Goldau
Goldau is a city in the community of Arth, canton of Schwyz, Switzerland. It lies between two mountains, the Rigi (known as Queen of the Mountains) and the Rossberg.
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2,604 Articles of interest in Switzerland
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Gandria is both a quarter of the city of Lugano in the Swiss canton of Ticino, and a village, on the northern shore of Lake Lugano, which forms the core of that quarter.
Engelberg Abbey
Engelberg Abbey (German: Kloster Engelberg) is a Benedictine monastery in Engelberg, Canton of Obwalden, Switzerland. It was formerly in the Diocese of Constance, but now in the Diocese of Chur.
Eastern Switzerland
Eastern Switzerland (German: Ostschweiz, Romansh: Svizra orientala, Italian: Svizzera orientale) is the common name of the region situated to the north of Glarus Alps, with the cantons of Schaffhausen, Thurgau, St. Gallen, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Ap…
Diablerets
The Diablerets (French: Les Diablerets; lit. "the abode of devils") are a huge ice-covered mountain of the Alps, culminating at 3,210 metres (10,530 ft) above sea level and straddling the border between the Swiss cantons of Vaud and Valais. The Diab…
Gruyères Castle
The Castle of Gruyères (in French: château de Gruyères), located in the medieval town of Gruyères, Fribourg, is one of the most famous in Switzerland.
Château Saint-Maire
Château Saint-Maire ("Saint-Maire Castle") is a castle in Lausanne, Switzerland, that serves as the seat of the cantonal government, the Council of State of Vaud.
Chur railway station
Chur railway station serves the city of Chur, capital of the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland.
Montreux–Glion–Rochers-de-Naye railway
The Montreux–Glion–Rochers-de-Naye railway (MGN), French: Chemin de fer Montreux–Glion–Rochers-de-Naye, is an electrically operated rack railway in Switzerland, with a track gauge of 800 mm (2 ft 7 1⁄2 in).
Bodmer Library
The Bodmer Foundation (French: Fondation Bodmer) is a library and museum specialised in manuscripts and precious editions.
Basler Messeturm
The Basler Messeturm (Basel Trade Fair Tower), located in Basel at (47°33′52.16″N7°36′7.99″E), was Switzerland's tallest building until 2010, when a higher skyscraper was built in Zürich. It has 32 floors and is 105 m (344 ft) tall.
Valère Basilica
The Valère basilica (French: Basilique de Valère), also called Valère castle (French: Château de Valère), is a fortified church situated in Sion in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It is situated on a hill and faces the Château de Tourbillon, lo…
Albis
The Albis is a chain of hills in the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland, stretching for some 19 km from Sihlbrugg in the south to Waldegg near Zurich in the north. The chain forms, among others, the border between the Affoltern and Horgen districts. The …
Lungern
Lungern is a municipality in the canton of Obwalden in Switzerland. Lake Lungern is located within the municipality.
Old Botanical Garden, Zürich
The Old Botanical Garden (German: Alter Botanischer Garten) is a botanical garden and arboretum in the Swiss city of Zürich.
Zürich Oerlikon railway station
Zürich Oerlikon railway station (German: Bahnhof Zürich Oerlikon) is a railway station located at Oerlikon in the city of Zurich, Switzerland. It is a major nodal point and junction for both the Zurich S-Bahn network and the Swiss rail network as a …
Villa Jeanneret-Perret
The Villa Jeanneret-Perret (also known as Maison blanche) is the first independent project by Swiss architect Le Corbusier. Built in 1912 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Charles-Edouard Jeanneret's hometown, it was designed for his parents.
Tomasee
Tomasee (Romansh: Lai da Tuma or Lag da Toma) is a lake at the northern face of Piz Badus, above the village of Tschamut in Grisons, Switzerland.
St. Moritz-Celerina Olympic Bobrun
The St. Moritz-Celerina Olympic Bobrun (known officially as the Olympia Bobrun St. Moritz-Celerina) is a bobsleigh track located in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Constructed in 1903, it officially opened on New Year's Day 1904 and is the oldest bobsleigh…
Ruinaulta
Ruinaulta is a canyon created by the Vorderrhein in the debris of the Flims Rockslide just upstream of its confluence with the Hinter Rhine at Reichenau, Eastern Switzerland. It is sometimes known as the Rhine Canyon, or Swiss Grand Canyon (more for…
Rhaetian Alps
The Rhaetian Alps are a mountain range of the Southern Limestone Alps mountain group, in the Central Eastern Alps.
Reichenau, Switzerland
Reichenau is a village in the municipality of Tamins in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland, where the two Rhine tributaries Vorderrhein and Hinterrhein meet, forming the Alpine Rhine.
Palais Wilson
The Palais Wilson in Geneva, Switzerland, is the current headquarters of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. It was also the headquarters of the League of Nations from 1 November 1920 until that body moved its premis…
Monte San Salvatore
The Monte San Salvatore (912 m) is a mountain in the Lepontine Alps above Lake Lugano and the city of Lugano in Switzerland.
List of fountains in Bern
This is a list of fountains in Bern.
Linth
The Linth (pronounced [ˈlɪnt] "lint") is a Swiss river that rises near the village of Linthal in the mountains of Glarus, and eventually flows into the Obersee section of Lake Zurich.
Lake Silvaplana
Lake Silvaplana (German: Silvaplanersee; Romansh: Lej da Silvaplauna) is a lake in the Upper-Engadine valley of Grisons, Switzerland. It takes its name from the village of Silvaplana. The lake is also connected to the nearby Lej da Champfèr. Togethe…
Käferberg
Käferberg (el. 571 metres or 1,873 feet) and Waidberg (el.
Jungfrau Marathon
The Jungfrau Marathon is one of the best known mountain marathons in the world, in full view of the famous Eiger, Mönch, and Jungfrau mountains in the Bernese Oberland area of the Swiss Alps.
Interlaken West railway station
Interlaken West is a railway station in the resort town of Interlaken, in the Swiss canton of Bern. It is on the Thunersee line of the BLS AG, and is one of two stations in the town, the other being Interlaken Ost.
Ibach, Switzerland
Ibach is a town in the municipality of Schwyz, Schwyz District, Canton of Schwyz, Switzerland.
Grauspitz
The Grauspitz (Vorder Grauspitze or Vorder Grauspitz on some maps) is a mountain in the Rätikon range of the Alps, located on the border between Liechtenstein and Switzerland. With an elevation of 2,599 metres above sea level, the Grauspitz is the h…
Furka Cogwheel Steam Railway
The Furka Cogwheel Steam Railway (Dampfbahn Furka-Bergstrecke, DFB in German) is a largely volunteer operated heritage railway which operates a partially rack and pinion-operated line across the Furka Pass, between Realp in Uri and Oberwald in Valai…
Fluntern Cemetery
Also known as Friedhof Fluntern, Fluntern Cemetery is located in the Zürichberg district of Zürich.
Conservatoire de Musique de Genève
The Conservatoire de musique de Genève is a music school in Geneva, Switzerland,
Cimetière des Rois
The Cimetière des Rois (French: Cemetery of Kings) or Cimetière de Plainpalais, is a cemetery in Geneva, Switzerland, where John Calvin (the Protestant reformer), Jorge Luis Borges (the Argentine author), Sérgio Vieira de Mello (the former UN High C…