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Places worth the detour in Canton of Vaud

Detourmap lists 65 places in Canton of Vaud, Switzerland, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Lake Murten. 43 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Nature51 Archaeological14
Places
65
Oldest
Former Cistercian abbey of Montheron 1135
Little known
43 of 65
Share of Switzerland
6%

Canton of Vaud 65

All 65, best known first.

Elsewhere in Switzerland

Canton of Valais295 Canton of the Grisons230 Canton of Berne137 Canton of Ticino60 Canton of St. Gallen38 Canton of Uri36 Canton of Zurich35 Canton of Schwyz31

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Questions about this page

What is the best known place worth the detour in Canton of Vaud?

Lake Murten. Lake in Switzerland. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in Canton of Vaud?

65: 51 nature & landscapes and 14 archaeological & historic sites. 43 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.

What is the oldest place on this map in Canton of Vaud?

Former Cistercian abbey of Montheron, dated to 1135. 3 of the 65 places here carry a founding date at all.

What counts as Canton of Vaud here?

Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Canton of Vaud if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Canton of Vaud is a first-level division of Switzerland, the same level as a state or a province.

Where does this information come from?

Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.