Schloss Spiez
Lakeside medieval castle with a stone keep, period rooms and an early Romanesque church beside it.
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This guide to Schloss Spiez, on Lake Thun near Interlaken, follows a legend about Rudolf the Second, King of Burgundy, a recurring dream, and the lords of Strättligen who hosted him here. It moves between the tenth century and the fourteen hundreds, when a parish chronicler set the tale down, and asks what the castle and its little church really owe to that story. Best heard beside the church wall at the castle's foot, facing along the shore.
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