Sankt Gallen

Sankt Gallen is a city of 70 thousand¹ located in northeastern Helvetia (Schweiz or Switzerland) between Lake Konstanz (Constance) and the Appenzell Alpen (Alps). It is famous for its Convent of St. Gall, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Convent was started in the 8th century and has a library with 400 volumes over a thousand years old. It was re-modeled in the 18th century in the Baroque style, and secularized in 1805.² Perhaps the tallest building today is the Kantonsspittal St. Gallen Haus 04, a hospital finished in 1975.³

External references

Abbey of St. Gall, Sankt Gallen, Helvetia (Schweiz or Switzerland)

Footnotes

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Switzerland, 2012 figure, accessed 9/13/2013.
2. UNESCO, World Heritage Sites (Firefly Books, 2010).
3. It is the tallest building listed for the city in emporis.com, accessed 11/19/2013.