Swiss towns & villages for your route

Make Bern your city pause between Lucerne and the Bernese Oberland. Explore the arcaded streets and the Aare-side viewpoints without adding a mountain excursion to the same afternoon.

Use Grindelwald as a base for First and the Jungfrau network. Separate village time from the higher excursions rather than counting them as one short visit.

Choose Lauterbrunnen for village and valley scenery below the high mountain railways. It is a different base and branch of the network from Grindelwald.

Use Cully as a lakeside stop in Lavaux. Decide whether you want village time or a longer vineyard walk before scheduling a tasting.

Make Geneva a city visit or a practical departure base at the western end of the lake. It is not interchangeable with Montreux or the Lavaux villages.

Use Lucerne for an easy city-and-lake opening before heading into the mountains. Keep a riverside walk and old-town time flexible around arrival.

Stop in Lungern for village and lake scenery on the route toward the Bernese Oberland. It is south of Lucerne, rather than a city neighborhood.

Use village time as the gentler part of a Zermatt stay, with separate days for the mountain railways and walks.