Seychelles

Les Diablerets Introduction Les Diablerets is a ski resort and mountain villaged located in the Ormont-Dessus municipality in the Vaud Canton of Switzerland.  The village has an altitude of over 1,000 meters on the north side of the Diablere ...

Rapperswil Introduction  Rapperswil is a former municipality, and it has been included in the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona since 2007. It is in the See-Gaster constituency in the St. Gallen canton in Switzerland, and it is located on Lake ...

Dr. Ignaz Seipel, a conservative politician, was twice Chancellor of Austria in the 1920s. The square bearing his name is one of the most attractive in Vienna. At its centre (at ) stands a Rococo structure designed by Jean Nicolas Jadot de Ville-Is ...

This small town, situated between Lambach and Vocklabruck, is today an important economic centre. In the centre of town stands a Neo-Gothic parish church with a 78-m (256-ft) spire, built in 1900 on the site of an earlier Gothic church. Worth seein ...

The town of Kongsberg was founded in the year 1624 by Christian IV, a Danish-Norwegian king. The original name was Konings Bierg and the town was founded as a mining community. A royal charter of trade was granted to the town in 1802. Today the tow ...