Photos † Richard Flynn

I spent two weeks travelling around Switzerland, seeing places I hadn't by then seen during my year abroad in Geneva. In this set: Basle; Lucerne; Interlaken, Thunersee, Spiez, Mürren, and the Schilthorn; St Gall; Lake Constance; Liechtenstein; and Einsiedeln.

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Richard Flynn > Primary colours • Walking from Malbun to Triesenberg.

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Richard Flynn > How green is my valley • View through a valley on the walk from Malbun to Triesenberg.

Richard Flynn > Undulating • On the walk from Malbun to Triesenberg

Richard Flynn > Year-round views guaranteed • A house looking down on the valley of the Rhine. I think this house is in the village of Steinort, which I passed through on my way down from Malbun to Triesenberg. The township visible on the valley floor (in the centre of the photograph) is Triesen. On the other side of the Rhine is Switzerland (the Canton of St Gall/Sankt Gallen).

Richard Flynn > Triesenberg • St Joseph’s parish church, with its onion dome, is the landmark of the village of Triesenberg, which is in the hills laterally between Triesen and Vaduz which sit on the floor of the valley of the Rhine.

Apparently Triesenberg is remarkable because many of its inhabitants speak a distinct dialect, brought by Walser immigrants (that is to say, people from the Swiss canton of Valais/Wallis) in the twelfth or thirteenth centuries. There are several theories about why the Walsers originally left the Valais.

Richard Flynn > Pilgrims • A stream of pilgrims entering the Abbey church at Einsiedeln. From the banner at the head of the procession, it seemed that these people came from the parish of St Meinrad in Radolfzell, on the German shore of Lake Constance.

Richard Flynn > The black Madonna • The Lady chapel, with its Black Madonna, is a much revered point for pilgrims to Einsiedeln Abbey.

Richard Flynn > Einsiedeln

Primary colours • Walking from Malbun to Triesenberg.

> Primary colours • Walking from Malbun to Triesenberg.

Primary colours • Walking from Malbun to Triesenberg.

Camera: Canon (Canon Eos 20d) |

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