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Graubünden is a Swiss canton and a member of the Swiss Confederation. The capital of Graubünden is Chur. Naming of the canton of Graubünden It is assumed that the name Graubünden is a derivative. In 1367 the Gray Bund was founded. This was first used in 1447 as a nickname for Austrians and Zurich residents. But the Bundsmen adopted the name in their linguistic usage. Later in the 16th century, the area of today’s Canton of Graubünden was also known…
French is spoken in the Swiss canton of Jura. With one exception: people speak German in the community of Ederswiler. The canton of Jura is located in the northwest of the Swiss Confederation, the capital of Jura is called Delsberg. Jura’s neighbors are France and the cantons of Neuchâtel, Bern, Solothurn and Basel-Landschaft. The canton is quite sparsely populated and is also one of the smaller cantons in Switzerland. Many of the places in the canton have a French and…
Appenzell Innerrhoden is a German speaking Canton and belongs to the Swiss Confederation. Its main town is called Appenzell. The peculiarity of the canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden is that it has the canton with the lowest population in all of Switzerland and the second smallest area. Only 15,000 people live here. The neighborhood The canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden is right next to the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden and St. Gallen. The Almauftrieb and Almabtrieb is a spectacle every year. It…
CULTURE: MUSIC For many centuries it is impossible to speak of a specifically Swiss music: it can only be noted that in the regions now marked by the borders of this country, a musical life generically participates in the characteristics of European musical life, in particular that of French and German, develops. It must be remembered that the monasteries of St. Gallen and Einsiedeln, important in the history of the Gregorian tradition and in that of the sequence, are based…
As far as literature in French is concerned, only two names illustrate the spiritual and literary life in the Middle Ages: that of the chronicler Hugues de Pierre in the fifteenth century and of the knight and poet Othon de Granson (1340-ca.1397), of which G. Chaucer translated three ballads. The French-speaking literature was born in reality only with the reform, requirements for controversy, political and administrative, and remains long monopoly of theologians and jurists, first in order of time Pierre…
Switzerland – country information Country name Switzerland Official name The Swiss Confederation Capital Bern Continent Europe Area 41,284 km2 Population 8,112,200 (2013) Foundation of a state 1. 8. 1291 The highest mountains Dufourspitze (Monte Rosa) 4634 m Longest rivers Rhein (in the country 375 km) The largest lakes Lac Léman (Geneva region) 581 km 2 State system a pluralistic federal republic with a bicameral parliament The biggest cities Zürich 855,000, Geneva 405,000, Basel 365,000, Bern (capital) 310,000 Official language German,…