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Located southeast at the gates of St. Gallen’s Old Town is the «Linsebühl». This name (translatable with: stony hill) probably owes the quarries for the city buildings that used to…

Throughout the middle ages, thousands of pilgrims walked from their homes to make their pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. Although the Way of St James (Swiss Camino / Jakobsweg), has traditionally been a…

Here you can have a coffee and read a newspaper in peace. It’s right next to the Public Library. Book towers rise over one gallery floor – a place to…

At the entrance to the Gallus Chapel (monastery quarter) are two sandstone statues by the Schaffhausen sculptor Johann Jakob Oechslin (1802–1873), one of St Maurice (right) and one of St…

The Trinity Church was built from 1948 – 1950 according to plans by Johann Scheier. It was created under the great influence of the Protestant theologian Karl Barths. The century…

If you’re interested, you can also take a look at the old water tower from outside (Robert Maillart, 1906). Back then, the water tower was used to fill the water tanks…

Switzerland is a very small country! You can get from the East to the West in about four hours. The train, in my opinion, is the best way to travel,…