Burgruine Unspunnen
Medieval castle ruin on a rocky spur, its round tower overlooking the first herdsmen's festival meadow.
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This guide to Burgruine Unspunnen, the castle ruin above Wilderswil near Interlaken, turns on a summer day in eighteen oh-five, when Bern patricians and the painter Franz Niklaus König staged a herdsmen's festival in the meadow below. You'll hear about Schwingen wrestlers, a very heavy stone, alphorn players and the European aristocrats who came to watch. Best heard by the round tower, looking down toward the meadow and the Jungfrau.
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