St. Gallen

St. Gallen (Sankt Gallen; French Saint-Gall; Italian San Gallo) is the capital of the Canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. It evolved from the hermitage of Saint Gall founded in the 7th century. Nowadays it is a large cosmopolitan city with good transport links to the rest of the country and to neighbouring Germany and Austria .

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Gustav Adolf, former king of Sweden, spent the last years of his life in St. Gallen, and finally died there in 1837.

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Notable buildings include:

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• Abbey of St. Gall
• University of St. Gallen, Swiss member of the Community of European Managament Schools
St. Gallen: Geography ►



 

Canton of St. Gallen: St. Gallen (German: Sankt Gallen) is a canton of Switzerland. St. Gallen is located in the north east of Switzerland. The area is 2,026 km? and population as of 2002 455,200. The capital is St. Gallen. There are alternative spellings for the canton: St. Gall, Saint Gall, Saint Gallen....

Switzerland: The Swiss Confederation or Switzerland (Latin: Confoederatio Helvetica) is a landlocked federal republic in Europe, bordering Germany, France, Italy, Austria and Liechtenstein. The country has a strong tradition of political and military neutrality, but also of international co-operation, and is hom...

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