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Overview of the Goetheanum at the end of the day: the monumental concrete facade, with its overlapping angular and curved volumes, is pierced by tall windows and dark wooden doors aligned on the ground floor; a few shrubs line the entrance, under a blue sky streaked with pink and golden clouds.

Solothurn

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The canton of Solothurn brings together 3 places referenced on Swiss Highlights: 1 natural site, 1 heritage or cultural site, 0 villages and 1 town.

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Overview of the Goetheanum at the end of the day: the monumental concrete facade, with its overlapping angular and curved volumes, is pierced by tall windows and dark wooden doors aligned on the ground floor; a few shrubs line the entrance, under a blue sky streaked with pink and golden clouds.

Monument · Dornach, Solothurn

Goetheanum

The first building, in wood, burned down on New Year's night 1923. The second, raised from 1925 to 1928, was the first monumental building in reinforced concrete; its great hall was not inaugurated until 1998.

The autumn path leading to the hermitage of Saint Verena winds between two limestone walls pierced with small caves, beneath a canopy of russet and golden foliage; in the background, the white chapel with its red bell turret nestles against the rock, surrounded by a fenced garden and an old-fashioned street lamp.

Gorge hermitage · Solothurn

Gorges de Sainte-Vérène

Landscaped as a Romantic garden in the late 18th century by the French diplomat Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, the gorge is ISOS-listed, and its hermitage is a class A Swiss cultural property.

The old town of Solothurn is reflected in the Aare, dominated by the pale towers of St. Ursus Cathedral, under a clear blue sky.

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Solothurn

Founded by Rome as Salodurum, admitted to the Confederation in 1481, Solothurn keeps towers and gates from the 15th-16th centuries around its baroque cathedral and its town hall, completed in 1711. 16,847 inhabitants at the end of 2024.

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Overview of the Goetheanum at the end of the day: the monumental concrete facade, with its overlapping angular and curved volumes, is pierced by tall windows and dark wooden doors aligned on the ground floor; a few shrubs line the entrance, under a blue sky streaked with pink and golden clouds.

Monument · Dornach, Solothurn

Goetheanum

The first building, in wood, burned down on New Year's night 1923. The second, raised from 1925 to 1928, was the first monumental building in reinforced concrete; its great hall was not inaugurated until 1998.

The autumn path leading to the hermitage of Saint Verena winds between two limestone walls pierced with small caves, beneath a canopy of russet and golden foliage; in the background, the white chapel with its red bell turret nestles against the rock, surrounded by a fenced garden and an old-fashioned street lamp.

Gorge hermitage · Solothurn

Gorges de Sainte-Vérène

Landscaped as a Romantic garden in the late 18th century by the French diplomat Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, the gorge is ISOS-listed, and its hermitage is a class A Swiss cultural property.

The old town of Solothurn is reflected in the Aare, dominated by the pale towers of St. Ursus Cathedral, under a clear blue sky.

City of ambassadors

Solothurn

Founded by Rome as Salodurum, admitted to the Confederation in 1481, Solothurn keeps towers and gates from the 15th-16th centuries around its baroque cathedral and its town hall, completed in 1711. 16,847 inhabitants at the end of 2024.