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The Gurten is a mountain situated just to the south of Bern, the capital city of Switzerland. It is high, and the summit yields views of Bern, of the Jura mountains and of the 
The castle site of
Official website of The Gurten
Photo of The Gurten on Panoramio
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gurten (Mountain) Mountains of Switzerland Mountains of the canton of Bern Mountains of Switzerland under 1000 metres
Alps
The Alps () ; german: Alpen ; it, Alpi ; rm, Alps ; sl, Alpe . are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe, stretching approximately across seven Alpine countries (from west to east): France, Swi ...
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Facilities on the Gurten include a hotel, restaurants, a viewing tower and a children's playground. Winter sports facilities are available in winter. The Gurtenfestival, a music festival, is held every year in the middle of July.
The Gurten is accessible on foot, or by the Gurten Funicular
The Gurten Funicular (german: Gurtenbahn) is a funicular railway in the southern suburbs of the Swiss capital city of Bern. The line links Wabern, in the municipality of Köniz, with the summit of the Gurten mountain (858 m), which overlooks th ...
from Wabern. Wabern can itself be reached from central Bern by tram, train or car. Wabern bei Bern station, on lines S3 and S31 of the Bern S-Bahn
The Bern S-Bahn (german: S-Bahn Bern; french: RER Berne) is an S-Bahn commuter rail network focused on Bern, the capital city of Switzerland. The network is roughly coterminous with Bern's urban agglomeration.
With approximately 9 million trai ...
, is adjacent to the lower station of the funicular, as is the Gurtenbahn stop on Bern tramway route 9.
The castle site of Aegerten
Aegerten is a municipality in the Biel/Bienne administrative district of the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
History
Aegerten is first mentioned in 1225 as ''villa Egerdon''.
There has been a village here since at least the late-Roman era. I ...
lies a good to the south-east of the Gurten summit. The remains consists of a roundish castle hill, which formerly carried a rectangular donjon
A keep (from the Middle English ''kype'') is a type of fortified tower built within castles during the Middle Ages by European nobility. Scholars have debated the scope of the word ''keep'', but usually consider it to refer to large towers in ...
, surrounded on three sides by a wall and rench.
See also
* List of mountains of Switzerland accessible by public transportReferences
External links
Official website of The Gurten
Photo of The Gurten on Panoramio
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gurten (Mountain) Mountains of Switzerland Mountains of the canton of Bern Mountains of Switzerland under 1000 metres