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Switzerland is the Matterhorn... but so much more as well |
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Switzerland is 7 million inhabitants, 4 official languages and 26 cantons  
Seven million inhabitants in a territory of some 40,000 km2, at the crossroads of many great European countries. There are four official languages: German, in fact an assembly of dialects known as “swiss german” (spoken by about 65% of the population in the north and the centre of the country), French (20% in the west of the country), Italian (about 8% in the south), Romanche (less than 1% in the south-east of the Grisons canton) and other languages (around 7%). |
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A brief history of Switzerland |
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Peopled since prehistoric times, it was the “Helvetians”, a Celtic people, who gave their name to the Swiss and catapulted the country into History. Incorporated into the Roman Empire, Switzerland was gradually Christianised. The country was then to form part of the kingdom of Burgundy, then that of the Franks and of the Carolingian empire before becoming attached to the Holy Roman Empire in the 11th century. |
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Switzerland, french part 
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