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	Canton of St. Gallen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Canton of St. Gallen (German: Kanton St. Gallen) is a canton of Switzerland.
		The canton of St. Gallen was part of the canton Säntis during the Helvetic Republic.
		The lands of the canton St. Gallen represent acquisitions of the abbey of St. Gallen over centuries.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canton_of_St._Gallen (465 words)

	St. Gallen Switzerland
		Gallen, an abbey, was founded in 720 on the spot where Gallus (companion of the Irish monk Columba) died, was to establish the fortunes of Sankt Gallen.
		Gallen features one of the most picturesque old town quarters in Switzerland; Many of the houses and buildings being from the 16th and 18th century, sometimes with painted facades, often adorned with wrought-iron signs and carved and painted wooden oriel windows.
		The town spreads over the nearby hills, which are scattered with huge block of buildings such as the Sankt Gallen Graduate School of Economics, Business and Public Administration (Hochschule für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften), decorated by many artists from the 1960.
	www.magicswitzerland.com /stgallen.htm (353 words)

	_ St Gallen Switzerland guide
		St Gallen’s train station is 200m southwest of the Old Town, with the tourist office opposite at Bahnhofplatz 1a, on the far side of the square as you emerge (Mon–Fri 9am–noon & 1–6pm, Sat 9am–noon; 071/227 37 37, www.stgallen-i.ch).
		The main urban centre of eastern Switzerland, ST GALLEN is a relaxed and conservative provincial city set amidst rolling countryside between the Appenzell hills to the south and the Bodensee to the north.
		St Gallen is a stop on the summer rock-festival circuit, with the Open Air festival taking place over the last weekend in June and pulling in a varied range of musical attractions – 1999 attendees included Van Morrison, Blondie, the Asian Dub Foundation and Metallica.
	switzerland.isyours.com /e/guide/northeast/stgallen.html (385 words)

	www.k9000.ch:::Kunsthalle St. Gallen
		www.k9000.ch / Gianni Jetzer, Jean-Noël Jetzer, Centrik Isler, Kunsthalle, St. Gallen, Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Switzerland, Zurich, Zürich, Jonathan Horowitz, gelatin, Gelatin
	www.k9000.ch /index_follow_e.html (21 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - St Gallen
		St Gallen (in French, Saint-Gall; in English, St Gallen), town in north-eastern Switzerland, the capital of St Gallen Canton.
		Zwingli was born on January 1, 1484, in Wildhaus, St Gallen.
		St Gallen Canton (also Saint Gall or Sankt Gallen), canton in north-eastern Switzerland.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /St_Gallen.html (110 words)

	_ St Gallen history Switzerland guide
		By the end of the Middle Ages, St Gallen was the only Swiss town to have trade representatives resident in foreign cities, and was linked by stagecoach to centres of textile processing in Nuremberg and Lyon.
		By the thirteenth century, St Gallen had become an important market town and it’s reputation as a centre of learning was being ousted by its reputation as a producer and exporter of exceptionally high-quality linen.
		Early in the nineteenth century, St Gallen hand-embroidered cotton was being exported to the young United States.
	switzerland.isyours.com /e/guide/northeast/stgallenhistory.html (621 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Abbey of St. Gall
		In Switzerland, Canton St. Gall, 30 miles southeast of Constance; for many centuries one of the chief Benedictine abbeys in Europe; founded about 613, and named after Gallus, an Irishman, the disciple and companion of St. Columbanus in his exile from Luxeuil.
		The town of St. Gall has a population of over 30,000 and is one of the principal manufacturing centres in Switzerland, muslin and cotton being its chief industries.
		In 1602, when the Swiss congregation of the Order of St. Benedict was formed, the Abbey of St. Gall took precedence as the first house of the congregation, and many of its abbots subsequently held the office of president.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06347a.htm (1221 words)

	St. Gallen Travel and Tourist Information - Switzerland for Visitors
		Gallen is the most important city of Eastern Switzerland, with a trading area that extends from Lake Constance (Bodensee) on the north to the Säntis Alps region.
		The library is also St. Gallen's premiere tourist attraction, and every year thousands of visitors don felt slippers and shuffle around the 18th Century library with its inlaid flooring, Rococo decorations, and display cases filled with ancient books.
		Gallen's other major tourist draws are the Cathedral (next door to the abbey) and the adjacent Old Town, where many of the well-preserved buildings feature the city's distinctive carved oriel windows.
	europeforvisitors.com /switzaustria/articles/st_gallen.htm (571 words)

