• Switzerland Guide

  • Introduction to Switzerland
  • Weather
  • Things not to miss
  • Getting around
  • Money
  • Entry requirements
  • Public holidays

• Explore Switzerland

  • Geneva
  • Lausanne and Lake Geneva
  • The Arc Jurassien
  • Basel
  • Bern
  • The Emmental
  • Solothurn
  • Fribourg
  • The Bernese Oberland
  • Valais
  • Luzern
  • Zentralschweiz
  • Zürich
  • Ostschweiz and Liechtenstein
  • Graubünden
  • Ticino

• Cities

  • Basel
    
  • Bern
    
  • Geneva
    
  • Lausanne
    
  • Luzern
    
  • Schaffhausen
    
  • St Gallen
    
  • Winterthur
    
  • Zürich
    

Switzerland Guide

Ostschweiz and Liechtenstein

St Gallen

• Accommodation
• Eating
• Nightlife

The main urban centre of eastern Switzerland, St Gallen is a relaxed and conservative provincial city set amidst rolling countryside between the Appenzell hills and the Bodensee. It's a gentle place, with a busy modern centre and a beautiful Old Town. The centrepiece is an extraordinarily lavish Baroque abbey, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site: its cathedral is impressive enough alone, but the abbey library is celebrated as Switzerland's finest secular Rococo interior and contains a world-class collection of ancient books and manuscripts.