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  • Tarasp Castle

    Tarasp Castle (German: Schloss Tarasp, Romansh: Chastè da Tarasp) is a castle in Switzerland, near Tarasp, in Lower Engadin, Graubünden.

  • Stechelberg

    Stechelberg is a small village in the glacier carved Lauterbrunnen valley of the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland, sitting at the base of the Jungfrau mountain. The village is connected by the Luftseilbahn Stechelberg-Mürren-Schilthorn (LSMS), an aer…

  • Saint-Léonard underground lake

    Saint-Léonard underground lake (French Lac souterrain de Saint-Léonard) is located at Saint Léonard in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. With a length of 300 and a width of 20 m it is the largest underground lake in Europe. It was discovered in 194…

  • Saint-Gingolph

    Saint-Gingolph is a small town situated on the south bank of Lake Geneva (Lac Léman). It sits at the Franco-Swiss frontier, and is administratively divided into Saint-Gingolph, Switzerland (Switzerland) and Saint-Gingolph, Haute-Savoie (France). Its…

  • Saane/Sarine

    Saane (in German) or Sarine (in French) is a major river of Switzerland. It is 128 km (80 mi) long and has a drainage area of 1,892 km2 (731 sq mi).

  • Piz Lunghin

    Piz Lunghin (2,780 m) is a mountain in the Swiss canton of Graubünden, located in the Albula range, overlooking the Maloja Pass.

  • Natural History Museum of Bern

    The Natural History Museum of Bern (German: Naturhistorisches Museum der Burgergemeinde Bern) is a museum in Bern, Switzerland. In its teaching and research it cooperates closely with the University of Bern.

  • Nadelhorn

    The Nadelhorn (4,327 m) is a mountain in the Pennine Alps in Switzerland. It is the highest point on the Nadelgrat, a high-level ridge running roughly north–south above the resort of Saas-Fee to the east, and the Mattertal to the west. Its three rid…

  • Metro Alpin

    The Metro Alpin is an underground funicular situated above the Swiss town of Saas Fee, in the canton of Valais. Opened in 1984, it links the Felskinn cable-car station (2,980 metres or 9,777 feet MSL) on the shore of the Fee Glacier to the Mittelall…

  • Maloja District

    Maloja District (Italian: Distretto di Maloggia) is an administrative district in the canton of Graubünden (or Grigioni), Switzerland. It has an area of 973.28 km2 (375.79 sq mi) and has a population of 18,717 (as of 31 December 2013).

  • Lützelau

    Lützelau (Old High German: little island) is an island located, with the neighbouring island of Ufenau, in Lake Zürich in Switzerland between Rapperswil (1.6 km away) and Freienbach (3.0 km away).

  • Lake Lungern

    Lake Lungern (German: Lungerersee, also spelled Lungernsee or Lungerensee) is a small natural lake in Obwalden, Switzerland which is named after the town Lungern on its shore.

  • Le Bouveret

    Le Bouveret is a town in the commune of Port-Valais in the Swiss canton of Valais. Situated at the southernmost end of Lake Geneva and close to the French border, Le Bouveret is very much tourism-oriented with several amusement attractions, includin…

  • Lauteraarhorn

    The Lauteraarhorn is a peak (4,042 m) of the Aarmassif in the Bernese Alps in Switzerland. It lies close to the Schreckhorn (to the north) and the Finsteraarhorn (to the south).

  • Lausanne-Flon station

    Lausanne-Flon is a railway and metro station in the Flon district of central Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland and is the hub of the Lausanne Metro system. The station's initial building was also the first in the city to use electricity.

  • Lake Murten

    Lake Morat (French: Lac de Morat (official name); German: Murtensee) is a lake located in the cantons of Fribourg and Vaud in the west of Switzerland.

  • Lago Bianco

    Lago Bianco (literally "White Lake") is a reservoir at the Bernina pass in the Grisons, Switzerland. Its surface area is 1.50 km².

  • Lac de Joux

    Lac de Joux is a lake in the Vallée de Joux in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland. With a surface area of 9.5 km², it is the largest lake in Switzerland lying above 1,000 metres.

  • La Dôle

    La Dôle is a mountain of the Jura, overlooking Lake Geneva in the easternmost part of the canton of Vaud. Rising to an altitude of 1677 meters, it is the second highest peak in the Swiss portion of the Jura, after Mont Tendre. Administratively, the …

  • Klöntalersee

    Klöntalersee is a natural lake in the Canton of Glarus, Switzerland. Since 1908, it has been used as a reservoir for electricity production.

  • Kander (Switzerland)

    The Kander is a river in Switzerland. It is 44 kilometres (27 mi) long and has a watershed of 1,126 square kilometres (435 sq mi). Originally a tributary of the Aar river, with a confluence downstream of the city of Thun, since 1714 it has flowed in…

  • Inselspital

    The University Hospital of Bern (German: Inselspital), located in Berne, is one of the five university hospitals of Switzerland.