By Air

Airports nearest to Grandson are sorted by the distance to the airport from the city centre.

Yverdon Airport (distanced approximately 5.7 km)
Motiers Airport (distanced approximately 11 km)
Payerne Airport (distanced approximately 22 km)
Neuchatel Airport (distanced approximately 24 km)
Pontarlier Airport (distanced approximately 25 km)

By Road

The community is traffic moderately well.It lies on the main road from Neuchatel to Yverdon-les-Bains.Since 1984, when the section Yverdon-Sud - Grandson of the highway A5 was opened, the town is relieved of through traffic.The continuation of the highway to Neuchatel was opened in May 2005.

By Train

On 7 November 1859 was taken by the railway line to Neuchatel Yverdon with a station at Grandson in operation.The station is operated since 1999 only by a few individual trains at peak times.

By Bus

For the dispersion in the public transport bus from Yverdon to ensure Gorgier from Yverdon to Novalles and from Yverdon to Mauborget, each serving several stops in Grandson.

By Ferry

Grandson is also connected by passenger ship on Lake Neuchatel with other Seeanstossergemeinden.

Grandson Castle, St.Jean Baptiste church, Hotel de Ville, Menhir in Grandson, Jura Mountains

Grandson Castle

The Grandson Castle is a castle in the Vaud community Grandson on Lake Neuchatel in Switzerland.The original castle was built around 1050 by the Lords of Grandson.From this time (1049) also dates the first mention of the place under the name Granzio.In the 13th Century was built a new building.Grandson Castle has five large round towers without machicolations and battlements.The only outside the building is burgundy tower and the bottom square in the upper third is round.Of Neuchatel, whose water level was higher earlier presented to the city wall.In addition to Chillon Castle Grandson is the most impressive fortresses in Switzerland of the Middle Ages.It's part of the old town, which impresses with its narrow streets, venerable building facades and historic monuments.Today the castle to see a torture chamber with instruments from that era.The Knights Hall has a pew from the Renaissance on.The armory contains a rich collection of objects from the time of the Burgundian Wars.A museum is the battle of Grandson dedicated to see the others in a model with 2,200 lead soldiers.Another museum is equipped with lock models and battle plans.

St.Jean Baptiste church

In the western part of town is the Protestant parish of Saint-Jean-Baptiste.She was formerly the priory church and was built in 1178 on the site of a smaller predecessor.The church with a cruciform floor plan is in the Romanesque style of Auvergne kept the origin of the Benedictine monks.Of particular importance are the richly carved Romanesque capitals, Roman column shafts are probably from the ruins of Aventicum.In the 14th Century, the choir and the church steeple gothic redesigned and the main facade was renewed 1896th The church has a richly carved in the transept Prior throne from 1480 in late Gothic style as well as important paintings from the 15th Century.

Hotel de Ville

Near the church is the former Hotel de Ville (City Hall), built in 1765-69 by transformation of a portion of the building of the priory of Saint-Jean and the rest of the convent buildings no longer exist.The new City Hall was built in 1891 in the Lower Town where the surviving tower of the former Franciscan monastery was included.The Maison du Bailli is a residential building from the 18th Century staircase and wrought-iron balcony.The streets and squares of Grandson be graced by several significant wells including one behind the church from 1637th.

Menhir in Grandson

In May 1895 a farmer discovered a buried underground Menhir weighing about three tons and about 3.4 m (11 ft) tall in Les Echatelards.The monolith now stands in the vicinity of the discovery site.Grandson however is better known for its prehistoric lake side settlements.The site at Corcelettes became well known after 1854, when Frederic Louis Troyon introduced the author Ferdinand Keller to the Corcelettes site in which numerous piles for stilt houses as well as vases were found.By 1930 seven lake front settlements were identified.They included: in Corcelettes a large Bronze Age site and a smaller one from the Neolithic period in Les Buttes two more from the Neolithic period and in Le Repuis, Le stand and Les Tuileries three others that were probably from the Neolithic.At the last three sites, no artifacts were discovered that could be used to definitively date them.In 1995 at the Bellerive campsite a Late Neolithic settlement dating from 2741-2488 BC was discovered.

Jura Mountains

The Jura Mountains are a small mountain range located north of the Alps, separating the Rhine and Rhone rivers and forming part of the watershed of each.The mountain range as defined by Johann Gottfried Ebel is located in France, Switzerland and Germany.The Jura range offer a variety of tourist activities including hiking, cycling, skiing and cross-country skiing.There are many signposted trails including the Jura ridgeway a 310 km hiking route.Tourist attractions include natural features such as the Creux du Van lookout peaks such as the Chasseral and caves such as the Grottes de l'Orbe and gorges such as Taubenloch.Both Le Locle and its geographical twin town La Chaux-de-Fonds have now been recognised as an UNESCO World Heritage Site for their horological and related cultural past.Fort de Joux is situated on a natural rock outcropping.

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