Abbey Cathedral of St Gall, UNESCO World Heritage Site
St.Gallen, SwitzerlandThe Abbey Cathedral of St Gall, the abbey library and the surrounding monastery buildings - in short the St. Gallen Abbey District - was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983. This magnificent baroque complex, known far beyond the borders of Switzerland, rose from a small hermitage founded in 612 by the monk Gallus in “the green wilderness between Lake Constance and Säntis”.
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Stiftsbezirk St.Gallen
Klosterhof 6D
9001 St.Gallen
Switzerland
www.stiftsbezirk.ch
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