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Wonders of Nature in Switzerland

There are many caves and stalactite formations, gorges, roaring rivers and waterfalls, underground lakes and steep rocky slopes in Switzerland: The Vialama Gorge, the Rhine Gorge, the Tamina Gorge, springs in Graubünden, the Rhine Falls near Schaffhausen, the Rosenlaui Glacier Gorge near Meiringen and the St. Beatus Caves near Interlaken in Canton Bern, the Kobelwald Crystal … Read more » “Wonders of Nature in Switzerland”

Dornach

Schwarzbubenland consists of the Dorneck and Thierstein districts in the Solothurn canton. Dornach is derived from Tornacho, Tornegg or Tornach, the Celtic-Latin name of fundus turranicus. There was a Gallo-Roman settlement in the first centuries AD. The medieval ruins of the castles Dorneck and Hilzenstein, the Goetheanum, the monastery and the Nepomuk bridge have stories to … Read more » “Dornach”