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Stockalper Tower Gondo

Stockalper Tower Gondo

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Stockalper Tower Gondo

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Location: Zwischbergen, Brig, Valais, Switzerland

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Volker Rump 🌲〽️

April 9, 2022

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The tower was commissioned by Kaspar Jodokus Stockalper in the late Middle Ages and served as a caravanserai, a transshipment point and overnight stop on the Simplon between Brig and Domodossola.

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Assisipilger

February 12, 2025

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An interesting building from a trading empire of the Baroque period, which you should at least take a little time to see, despite the quick descent from the Simplon Pass: …

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February 12, 2025

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"Kaspar Stockalper (* 14 July 1609 in Brig; † 29 April 1691 ibid) was a Swiss entrepreneur and politician. He invested the large dowry that his fiancée Magdalena Zumbrunn brought …

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Elevation 850 m

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