Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in St. Gallen, Switzerland

The Kulturmuseum St. Gallen, known as the Historical and Ethnographic Museum of St. Gallen until the end of 2022, is a museum located in the city park of the city of St. Gallen in Switzerland. It was opened in 1921 and today owns the most important cultural-historical collection in northeastern Switzerland; one focus is on the history of the city of St. Gallen.

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Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, is a Swiss art museum founded in 1877 and located in St. Gallen, Switzerland. It is an important museum within Eastern Switzerland because of their expansive European art collection.

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The Theater St. Gallen is a performing arts center for opera, musical, ballet, and theatre in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and considered to be the oldest professional theatre in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

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Tonhalle St. Gallen is a concert hall in St. Gallen, Switzerland. It is a cultural centre, a venue for concerts, banquets and meetings. It is the home of the St. Gallen Symphony Orchestra.

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The Abbey of Saint Gall is a dissolved abbey (747–1805) in a Catholic religious complex in the city of St. Gallen in Switzerland. The Carolingian-era monastery existed from 719, founded by Saint Othmar on the spot where Saint Gall had erected his hermitage. It became an independent principality between 9th and 13th centuries, and was for many centuries one of the chief Benedictine abbeys in Europe. The library of the Abbey is one of the oldest monastic libraries in the world.

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The Stiftskirche St. Gallus und Otmar is a Roman Catholic church in the city of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Once part of the Abbey of St. Gall, it has been the cathedral of the Diocese of St. Gallen since 1847. It is considered one of the last great sacred structures of the Baroque era, and is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

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The abbey library of Saint Gall is a significant medieval monastic library located in St. Gallen, Switzerland. In 1983, the library, as well as the Abbey of St. Gall, were designated a World Heritage Site, as "an outstanding example of a large Carolingian monastery and was, since the 8th century until its secularisation in 1805, one of the most important cultural centres in Europe". It is one of the oldest monastic libraries in the world.

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The open art museum in St. Gallen in Switzerland is a museum of Swiss naïve art and art brut. The sponsor is the Foundation for Swiss Naïve Art and Art Brut, which was founded on 1 February 1988 by the collector couples Erna (1907–1995) and Curt Burgauer (1908–2002), Wilhelmina (Mina) and Josef John, and Simone and Peter Schaufelberger-Breguet. Originally founded as a museum in the warehouse, the museum changed its name to open art museum on January 16, 2023.

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The Lokremise is a former locomotive depot in the city of St. Gallen. The building, which is now used as a cultural centre, is a cultural monument of national importance, together with the adjacent water tower for the water tanks of the steam locomotives. It is the largest surviving locomotive ring depot in Switzerland.

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The Protestant St. Leonhard's Church in St. Gallen was designed by the Berlin architect Johannes Vollmer in neo-Gothic style; the construction was supervised by the St. Gallen architect Ferdinand Wachter. After two years of construction, the church was consecrated on May 1, 1887. The parish of St. Gallen sold the church to a private owner in 2004; since then, the building has been used for cultural events.

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The Catholic parish church of St. Otmar in the city of St. Gallen was built between 1905 and 1908 in the then still independent municipality of Straubenzell. It is named after St. Otmar, patron saint of the city and first abbot of the Prince's Abbey of St. Gall.

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