The Thur waterfalls are two cascades located on the river

Thur Thur may refer to: *Thur (France), a river in Alsace, France *Thur (Rhine), a river in East Switzerland *Thursday, as an abbreviation *''Thur.'', taxonomic author abbreviation for French botanist Gustave Thuret Gustave Adolphe Thuret (23 May 1 ...

approximately ten minutes walking from the village square of

Unterwasser Unterwasser ( en, Underwater) is a village in the Toggenburg region of the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland, situated at the confluence of the two streams forming the upper Thur (Switzerland), Thur (known as ''Säntisthur'' and ''Wildhausthur''). ...

in the canton of St. Gallen,

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

, The water cascades down from steep rock faces, and on highest point drops from . The road along the

waterfall A waterfall is a point in a river or stream where water flows over a vertical drop or a series of steep drops. Waterfalls also occur where meltwater drops over the edge of a tabular iceberg or ice shelf. Waterfalls can be formed in several wa ...

s was developed in 1927 and includes three

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