	St Gallen Hotels. St Gallen Accommodation Hotel in Switzerland Discounts
		St Gallen in the east of Switzerland is only 80 kilometers from the economic and cultural heart of the country Zurich.
		The newly renovated Ekkehard Swiss Q Hotel is located in the heart of St Gallen, opposite the Main Park and five minutes on foot from the museums, theatre and old town.
		Panorama Hotel Santisblick St Gallen is an attractive three star hotel, surrounded by greenery, overlooking St Gallen with a cozy atmosphere.
	www.holidaycityeurope.com /stgallenhotels (292 words)

	Urs Gasser - Berkman Center for Internet & Society
		Before joining the St. Gallen faculty, Urs spent three years as a research and teaching fellow at the Berkman Center, where he was the lead fellow on the Digital Media Project, a multi-disciplinary research project aimed at exploring the transition from offline/analog to online/digital media.
		Urs Gasser is a Berkman faculty fellow and an associate professor of law at the University of St. Gallen, where he serves as the director of the Research Center for Information Law.
		He obtained his J.D. (lic.iur.) and S.J.D. (Dr.iur.) from University of St. Gallen with summa cum laude and received for his doctoral thesis "Causality of and Responsibility for Information as a Legal Problem" the "Walther Hug-Preis St. Gallen" of his alma mater.
	cyber.law.harvard.edu /people/ugasser.html (587 words)

	ESPN.com Soccernet Europe: News - St Gallen suffer 11-3 humiliation
		St Gallen, who dumped England's Chelsea out of the UEFA Cup two seasons ago, opened the scoring but were buried under a deluge of goals by FC Wil, who act as a feeder club for their more illustrious neighbours.
		St Gallen, lying second-bottom of the standings, took the lead after just three minutes through Tranquillo Barnetta, but then conceded five goals in 21 minutes.
		ZURICH, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Struggling St Gallen suffered a humiliating 11-3 defeat by local rivals FC Wil in the Swiss league championship on Sunday.
	www.soccernet.com /europe/news/2002/1103/20021103stgallen.html (243 words)

	St. Gallen tourism links
		St. Gallen plays host to agricultural fairs, trade shows, conventions, and recreational shows throughout the year.
		St. Gallen's Textile Museum was founded in 1886.
		The Natural History Museum has general displays plus exhibits about St. Gallen (including a diorama of the area as it existed 20 million years ago).
	europeforvisitors.com /switzaustria/articles/st_gallen2.htm (293 words)

	St Gallen (Ashfield) Ltd - Printer & Plotter Repairs, Sales, and Servicing
		St Gallen are specialists in Laser Printers and offer a complete range of products and services to our customers, of which include:
		St Gallen (Ashfield) Ltd. have been building a company based on innovation and integrity.
		All cartridges are fully remanufactured and tested in our own workshop to the ISO 9002 quality standard and are further covered by the St Gallen No Quibble Guarantee.
	www.st-gallen.ic24.net (433 words)

	St Gallen Chamber Ensemble
		The St Gallen Chamber Ensemble is a string ensemble formed in 1980, whose members are a mixture of professional musicians, music students and excellent amateurs.
		In its concerts The St Gallen Chamber Ensemble presents works from all periods and music of the 20th century has a regular place in its programmes.
		Because of their high standard and adventurous programmes the concerts of the St Gallen Chamber Ensemble attract much attention.
	www.guildmusic.com /artists/gallen.htm (151 words)

	St Gall (Sankt Gallen) - a Gardens Guide review
		It survived, as a copy, in a Life of St Martin in the St Gall library and was drawn, by Abbot Haito or Reichenau (763-836) for Abbot Gozbert of St Gall.
		Haito had been an ambassador to Constantinople and Walafried Strabo, author of the most famous garden poem of the Early Middle Ages, was one of his pupils.
		At the age of 56 he resigned as abbot, to live in in simple conformity with St Benedict's rule.
	www.gardenvisit.com /ge/stgall.htm (374 words)

