Topic / switzerland

The beautifully rendered topography of Switzerland.

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Chillon Castle , island fortress on Lake Geneva, Switzerland.

The building originally dates to the 11th century, but there’s evidence the Romans had forts on the small island a millennium earlier.

It’s functioned as fort, prison, and summer home to counts and dukes. Added to my one-day-Swiss-vacation list.

Lucerne’sKappelbrücke (Chapel Bridge) was built in 1360.

I got to walk across when I visited in 2014. Switzerland is like a 2-sided time warp: part medieval village, part urban futurescape.