Habsburg is a municipality in the canton of Aargau, Switzerland, above the Aar valley. As of 2000, the population was 368. The territory of the municipality is 2.23 km.
Around 1020, Radbot of Habsburg built Habsburg castle, which became the family seat of the Habsburg. Though the family did not rule the land after the 1400s, the historic arms of Habsburg, a lion on a gold field, show up in Austrian arms up to the end of the Imperial period. The modern arms show Habsburg Castle. The area around this castle was covered by forests and only cleared around 1500.
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Schaffhausen is a city in northern Switzerland; it has an estimated population of 33,700 in 2003.
The old portion of the city has many fine Renaissance era buildings decorated with exterior frescos and sculpture, as well as the impressive old canton fortress, the Munot. A train runs out of town to the nearby Rhine Falls in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, Europe's largest waterfall, a tourist attraction. Schaffhausen is the capital of the Swiss of Canton of Schaffhausen.
History
Schaffhausen was a city state in the Middle Ages, documented to have struck its own coins starting in 1005. For a time it was under Habsburg
Rolle is a small town in the Vaud canton of Switzerland, situated near Geneva, Switzerland. This quiet town is home to one of the most prestigious boarding schools in the world, the Institute Le Rosey.
Sion is a town in Switzerland, on the Rhône River. It is located in the Swiss canton of Valais, of which it is the capital. In 2001, the population was 27,200.
The Roman Catholic diocese of Sion is the oldest in Switzerland and one of the oldest north of the Alps.
Sion lost to Turin, Italy in its bid to host the 2006 Winter Olympics.
Dornbirn is a city of roughly 44,000 inhabitants in the province of Vorarlberg in Austria, near Switzerland, Germany and Liechtenstein. The Dornbirner Ach river flows through the city and later into the Lake of Constance.
The largest and busiest city in Vorarlberg, Dornbirn is an important commercial center and shopping mecca. The regional ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Institution), the Fachhochschule (Technical Academy), the Higher Technical Vocational College (HTL) and many large companies are situated there. The city used to be a major centre of the textiles industry, which has been in decline since the 1980s.
Dornbirn is also the name of a county,
Bex is a commune in Switzerland in the canton of Vaud, located in the district of Aigle. It has an area of 96.60 km², an altitude of 424 m, and 5709 inhabitants.
