Payerne: Holiday apartments and holiday homes

You can rent a holiday apartment in Payerne. Payerne is associated with a monumental Cluniac abbey church; along the Via Jacobi from Avenches, the church is named as the endpoint.

Culture

A city rally invites you to use your own leaflet to find twelve fountains in Payerne.

Getting around

A circular hike follows the route Payerne–Corcelles–Montagny–Vers-chez-Savary–Payerne through a varied landscape. For a hiking day in Payerne, this is a specific option with a loop that begins and ends in Payerne.

A hiking section of the Via Jacobi leads from Fribourg to Payerne through hilly countryside, meadows, open woodlands and wetlands.

The Three Lakes Trail reaches Payerne and connects there to the Romandy route towards Geneva and France.

Food and drink

Regional dishes and products are presented at Payerne's market square, including products from small producers such as spices, confectionery and other delicacies.

Geographical setting

Other named mapped features are also located in the wider area. From the mapped reference point of Payerne, the approximate straight-line distance to Château d’Amont as a castle is about 17.5 km in a south-easterly direction, to Menhirs de Clendy as an ancient site about 21.6 km in a westerly direction, to Collège Saint-Michel as a monastery about 17.0 km in an easterly direction and to La Tène as a historic site about 21.9 km in a northerly direction. The distance to Montagne de Boudry as a mountain is about 18.6 km in a north-westerly direction, to Mont Vully as a mountain about 20.1 km in a north-easterly direction, to Ile d’Ogoz as an island about 18.4 km in a south-easterly direction and to Käsenberg as a summit about 23.8 km in a south-easterly direction.

For further orientation, you can also compare the pages on Morges, Avenches, Gros-De-Vaud and Cossonay. The pages on Riviera-Pays-D'enhaut, Nyon, Aigle and Lausanne provide further orientation.

For the higher-level travel overview: Vaud.