Zug

The city of Zug is located at the northeast end of the lake that shares its name and has a population of 23 thousand.¹ The tallest completed building as of 2013 is a 19 story apartment building called Uptown.² The municipality includes the remains of several Neolithic pile dwellings that are honored as part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.³

External references

view of Zug, Helvetia (Schweiz or Switzerland)

Footnotes

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Switzerland, 2012 figure, accessed 9/13/2013.
2. emporis.com, accessed 11/22/2013. The Park-Tower will be taller but is not yet completed.
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_Pile_dwellings_around_the_Alps, accessed 11/19/2013. The modern names for the local sites are Oterswil/ Insel Eielen (occupied 3000 to 2000 BCE), Riedmatt (occupied 3500 to 2500 and again 1500 to 1000 BCE) and Sumpf (occupied 1500 to 500 BCE).