Le Roi du Monde
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Bosco Gurin is a village in Ticino at an altitude of 1,506 metres. Its history is associated with Walser settlers arriving in the thirteenth century. The local account connects its cultural traditions with characteristic buildings and rural life, and describes a local language still spoken by residents.
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The University of Zurich’s botanical garden in Seefeld includes domed display houses and around 7,000 plant species. It forms part of the Institute for Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, linking the garden to university research and teaching. It also belongs to the Museumsnetz Zürich network.
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Geneva’s botanical institution maintains living collections alongside an herbarium, scientific library, archives and seed, DNA and tissue banks. Its work includes research, conservation of threatened species, training and public education. The garden presents plants from varied ecosystems.
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Gimmelwald is a village in the Bernese Oberland at an altitude of 1,367 metres. Originally a Walser settlement, it is included in Switzerland’s inventory of townscapes worthy of protection. Chalets, cheese stores and farm animals are features of its village setting.
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Lausanne Cathedral's construction began from 1170 and continued into the first half of the thirteenth century. A Romanesque apse preceded the building's Gothic development. Its painted south portal was added around 1225–1235; Pope Gregory X consecrated the cathedral on 20 October 1275.
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Lavaux is a terraced vineyard landscape above Lake Geneva between Lausanne and Vevey. The heritage association describes its cultivation as extending over more than a thousand years. About 180 winegrowing families cultivate Chasselas and maintain its terrace walls.
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St Gallen's former monastery church became the city's Catholic parish church and subsequently the cathedral when the diocese was established. The surrounding abbey district has held UNESCO World Heritage status since 1983; the former princely abbey was dissolved in 1805.