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Monument Attractions In Altdorf

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Altdorf is a historic and statistical town and a municipality in the Swiss canton of Uri. It is also the capital of Uri. The municipality covers an area of 10.21 square kilometres and is located just about 2 kilometres south of the mouth of the Reuss, which flows into the Lake Lucerne, here called the Urnersee. The town Altdorf lies at an altitude of 458 metres above sea level on the right, eastern bank of the Reuss, a flat, alluvial land of up to 2 kilometres diameter between otherwise steep and high Alpine mountains of around 3,000 metres elevation, but the municipality also covers the Alpine pasture landscape of Eggbergen about 1,000 metres above Al...
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  • 1. Wilhelm Tell Monument Altdorf
    William Tell is a folk hero of Switzerland. According to the legend, Tell was an expert marksman with the crossbow who assassinated Albrecht Gessler, a tyrannical reeve of the Habsburg dukes positioned in Altdorf, in the canton of Uri. Tell's defiance and tyrannicide encouraged the population to open rebellion and a pact against the foreign rulers with neighbouring Schwyz and Unterwalden, marking the foundation of the Swiss Confederacy. Set in the early 14th century , the first written records of the legend date to the latter part of the 15th century, when the Swiss Confederacy was gaining military and political influence. Tell is a central figure in Swiss national historiography, along with Arnold von Winkelried the hero of Sempach . He was important as a symbol during the formative stage...
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