Villars-sur-Glâne

Geography

Villars-sur-Glâne has an area, , of . Of this area, or 29.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 17.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 51.5% is settled (buildings or roads), or 1.3% is either rivers or lakes. Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 4.9% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 27.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 13.8%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 2.7% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 2.4%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 16.8% is used for growing crops and 12.0% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.

Most-observed species

• European roe deer

  Capreolus capreolus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Mammalia
  6,840
• red fox

  Vulpes vulpes (Linnaeus, 1758) · Mammalia
  4,674
• common frog

  Rana temporaria Linnaeus, 1758 · Amphibia
  4,471
• Meadow Brown

  Maniola jurtina (Linnaeus, 1758) · Insecta
  4,067
• Common Toad

  Bufo bufo (Linnaeus, 1758) · Amphibia
  3,061
• Common Blue

  Polyommatus icarus (von Rottemburg, 1775) · Insecta
  2,693
• Eurasian beaver

  Castor fiber Linnaeus, 1758 · Mammalia
  2,656
• hedgehog

  Erinaceus europaeus Linnaeus, 1758 · Mammalia
  2,509

Most recent

• M 4.1 — 2025-07-21
  4 km E of Frutigen, Switzerland
• M 3.2 — 2024-05-09
  9 km SW of Evolène, Switzerland
• M 4.4 — 2023-03-22
  1 km NW of Pont-de-Roide, France
• M 3.3 — 2022-09-25
  7 km ESE of Ar?ches-la-Frasse, France
• M 2.7 — 2022-08-23
  4 km S of Turtmann, Switzerland
• M 4.1 — 2021-12-24
  2 km WSW of Blamont, France