Villars-sur-Glâne

Villars-sur-Glâne is a municipality in the district of Sarine in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. It covers about 5.5 square kilometres, of which roughly 29.3 percent is used for agriculture, about 17.5 percent is forested and more than half, 51.5 percent, is settled land of buildings and roads. The municipality has its own railway station, Villars-sur-Glâne, on the Lausanne to Bern line. Several sites in and around it are listed as Swiss heritage sites of national significance, among them the Pont de la Glâne, a bridge shared with the neighbouring municipality of Hauterive, and the bridge and chapel of Sainte-Apolline, also shared with Hauterive. About 12,219 people lived there in December 2020.