Liestal
Liestal is an industrial town with a cobbled-street Old Town in Switzerland, not far from Basel. It is the capital of the Basel-Landschaft canton, and was home to about 14,000 people in 2018. Wikivoyage
Population 16,034 (Wikidata)
Before you go
Emergency numbers in Switzerland
Getting there
Remembered in this browser only, with the last few you used.
Best-documented sights
All of them in the guide-
Museum.BL Museum · 600 m -
Liestaler Törli Attraction · 390 m - Orgel- und Harmonium-Museum Museum · 730 m
- Bourbaki-Denkmal Liestal Memorial · 650 m
- Spielweltenfabrik Theme park · 670 m
- Bauernkriegsdenkmal Memorial · 410 m
- Dichter- und Stadtmuseum Museum · 480 m
- Georg-Herwegh-Denkmal Memorial · 510 m
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
Markets mapped on OpenStreetMap, with their hours where someone has added them. Check locally before you go.
Somewhere to run
Getting around
- Liestal 520 m
- Gräubern 980 m
- Lausen 2.3 km
- Bad Bubendorf 2.3 km
- Frenkendorf-Füllinsdorf 2.6 km
- Talhaus 3.4 km
More train stations: Itingen 4.3 km, Lampenberg-Ramlinsburg 4.7 km, Pratteln 5.7 km, Salina Raurica 5.9 km
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