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Aarau

Aarau is a town, a municipality, and the capital of the northern Swiss canton of Aargau. The town is also the capital of the district of Aarau. Wikipedia

Population 22,710 (Wikidata)

Live guide From your hotel

Before you go

Emergency numbers in Switzerland

Visas and entry What your passport needs for Switzerland

Getting there

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Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Markets

  • Rüeblimärt

    Opening hours

    "yearly, 1st Wednesday in November"

    850 m from the centre

  • Schaustellerplatz Schachen

    No hours mapped

    1.5 km from the centre

Markets mapped on OpenStreetMap, with their hours where someone has added them. Check locally before you go.

Eating nearby

All 3 places to eat

Getting around

More train stations: Unterentfelden Post 3.5 km, Unterentfelden Oberdorf 4.0 km, Suhr 4.0 km, Suhr AVA 4.0 km, Oberentfelden Uerkenbrücke 4.3 km, Oberentfelden 4.8 km, Oberentfelden Engelplatz 4.9 km, Schönenwerd 4.9 km, Gränichen Töndler 5.1 km, Gränichen 5.6 km, Rupperswil 5.8 km, Hunzenschwil 5.8 km

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