Lauterbrunnen in Switzerland

2 April 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General Reading Time:  5 minutes

© flickr.com - Noel Reynolds/cc-by-2.0

© flickr.com – Noel Reynolds/cc-by-2.0

Lauterbrunnen is a village and municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. The municipality comprises the other villages of Wengen, Mürren, Gimmelwald, Stechelberg, and Isenfluh, as well as several other hamlets. The population of the village of Lauterbrunnen is less than that of Wengen, but larger than that of the others.   read more…

Grindelwald in Switzerland

28 December 2024 | Author/Destination: | Category: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

Alphorn Festival © Cristo Vlahos/cc-by-sa-3.0

Alphorn Festival © Cristo Vlahos/cc-by-sa-3.0

Grindelwald is a village and municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Berne. In addition to the village of Grindelwald, the municipality also includes the settlements of Alpiglen, Burglauenen, Grund, Itramen, Mühlebach, Schwendi, Tschingelberg and Wargistal.   read more…

Bern, capital of Switzerland

18 June 2012 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  8 minutes

The Zytglogge clock tower and the citys medieval covered shopping promenades © Daniel Schwen

The Zytglogge clock tower and the citys medieval covered shopping promenades © Daniel Schwen

The city of Bern or Berne is the Bundesstadt (federal city, de facto capital) of Switzerland, and, with a population of 133,920, the fourth most populous city in Switzerland. The Bern agglomeration, which includes 43 municipalities, has a population of 349,000. The metropolitan area had a population of 660,000 in 2000. Bern is also the capital of the Canton of Bern, the second most populous of Switzerland’s cantons.   read more…

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