Medieval University City Fribourg, surrounded on three sides by the Sarine river is the capital of the Swiss canton of Fribourg and the district La Sarine. It is located on the Swiss Plateau, and is a major economic, administrative and educational center on the cultural border between German and French Switzerland. Both French and German are widely spoken by the native residents. The city …
Gruyères with its rolling green landscape and the peaks of the Fribourg Pre-Alps is a town in the district of Gruyère in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. The medieval town is an important tourist location in the upper valley of the Saane/Sarine river, and gives its name to Gruyère cheese. Gruyères is 810 m (2,660 ft) above sea level, 4.5 km (2.8 mi) south-south-east of the district capital Bulle. The …