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Echarlens
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Also known as Echarlens FR

Echarlens (; , locally ) is a municipality in the district of Gruyère in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.

Key facts

Swiss town.subject_name
Echarlens
Swiss town.municipality_type
municipality
Swiss town.imagepath_coa
CHE Echarlens COA.svg
Swiss town.imagepath_flag
CHE Echarlens Flag.svg
Swiss town.canton
Fribourg
Swiss town.iso code region
CH-FR
Swiss town.district
Gruyère
Swiss town.postal_code
1646
Swiss town.municipality_code
2131
Swiss town.area
4.61
Swiss town.elevation
716
Swiss town.website
www.echarlens.ch
Swiss town.mayor_title
Syndic
Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
Bulle, Corbières, Marsens, Morlon, Riaz, Villarbeney, Villarvolard, Vuadens

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Encyclopedic overview

11 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Geography
  • Coat of arms
  • Demographics
  • Heritage sites of national significance
  • Politics
  • Economy
  • Religion
  • Education
  • References
  • External links

Echarlens (; , locally ) is a municipality in the district of Gruyère in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.

==History== Echarlens is first mentioned in 855 as Escarlingus or Escarlinges.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Echarlens” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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