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Jul
21
For many centuries Bex in canton Vaud was Switzerland's only salt producer. Today the historic salt mines attract 67,000 visitors every year. The 50km of galleries chiselled out by hand bear witness to the hard and dangerous working lives of miners in the past. (swissinfo, Michele Andina)
Jul
5
Jul
5
Sepp Steiner is not only big and beefy like the legendary Swiss folklore character, William Tell; he also makes the type of medieval crossbow that Tell used to shoot an apple off his son's head. swissinfo visited him in his workshop in Vitznau, central Switzerland. (swissinfo, Julie Hunt)
Mar
30
Mar
30
16 years ago Richard Bucher opened a brickyard in the monastery of St Urban in central Switzerland. Here he produces bricks and tiles by hand just as the Cistercian monks did 700 years ago. (SF1)
Mar
17
Mar
17
During the "Great Winter" of 1608, a group of Irish earls and their families passed through Switzerland on a journey of exile which marked a turning point in Irish history. This year, descendants of the nobles are marking St Patrick's Day by tracing their route across the Swiss Alps. (swissinfo, Michele Andina)
Mar
10
Mar
10
A lake dwellers' settlement has been found at Lake Lucerne in central Switzerland. It is the most recent discovery of its kind and – even more important - the first to be found in the foothills of the Swiss Alps. A team of underwater archaeologists is now diving beneath the lake to find out more about the settlement's Neolithic people. (SF1)
