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Val d’Herens Introduction Val d’Herens is located in the Valais canton, and it is an alpine valley there. It is a gorgeous part of Switzerland. It was created by the Herens glacier, which melted somewhat at the end of the world’s ...

Wettingen Introduction  Wettingen is a small community in the Baden district in the Aargau canton of Switzerland. With a population of around 20,000, Wettingen is the biggest municipality in the whole canton.  This is the biggest munici ...

Rathaus Introduction  A Rathaus is a German word, and the literal translation is a “council house”, which means it is the seat of a local government. Rathaus is a common word for “town hall” or “guildhall” ...

The knights of the Teutonic Order arrived in Vienna in the 13th century. They established their quarters near the Stephansdom, but only the tower still stands today. In the 15th century, they built the present Gothic church of St Elizabeth. Its Bar ...

Piber houses the stud farm for the Spanish Riding School horses. When the town of Lipizza was incorporated into Slovenia after World War I, it was in a former castle in Piber, a small Styrian village, that the famous Lippizaner horses found a new h ...