Lonely Planet India - August 2016

DISCOVER FRIBOURG

Two hundred of the Gothic buildings in Fribourg

are under Federal protection. Your walkabout

should take you to the fortress of the founders

flanked by the town hall and the guards hall

all dating back to the Middle Ages; past Spouses

Alley through which couples just married at

the Town Hall walk to the St Nicholas cathedral

for a religious nuptial ceremony and past

the Cathedral itself built between 1283

and 1490 74m high its summit reached

by 365 steps. Ask about the “Rösti Border” on

the Sarine River the imaginary border so to say

between the Swiss-French and Swiss-German

parts of Switzerland. Walk through the Bern

Bridge one of the last bridges made of wood

dating back to the 17th century down Stalden

Street with its Fountain of the Samaritan

Woman at the bottom and onto Rue d’Or.

Look particularly on this “Golden Street”

up at the awnings of the houses and for the

statue of St Christopher with the child

Jesus – in the Middle Ages this was the sign

of a doctor’s house.

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