, an MSc and MBA with hybrid o…
The Lavaux is a region in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, in the district of Lavaux-Oron.
Since 1982, César Ritz Colleges Switzerland has provided international hotel and tourism management education. Located on three campuses, the César Ritz Colleges Switzerland and Culinary Arts Academy Switzerland are situated in Le Bouveret, the Univ…
The Rochers de Naye (French, lit. "rocks of Naye"; 2,042 metres (6,699 ft)) are 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…
Les Diablerets is a village and ski resort located in the municipality of Ormont-Dessus in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland.
Clarens is a small village in the municipality of Montreux, in the canton of Vaud, in Switzerland.
Saint-Maurice d'Agaune (or Saint-Maurice-en-Valais) is a Swiss monastery of canons regular in Saint-Maurice, Canton of Valais, which dates from the 6th century. It is situated against a cliff in a section of the road between Geneva and the Simplon P…
Montreux railway station (French: Gare de Montreux) is the largest of the railway stations serving the municipality of Montreux, in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland.
Fortress Saint-Maurice is one of the three main fortification complexes comprising the Swiss National Redoubt. The westernmost of the three, Fortress Saint-Maurice complements Fortress Saint Gotthard and Fortress Sargans to secure the central alpine…
Caux is a small village in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland.
The Montreux–Oberland Bernois railway (French: Chemin de fer Montreux–Oberland Bernois, German: Montreux–Berner Oberland-Bahn, abbreviated MOB), is a railway operating in southwest Switzerland, one of the oldest electric railways in the country; its…
The Diablerets (French: Les Diablerets; lit. "the abode of devils") are a huge ice-covered mountain of the Alps, culminating at 3,210 metres (10,530 ft) above sea level and straddling the border between the Swiss cantons of Vaud and Valais. The Diab…
The Castle of Gruyères (in French: château de Gruyères), located in the medieval town of Gruyères, Fribourg, is one of the most famous in Switzerland.
The Montreux–Glion–Rochers-de-Naye railway (MGN), French: Chemin de fer Montreux–Glion–Rochers-de-Naye, is an electrically operated rack railway in Switzerland, with a track gauge of 800 mm (2 ft 7 1⁄2 in).
Roman Agaunum, the modern Saint-Maurice in the canton Valais in southwesternmost Switzerland, was a minor post confined between the Rhône and the mountains along the well-travelled road that led from Roman Genava, modern Geneva, over the Alps by the…