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Montreux

Montreux is mostly known for its world-famous two-week-long Jazz Festival, but it is well worth a wander through, if only to get to the scenic Château de Chillon or to get to the hiker's paradise of Hauts de Montreux. Wikivoyage

Population 26,955 (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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Still gathering the markets around Montreux. I'll let you know here when it's all in — or open the live guide.

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.

Through the year

  1. Golden Award of Montreux Festival

    April

    An award festival that takes place annually in April in Montreux and is the first international advertising and multimedia competition in Europe, starting the global season for awarding creative excellence.

  2. Montreux Jazz Festival

    July

    The Montreux Jazz Festival (formerly Festival de Jazz Montreux and Festival International de Jazz Montreux) is a music festival in Switzerland, held annually in early July in Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline.

    Official site Wikipedia

Annual events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage (Montreux); descriptions from Wikipedia where it has one, photos from Wikimedia Commons. Dates move year to year — check before you plan around one.

Eating nearby

All 22 places to eat

Getting around

More train stations: Collonge (funi) 770 m, Sonzier 770 m, Vuarennes 780 m, Territet (funi) 890 m, Territet 890 m, Glion-Collège 940 m, Toveyre 1.1 km, Valmont 1.1 km, Le Tremblex 1.3 km, Belmont-sur-Montreux 1.3 km, Chernex 1.6 km, Caux 1.7 km, Chamby 1.8 km, Sendy-Sollard 1.9 km, Châtelard 1.9 km, Clarens 1.9 km, Veytaux-Chillon 1.9 km, Les Echets 2.2 km, Chamby-Musée 2.3 km, Planchamp 2.3 km

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