Apt to impress: Appenzell.

Swiss NewsNbr. 2003, June 2003

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Going Places

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Apt to impress: Appenzell.

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Location: Canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden

Altitude: 780m

Inhabitants: 5,617

Perhaps nowhere else in Switzerland have people kept tradition alive the way they have in Appenzell. Where else can you find men in yellow knickers moseying down Main Street? Indeed, human beings have occupied the area for a very long time, the earliest signs of human life in the Appenzellerland--finds in the Wildkirchli caves--dating back to an interim period in the Ice Age around 30,000 B.C. But it was the abbots of St. Gall and the settlers t...

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