Tourism in Switzerland usually refers to the category of intellectual, ecological or sporting vacation options. People come here to get in touch with untouched nature, look at historical and architectural monuments, go to an exhibition or go skiing in the mountains. What about adding some magic?
So, what are “places of power”?
These can be separate regions of the planet, natural and landscape monuments (mountains, caves, lakes). Often such places are associated with geological anomalies, and, by the way, they can influence a person both positively and negatively. Prehistoric archaeological cultures often arose around these places, religious buildings were built, which “overgrown” later with both cultural meanings and material manifestations of these meanings, and in this respect they became “energetically charged”
1. Muri Monastery (Die Klosterkirche von Muri)
This monastery. The external link is not only a monument of Swiss culture of national importance, but also the most mysterious "place of power" in Switzerland. His story is directly connected with the powerful European royal Habsburg-Alsace-Lorraine house. Founded in 1027, the monastery was inhabited by Benedictine monks from the neighboring, equally important monastery Einsiedeln.
In the 80-90s of the 17th century, it was rebuilt, at the same time the present church at the monastery with two unusual sharp spiers appeared. This church is unusual not only outside and not only with its very fascinating stained glass windows. It is based on octagon, which is a reflection of belief in a special magical power of both the number 8 (the symbol of paradise found) and the octahedron in general.
2. Bern’s Old Town
The old center of the political center of Switzerland is not in vain listed in the UNESCO Cultural Heritage list. Here not only the medieval atmosphere of one of the most important military and cultural-political centers of the Swiss plain has been preserved, but in fact there is a special energy connected in many respects to the river Aare, which loops and bends around the city center from three sides.
In so-called geobiology, the presence of certain “energy lines” is always associated with rivers. In addition, another similar line connects two urban high-altitude dominants: the ancient city of Münster, whose tower is already visible when approaching the city, and the Peter and Paul Church (Die Kirche St. Peter und Paul). By the way, it was here, in old Bern, at the beginning of the 20th century, that the universal genius Albert Einstein worked, and it was here that he laid the foundation of his theory of relativity. Accident? How to know!
3. The temple in the village of Ainigen on the Lake of Thun
Guides inviting you to standard guided tours around Switzerland are unlikely to tell you about this small church. And in vain, because the temple in the village of Einigen on the Lake of Thun (Einigen am Thunersee External link) can claim to be one of the most interesting monuments of the church architecture of the Bernese Highland region. The place on which this simple-looking church stands is also chosen by the Celts. Here was located one of the ancient Celtic temples.
Around the middle of the 7th century AD The first Christian church was built here, and its architectural center was placed directly above the former celtic site of worship. In the 10th century, a new church was built on the foundations of the old church, which was also dedicated to St. Michael. In the 13th century, after the fire, the church was rebuilt and practically acquired the form in which it lived to our years, being the most interesting example of early Romantic church architecture.
As experts say, the church is located directly above the powerful water-dwelling connected to the lake. In their opinion, underground currents form a field of static electricity as a result of friction of the water mass and underground layers of the rock. Electromagnetic radiation can be felt on the surface and affect well-being. Is it so? It’s not for us to judge, but the fact that the St. Michael’s Church in the village of Ainigen on Lake Thun is one of the most interesting architectural monuments of Switzerland - there is no doubt about that.
4. Geneva and the Reformation Wall
The Reformation Wall (Monument international de la Reformation, Internationales Reformationsdenkmal) is somewhat out of this series. Indeed, it is in no way connected with the Celts; a memorial in honor of the main actors and events of the Protestant Reformation was opened in 1909 in honor of the 400th anniversary of the birth of J. Calvin and the 350th anniversary of the founding of the University of Geneva.
Along the wall, symbolizing its unity, the motto of the Reformation and Geneva “Post Tenebras Lux” (Latin: “After darkness the light”) is engraved, and on the pedestal of the central group of statues there is a христΣ Christogram. And yet, experts say that this inscription over time acquired properties characteristic of the natural "center of power." Is that so or not? Try to find out for yourself and tell us about your feelings!
5. Sils-Maria and Swiss National Park
Unusual properties of this region. The external link in the canton of Grisons noted for themselves in the mid-19th century, the British, the inventors of modern mass tourism in general and tourism in Switzerland in particular. The region between the Silsersee and Silvaplanersee lakes is a territory with high energy.
No wonder this part of Switzerland is inextricably linked with the personality of the great philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who for a long time, from 1881 to 1888, lived in the village of Sils (Sils-Maria), located 20 minutes by bus from the famous resort of St. Moritz. It was here that he wrote or conceived many of his iconic texts, including “Thus spoke Zarathustra,” “On the other side of good and evil,” “Merry science,” “Twilight of idols,” “Antichrist.”
