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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Introduction
Geography
Education
Transportation
External links
 
FR: Saint-Gall (ville)


 

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