Visiting Mon Repos

Where Is Kandersteg? Kandersteg is a Swiss municipality, in the canton of Bern. It is located in the administrative district of Frutigen-Nidersimmental. The municipality is located parallel to the valley of the Kander River, to the west of the Jun ...

Opposite the spot where a deranged man tried to assassinate Franz Joseph I in 1853, stands this Neo-Gothic church with its two 99-m (325-ft) high, lacy steeples completed 26 years later as a grateful offering for sparing the Emperor’s life. The a ...

Haydn built this house in what was then a new suburb with money that he had earned on his successful trips to London between 1791 and 1795. He lived in the house from 1797 until his death in 1809, and composed many major works here, including The S ...

You can reach the Eisenerzer Alpen (iron-ore alps) by following the steep, narrow valley of the Enns river. This gorge, called Gesause, begins a short distance from Admont, near Hieflau. The entrance to the gorge presents great views of the river a ...

The Sognefjord, also referred to as the Sognefjorden, is the biggest fjord in Norway, and it is the 3rd longest in the entire world (after the Greely and Scoresby Sund Fjord). Since the other couple of fjords are usually covered with ice, the Sogne ...