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William Tell (German: Wilhelm Tell, pronounced [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈtɛl] ⓘ; French: Guillaume Tell; Italian: Guglielmo Tell; Romansh: Guglielm Tell) is a legendary folk hero of Switzerland. According to the legend, Tell was an expert mountain climber and marksman with a crossbow who assassinated Albrecht Gessler , a tyrannical reeve of the ...
Tell's leap (Tellensprung) from the boat of his captors at the Axen cliffs, fresco by frescos by Ernst Stückelberg, 1880-1882.The Tellskapelle ("Tell's chapel") [1] is located on the Tellsplatte or Tellenplatte ("Tell's slab") on the shore of Lake Lucerne at the foot of the Axenberg cliffs (an offshoot ridge of Glärnisch, 1,022 m), in the Sisikon municipality, canton of Uri, Switzerland
The 'Tell Monument' (German: Telldenkmal) is a memorial to William Tell in the market place of Altdorf, Canton of Uri, Switzerland. Tell monument in 2022. The bronze statue by sculptor Richard Kissling was inaugurated on August 28, 1895, at the foot of an old tower. It shows the Swiss national hero with his crossbow and accompanied by his son.
According to the legend, Altdorf's marketplace is the site where William Tell shot the apple from his son's head, [3] and in 1895 sculptor Richard Kissling unveiled a bronze statue commemorating the feat at the foot of an old tower. [13] In 1899 a theatre was opened close to the town's center for the purpose of performing Schiller's play of ...
As Swiss legend goes, William Tell became a medieval folk hero when occupying Austrian militants forced him into a sick game: He was forced to fire an arrow into an apple atop his son’s head to ...
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east.
The first look images of “William Tell,” the epic story of the crossbow-wielding warrior, have been released. The feature film is in its last week of principal photography in Italy.
Tellgovie (in German Tellgau, " the land of William Tell") is the name of one of the three Swiss republics imagined in 1798. It was supposed to bring together the Canton of Waldstätten and the Three Leagues. On 16 March 1798, eleven days after occupying Bern, General Brune proclaimed the partition of Switzerland into three states: