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33 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇨🇭 Switzerland · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Petit-Chasseur Megalithic Necropolis in Valais, Switzerland is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇨🇭 Switzerland · Archaeological wonder
The abbey library of St Gall (German: Stiftsbibliothek) is a significant medieval monastic library located in St. Gallen, Switzerland.
🇨🇭 Switzerland · Ancient village
Iron Age (450–50 BCE) · La Tène culture — Celtic Iron Age
Type site of the La Tène Celtic Iron Age culture, discovered 1857 on the northern shore of Lake Neuchâtel.
🇨🇭 Switzerland · Ancient city
Roman (44 BCE–400 CE) · Roman (Colonia Augusta Rauracorum)
Best-preserved Roman colonial city on the Rhine, founded 44 BCE and monumentalized under Augustus.
🇨🇭 Switzerland · Archaeological wonder
Erlenbach–Winkel is one of the 111 serial sites of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, of which are 56 located in Switzerland.
🇨🇭 Switzerland · Archaeological wonder
archaeological site in Studen in the canton of Bern, Switzerland
🇨🇭 Switzerland · Archaeological wonder
Martigny (French pronunciation: [maʁtiɲi]; German: Martinach, pronounced [ˈmaʁtiːnaːx]; Latin: Octodurum) is a municipality and the capital town of the district of Martigny, canton of Valais,…
🇨🇭 Switzerland · Archaeological wonder
Freienbach–Hurden Rosshorn, more often called Hurden Rosshorn or simply Rosshorn, is one of the 111 serial sites of the UNESCO World Heritage Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, of which are…
🇨🇭 Switzerland · Archaeological wonder
Kempraten-Lenggis is a village (Kirchdorf) within the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona, Wahlkreis (constituency) of See-Gaster in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
🇨🇭 Switzerland · Archaeological wonder
Centum Prata is the name of a Roman vicus on the eastern shore of Lake Zurich, whose remains are located in Kempraten (to which the vicus lends its name) in the municipality Rapperswil-Jona, canton…
🇨🇭 Switzerland · Archaeological wonder
Horgen (Swiss Standard German pronunciation: [ˈhɔrɡn̩]) is a municipality in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.
🇨🇭 Switzerland · Archaeological wonder
Aquae Helveticae was a vicus and mineral spa established in the 1st century AD near the Roman legion camp of Vindonissa. It is in and was the origin of the name of Baden in Switzerland.
🇨🇭 Switzerland · Archaeological wonder
Freienbach–Hurden Seefeld is one of the 111 serial sites of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, of which are 56 located in Switzerland.
🇨🇭 Switzerland · Ancient village
Busskirch is a village (Kirchdorf) within the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
🇨🇭 Switzerland · Archaeological wonder
roman vicus and fort in Winterthur canton of Zurich, Switzerland
🇨🇭 Switzerland · Archaeological wonder
UNESCO World Heritage Site in Canton of Zürich, Switzerland
🇨🇭 Switzerland · Archaeological wonder
archaeological site in Nyon in the canton of Vaud, Suisse
🇨🇭 Switzerland · Archaeological wonder
public square in the city of Zürich, Switzerland
🇨🇭 Switzerland · Archaeological wonder
Basel-Münsterhügel is the site of an Iron Age (late La Tène) fort or oppidum, known as Basel oppidum, constructed by the Gaulish Rauraci after the battle of Bibracte in 58 BC.
🇨🇭 Switzerland · Ancient city
Aventicum was the largest town and capital of Roman Switzerland (Helvetia or Civitas Helvetiorum). Its remains are beside the modern town of Avenches.
🇨🇭 Switzerland · Temple complex
The Fraumünster (German pronunciation: [fʁaʊ̯ˈmʏnstɐ]; lit. in English: Women's Minster) is a church in Zurich, Switzerland, which was built on the remains of a former abbey for aristocratic women…
