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Disentis (Mustér) is the last greater village before approaching the passes Lukmanier (Pass Lucmagn) to Tessin/Ticino and Oberalp pass (Alpsu) to the Gotthard region. It is located in the uppermost Vorderrhein valley (Rein Anteriur) in the greatest contiguous language region where people talk Romansh. It is the west most part of the Canton of Grisons (Graubünden) in the Swiss Alps.
Central architectural landmark of the whole reagion is the big benedictine abbey St.Martin. Founded round the year 700 it's the eldest benedictine monastery north of the alps. You see it in the northeast of the panorama.
In the foreground you see the 1000mm narrow gauge rails of the Matterhorn-Gotthard-Bahn (MGB) which is built as a rack railway in its steeper parts as here.
The Oberalp Pass (in the local Romansh language: Alpsu) is located at the border between Disentis (Ca...
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Image taken during a hike with snowshoes in the area of Lucomagno in winter 2011.
This panorama shows the Suworow monument, close to the town of Andermatt in the Swiss Alps. The monu...
Suworow Monument in the Schoellenen Canyon in central swiss canton Uri. in the west you see the old a...
The road through the Schoellenen was for a long time the only way to reach the St. Gotthard pass to I...
A climber climbs to the top of an artifical Ice fall. A tree stump gets permanently sprinkled with wa...
On this artifical Ice fall climbers learn and practice how to climb in vertical ice. A tree stump get...
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