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  2. Architecture of Switzerland - Wikipedia

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    The wide variety of local styles and building materials was reduced to a wooden cottage with a gently sloping roof and wide, well-supported eaves set at right angles to the front of the house. At first, chalets appeared in the gardens and forests of wealthy European aristocrats, before spreading to spa resorts and other tourist destinations. By ...

  3. Swiss chalet style - Wikipedia

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    Swiss chalet style (German: Schweizerstil, Norwegian: sveitserstil) is an architectural style of Late Historicism, originally inspired by rural chalets in Switzerland and the Alpine (mountainous) regions of Central Europe. The style refers to traditional building designs characterised by widely projecting roofs and facades richly decorated with ...

  4. Lumut - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikivoyage; Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Lumut can refer to : Lumut, Perak, a coastal ...

  5. Villa Diodati - Wikipedia

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    The Villa Diodati. The Villa Diodati is a mansion in the village of Cologny near Lake Geneva in Switzerland, notable because Lord Byron rented it and stayed there with Dr. John Polidori in the summer of 1816.

  6. National Redoubt (Switzerland) - Wikipedia

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    The Swiss strategy sought to exact a high price from any direct ground attack on Swiss territory. Control of the Alpine crossings remained a cornerstone of the Swiss strategy of neutrality. The dense network of passive and active barriers and large and small fortifications allowed considerable flexibility in the disposition of Swiss forces and ...

  7. Lumut Lighthouse - Wikipedia

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    Located overseeing the Lumut Beach which caused the building stand out in the area. [5] The lighthouse also sits at an estimated distance of 15.2 kilometres (9.4 mi) away from Seria. [7] It is under the supervision of the Ports Department and the Marine Department before being transferred over to the Maritime Port Authority Brunei Darussalam ...

  8. Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the City of Geneva

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    The garden also incorporates a zoo dedicated to conservation and the Botanicum (a family space) near the lake. The Index Herbariorum code assigned to the herbarium of this botanic garden is G [2] and it is used when citing housed specimens. The botanical garden produces Candollea, (Organe du Conservatoire et du Jardin Botaniques de la Ville de ...

  9. Swiss Cottage - Wikipedia

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    Swiss Cottage is an area in the London Borough of Camden, England. It is centred on the junction of Avenue Road and Finchley Road and includes Swiss Cottage tube station. Swiss Cottage lies 3.25 miles (5.23 km) north-northwest of Charing Cross. The area was named after a public house in the centre of it, known as "Ye Olde Swiss Cottage".