See & Do
Towns around Yverdon
Yverdon sits at the centre of a ring of small towns, each a short train ride away: the medieval castles of Grandson and Estavayer-le-Lac, the Roman abbey of Romainmôtier, the watchmaking heights of Sainte-Croix, the old town of Orbe and the caves of Vallorbe. Each one makes an easy, car-free day out.
Around Yverdon · 6 min by train
Grandson →
A great medieval castle on the lake, six minutes up the shore from Yverdon, reopened in 2026 after a long restoration with a new museum tracing a thousand years of its history.
Around Yverdon · 30 min
Orbe →
A medieval town on a hill, with the richest Roman mosaics in Switzerland just outside it and a river gorge below.
Around Yverdon · 45 min
Vallorbe →
A Jura town at the French border, with a great show cave, an old ironworks on the river, and the ridge of Mont d'Or above.
Around Yverdon · train or boat
Estavayer-le-Lac →
A walled medieval town across the lake, with a castle, a famously quirky Frog Museum, a marina and a sandy beach.
Around Yverdon · 45 min
Romainmôtier →
A tiny medieval village built around one of the oldest churches in Switzerland, a Romanesque abbey in a quiet fold of the Jura.
Around Yverdon · 35 min by train
Sainte-Croix →
The world capital of music boxes, high in the Jura above Yverdon: a museum of singing birds and automata, a scenic mountain railway, and walking and skiing on the doorstep.