Best places to visit in St. Gallen, Switzerland
The city of St. Gallen is distinguished by its strategic location, which makes it one of the distinctive international tourist destinations that attract tourists from all over the world, as it is located between three countries: Switzerland, Germany, Austria, and Liechtenstein. Among the many monumental buildings, carved balconies, and colorful walls, the big town of St. Gallen consists of many historical and dedicated museums such as textile museums, and various galleries. This is in addition to local and international restaurants, commercial complexes, modern entertainment centers, and luxury hotels and resorts. As well as its picturesque nature, which is represented by gardens, streams and rivers, and wonderful green forests, as well as the city’s hosting of many annual festivals and events and musical performances, seasonal and annual.
Textilmuseum St. Gallen
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| Textilmuseum St. Gallen - Photo from the museum's official Instagram account |
It is one of the finest museums in the city, as it houses one of the most important collections of textiles in Switzerland along with products and embroideries collected from all over the world, and the place illustrates the impact of regional relations on textiles and clothing around the world.
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| The museum includes many exhibitions that tell of the rich history of the textile industry - Photos from the museum's official account on Instagram |
The museum offers many exhibitions, including the exhibition of wedding suits in which visitors will find exhibits from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, an exhibition that tells the eventful history of the textile industry in eastern Switzerland, and many others.
St. Gallen Kunstmuseum
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| Gallen Art Museum - Photo from the museum's official Instagram account |
Gallen cannot miss the opportunity to visit this amazing art museum, as it contains on its grounds an abundant collection of paintings and sculptures from the late Middle Ages to the 21st century, rare paintings collected from all over Europe and the world. The museum is permanently present, but the museum also holds several temporary exhibitions that display photographs, abstract paintings, and more.
Natural History Museum Gallen
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| Natural History Museum Gallen - Photo from the museum's official Instagram account |
The Museum of Natural History St. Gallen allows visitors to explore the world of local flora and fauna through its many amazing exhibits and interactive displays. The museum covers an area of 2000 square meters, and in it, visitors will find a map of the city and the region showing the geographical distributions of wild animals and humans, dinosaur skeletons, stuffed animals, and rare minerals extracted from Swiss soil, an amazing experience worth visiting.
Botanical Garden
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| Botanical Garden - Photo from the garden's official Instagram account |
The garden displays 8000 species of plants collected from different regions around the world. The plants are distributed in the garden to the outdoor gardens and greenhouses. European plants were placed in the outdoor gardens because they tolerate cold weather, and tropical plants were placed in the greenhouses because they needed high heat.
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| This botanical garden is considered a historic garden - a photo from the garden's official Instagram account |
This botanical garden is considered a historical garden, as it was established in the year 1878, and it was initially a medium-sized garden with an area of 6000 square meters, but it expanded through the ages and became a very huge garden.
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Wildlife Park Peter and Paul
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| Peter and Paul Wildlife Park - Photo courtesy of trails near me |
The park is located at the western edge of the city of St. Gallen and is located specifically on a high hill 780 meters above sea level. The place is filled with beautiful natural areas and wide meadows and dense trees.
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| Wildlife fits seamlessly into the park's undulating tresses - photos from trails near me |
The wildlife fits seamlessly into the park's undulating terrain, where visitors will be able to see red deer, wild boars, lynx, and wild cats in their natural habitat.
Abbey Library of Saint Gall
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| Abbey Library of Saint Gall - Photo from the library's official website |
The wildlife fits seamlessly into the park's undulating terrain, where visitors will be able to see red deer, wild boars, lynx, and wild cats in their natural habitat.
Abbey Library of Saint Gall
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| The library is distinguished by its majestic Rococo-style hall - a photo from the library's official Instagram account |
At the door of the hall, visitors will find a Latin inscription that translates in Arabic to "the pharmacy of the soul", meaning that the books in the place will revive the spirit of visitors. There are currently about 160,000 volumes in the library, in addition to more than 3,000 historical books from the Middle Ages.
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| There are currently about 160,000 medieval volumes in the library - photo from the library's official account on Instagram |
