The best-known castles and palaces in Switzerland
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
Switzerland's castles switch language as you cross it. In the west: Château de Neuchâtel in the center of Neuchâtel, Château de Chillon 2 km from Montreux, Château de Tourbillon 1 km from Sion. In the German-speaking north and east: the Habsburg 9 km from Baden, Schloss Lenzburg 11 km from Aarau, Schloss Kyburg near Winterthur, Schloss Greifensee 4 km from Uster, and far to the east, Chastè da Tarasp.
RLQuest knows 750 castles and palaces in Switzerland, and 450 of them have a Wikipedia article. The country is also well covered for waterfalls (352), caves (288), ruins (96) and observation towers (88), each on a page of its own. RLQuest treats every one as a place to reach once, checked against your route, and the map colors in tile by tile between them.
Every dot is a place. The numbers mark the highlights listed below.
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
A selection, best known first, with the nearest larger town next to each.
and 698 more
RLQuest knows these places too. Which means:
Some of your daily quests lead to a real place near you. The app uses your location to check you were really there.
If you're the first person in RLQuest to complete a quest at a place, it's your first find. The Place Book shows you which kinds of place you're still missing.
Every walk uncovers tiles, each about 350 m across. Over time you can see which corners you know well, and where you've never set foot.
Place data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. Borders: geoBoundaries (CC BY 4.0); Canada: Statistics Canada. As of 2026-10-02. The list shows the places RLQuest knows and isn't complete. Photos come from Wikimedia Commons; author and license are credited on each photo.
