St. Gallen, Switzerland 4K - A beautiful Swiss city with a splendid World Heritage Site

Today we invite you to join us in a walking tour around St. Gallen, the compact metropolis of eastern Switzerland between Lake Constance and Appenzellerland, that has a charming, traffic-free old town. Colourfully-painted oriel windows are a town feature. The Abbey precinct with the cathedral and Abbey Library has been accorded UNESCO World Heritage listing. St.Gallen’s most famous landmark is its Baroque cathedral with the Abbey Library, which houses some 170,000 documents – in part hand-written and over a thousand years old. The library probably also has Switzerland’s most beautiful Rococo hall. The entire Abbey precinct was declared a UNESCO world heritage site in 1983. The name and foundation of the town stem from the Irish missionary monk Gallus who founded a hermitage here around 612. From 747, the then St.Gallen monastery was already following Benedictine Rule, which required the contemplative study of books and accordingly also stipulated the presence of a library. In the Middle Ages, the town developed into an important hub of culture and education in Europe. Later, the St.Gallen embroideries attracted international recognition and brought prosperity to the town. The video was filmed in February 2022 🌏 More information about St. Gallen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Gallen https://www.stadt.sg.ch/home.html https://www.myswitzerland.com/en-ch/d... 🌏 Sights seen in this video: The City Lounge - Red Square (0:01) The first public lounge in Switzerland by artist Pipilotti Rist and architect Carlos Martinez The Old Town (begins at 3:03 - most of the video was filmed in the Old Town) The St. Lawrence Church (St. Laurenzen Kirche) (9:38) The magnificent Abbey of St. Gall, a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site (11:04) 🔴 Recommended videos/playlists: • Stunning historical villages of Switzerland, Ep.1 - Bauen, Lake Lucerne, Canton Uri:    • Stunning historical villages of Switzerlan...   • Lungern, Switzerland - A magnificent village next to the emerald green Lungernsee:    • Lungern, Switzerland - A magnificent villa...   • Brienz Switzerland walking tour 4K:    • Brienz Switzerland walking tour 4K - The w...   • Bernese Oberland Region Playlist:    • Interlaken Switzerland walking tour 4K - M...   🎶 Music by Epidemic Sound - https://www.epidemicsound.com/referra... #saintgallen #sanktgallen #switzerland #swisscity