Delémont: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

Delémont is a political municipality as well as the capital of the canton of Jura and the Delémont district. The city lies around 28 km as the crow flies southwest of Basel and approximately halfway between Basel and Biel/Bienne.

Renting a holiday apartment can be part of your personal travel planning for a stay in Delémont.

Landscape

The city of Delémont extends on both sides of the Sorne shortly before it merges with the Birs at the northern edge of the Delémont basin, a broad depression in the northern Jura. The municipality's 22.03 km² area includes a section of the intensively farmed central plain of the Delémont basin, as well as flat lowlands along the Sorne and the Birs.

The municipality of Delémont extends north as far as the anticline of the Les Rangiers range and reaches its highest point at 930 m on the Plain de la Chaive. The Vorbourg gorge cuts through the anticline of the Les Rangiers range northeast of Delémont; its western valley flank partly lies within the municipality.

Mont Russelin is a hill in the vicinity of Delémont. Cras au Sauvage is a hill in the wider regional surroundings of Delémont.

Château de Morimont, a ruin, is located in the immediate vicinity of Delémont. Bipp is a castle in the wider regional surroundings of Delémont. Wartenberg - Vordere Ruine is a ruin in the wider regional surroundings of Delémont. Saint-Morand is a church in the wider regional surroundings of Delémont.

Etang des Coeudres is an aquarium in the wider regional surroundings of Delémont. Voliere Solothurn is a zoo in the wider regional surroundings of Delémont.

Other local pages: Courroux, Glovelier, Rebeuvelier, Vermes, Bourrignon, Undervelier, Saulcy, Courfaivre.

To the higher-level travel overview: Delémont.