Working at CERN (V): Trip to Zurich and St. Gallen
The trip to Saint Gallen and Zurich was one of the longest ones we made by train. The journey from Geneva to St. Gallen took about 4 hours, and is actually the farthest city from Geneva, almost in the Austrian border, near Liechtenstein.
Saint Gallen is the home to a quite impressive abbey, with a more impressive library. The abbey was founded in 613, being one of the most important Benedictine abbeys for many centuries. Even if the abbey is almost completely rebuilt, it has a quite nice baroque church. The wikipedia entry for Abbey of St. Gall offers a picture of the library.
Saint Gallen is the home to a quite impressive abbey, with a more impressive library. The abbey was founded in 613, being one of the most important Benedictine abbeys for many centuries. Even if the abbey is almost completely rebuilt, it has a quite nice baroque church. The wikipedia entry for Abbey of St. Gall offers a picture of the library.
After spending the morning in Saint Gallen, we took the train again to end up in Zurich in about half an hour. We found Zurich to be a big city, but still with small houses at both sides of the Limmat river, ending at the lake, and also modern buildings corresponding to what is the economic capital of Switzerland.
The Großmunster in the river, too, near the lake.
As it usually happens in Switzerland, the perfect weather from the first photographs turned to be rainy after a couple of hours. At the end of the river, in Lake Zürich.