Now on the bank of the Zilvaplanersee there is a memorial plaque in his honor. Here, in this region, the only National Park in Switzerland that opened in 1914 begins. On its territory, human intervention in the free development of nature has been reduced to almost zero, which cannot but give this corner of the Confederation special charm, energy and charm.
6. Cathedral of the City of Chur
Chur is perhaps the oldest urban settlement in Switzerland; the history of human settlement in this region of the current canton of Graubünden dates back at least 5,000 years. The construction of the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin (Kathedrale St. Mariä Himmelfahrt), which towers in the center of the former capital of the Roman province of Retia Prima (Rätia prima), began in the 12th century. It was then that an irregular temple was formed.
Today it is a late-Roman three-nave basilica. The appearance of the main western facade is formed by the arched portal of 1250, framed by twelve thin columns. Inside the temple stands a carved wooden altar made in 1492 by Jacob Russ (German: Jakob Ruß), and the space under the choir is occupied by a two-member crypt. In the Middle Ages, it was used as a burial place for members of noble families who were influential in the local principality-bishopric. Being actually a cemetery, this cathedral is able to lead a person to very complex reflections on the frailty of all things.
7. Bad Ragaz
The famous thermal resort in the town of Bad Ragaz (Bad Ragaz), which is in the canton of St. Gallen, is quite well known outside of Switzerland, but we are not talking about it, but about the unique trees of the sequoia family (lat. Sequoioideae), growing in the park adjacent to the Hof Ragaz and Quellenhof hotels. More precisely, it will be about two giant sequoiadendron trees (Latin: Sequoiadendron giganteum), whose height reaches 36 meters. The diameter of one of them is about 1, 90 m., The other - 1.70 m.
Guests of the resort are encouraged to use these unique trees as a living source of living energy. Especially sensitive people say that these trees simply radiate a force field that is able to positively affect the general state of the human body. Is it so? Let everyone decide for himself, one thing is clear - very few people know that, it turns out, there is no need to fly to Australia or the USA in order to see the redwoods, these giants of the earth’s flora.
8. Salt Mine in the region of Be, canton of Vaud
Approximately 60 million years ago, the modern valley of the Rhone River was the real shallow sea, thanks to which much later, in our time, here, in the mountains of the canton of Vaud, in the region of the town of Be (Bex) a large salt deposit was created. External link. Active extraction of "white gold" began here in 1684, and today a labyrinth of numerous passages and tunnels with a total length of more than 50 km has emerged here.
According to supporters of the geobiological theory, the complex of mines and tunnels that has arisen in the mining depths, is the cause of the unique distortion of the natural magnetic field. As a result, on the slopes of the mountains there are places where cars regularly fail engines. The level of natural radiation rises here to an unusual 29 x-rays per hour, while in the mines themselves, at a depth of about 400 meters, there is no radiation at all.
Here everything is done for the pleasure of tourists. As stated on the official website of the External Reference of the Swiss Tourism Office, guests can learn "about the history of the extraction of white gold from 1684 to the present day." They can ride “through the underground world on trolleys”, visit “a unique restaurant located in the thickness of the mountain at a depth of 400 meters. And lovers of thrills waiting for a walk through the mines and tunnels laid more than 200 years ago. ”
Nevertheless, one should not be surprised that after such adventures you will feel extremely exhausted and tired. The mountain is very harsh on the aliens, it requires tribute from them in the form of vital energy. It is quite possible to recover, however, by drinking a glass of a very pleasant local Chablis.
9. Gruyere Region
Located between Bern and Friborg, the Gruyère region is built, as it were, in the zone of attraction of Mount Moléson. Its height is not more than 2 thousand meters above sea level, but as a powerful energy source it is, undoubtedly, the dominant geomagnetic phenomenon of this picturesque corner of Switzerland. No wonder it is here that the majestic castle of the same name Gruyère towers, and it is not for nothing that the roots of the gloomy, but strangely attractive works of Hans-Rudi Giger (1940-2014), who invented the cult monster named Alien ).
Those who will travel in the region, however, we advise, in addition to the standard points of any excursion tour, to pay attention to the village Grandvillard (Grandvillard External link), not far from which there is a modest roadside La Daudaz. A rather unusual name for these places comes, again, from the Celtic word meaning "a sharp rise up." The church was first mentioned in 1162, in 1701 it was rebuilt in the Romanesque style. It is located on the site of an old abandoned cemetery, and therefore its aura surrounds the corresponding, similar to the atmosphere of other novels of Stephen King.
They say that at night in the church someone lights the fire. Local legend says that this is the spirit of a priest who promised a widow to hold a mass for her dead husband. Having fulfilled his promise, the pastor died, not having time to record the fact of the mass in the official register. Since then, he is doomed to regularly appear in the church of La Daudaz in the hope that someone from the living will help him to celebrate the mass again and register it in the church book. It seems that this is a very “Swiss” horror film, in the center of which there is an instructive idea that everything in the world should be done as it should be, according to the rules.
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