Rivers and lakes: 諸島

マッジョーレ湖に浮かぶブリッサーゴ諸島には、スイスでも唯一となる島全体が植物園という珍しい場所があります。湖の浮き島という環境や極地的に特別な気象条件のおかげで、ここでは世界中から集められた約1500種類の植物や花を楽しむことができます。

“... nowhere have I felt so truly happy as on St. Peter's Island in the middle of Lake Biel,” wrote Jean-Jacques Rousseau shortly before his death, wistfully recalling his all too short stay on the island in the autumn of 1765.

Nestled between the Rigi and the Grosser and Kleiner Mythen mountains in the canton of Schwyz lies Lake Lauerz and its pleasure island of Schwanau that is about 200m long.