	The St. Gallen Management Concept
		Michael Flaschka is a PhD candidate at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
		At the beginning of the 1970's, the St. Gallen Management Model was developed by Professors Hans Ulrich and Walter Krieg.
		The purpose of the new St. Gallen Mangement Concept is to make a multi-dimensional classification of management's decision problems.
	www.gwu.edu /~asc/lecturefiles/flaschka.html (208 words)

	St. Gallen : Attractions Frommers.com
		The Protestant Reformation was victorious in St. Gallen, but the Benedictine monastery at Klosterhof remained virtually unaffected.
		Serious climbers tend to dismiss the region around St. Gallen as being too flat, and they will consequently direct you to loftier altitudes near Appenzell.
		From the center of St. Gallen, take bus no. 5 to the satellite hamlet of Reithüsli.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/stgallen/2565010029.html (482 words)

	Studentenschaft der Universität St. Gallen
		With the increase of Chinese students and scholars at the University of St. Gallen (HSG), Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA) was established in February 2004.
	www.stud.unisg.ch /contentdocs/cssa.html?page=contentdocs/cssa.html (128 words)

	University of St. Gallen
		With respect to the expansion of the Executive MBA offerings at the University of St. Gallen, starting in 2006 the addition of a part time, special program in media and communication will be considered.
		In the course of the reorganization of the post-graduate study programs of the University of St. Gallen, a new English-language, full time MBA will be launched, which will include the subject matter of the former EMBA.
		The Future of the Executive MBA in Media and Communication at the University of St. Gallen (HSG)
	www.media-mba.unisg.ch (244 words)

	The Monastery of St. Gall
		the Swiss town of St. Gallen and several pictures of its abbey
		It remained an abbey until the early 1800s, when portions of it were sectioned off to house the bishop and the rest of the diocese.
		In the year 937 A.D., when threatened by the Huns, much St. Gall's library's manuscripts were moved to the neighboring abbey of Riechneau.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /htdocs/Blair/Courses/MUSL242/stgall~1.htm (298 words)

	St.Gallen, Switzerland
		The Museum in St. Gallen didn't have any brochures but this picture is from a pack of postcards about this tablecloth I purchased there.
		I visited St. Gallen in 1997 and below are some of the photo's I took at the Lace Museum.
		This stunning wedding dress is all done in needlelace if I remember correctly.
	lace.lacefairy.com /International/StGallen.html (142 words)

	St Gallen Hotels - St Gallen Reservations - Budget-Luxury
		If you did not find the St Gallen hotels you were looking for or are looking for lodgings in other Switzerland cities you may want to check out the accommodations for other cities in our Switzerland cities list.
		You may also view St Gallen lodgings and hotels alphabetically or St Gallen hotels and rooms sorted by price.
		St Gallen hotels sorted by price: Makes it easy to find the best value in St Gallen lodgings.
	www.exploitz.com /St-Gallen-hotels-ch.php (257 words)

	St. Gallen commune (St. Gallen canton, Switzerland)
		The flag image sent today is taken from "St. Galler Wappenbuch" edited by the Department of the Interior of the Canton of St. Gallen (1991).
		People having the book of Louis Mühlemann, Arms and Flags of Switzerland will certainly notice a difference between the version of the arms of St. Gallen commune available in this book and my version.
		Argent a Bear rampant Sable langued and in his virility Gules and armed and gorged Or.
	www.fotw.net /Flags/ch-sg045.html (191 words)

	Car Rental St. Gallen with Auto Europe
		Arrange a car rental in St. Gallen and drop it in Zurich, or in one of many other Swiss cities.
		Use your rental car in St. Gallen to take in the art and culture of the city.
		Auto Europe offers several pick up locations and a large fleet selection, so finding a car rental in St. Gallen is both easy and economical.
	www.autoeurope.com /car-rental/St.-Gallen-rental-guide.cfm (455 words)

	Anglican Church of St. Gallen
		On every 2nd Sunday of the month (except January and July), the Anglican Church Community of St. Gallen holds a service of Holy Communion in English at 5 p.m.
		77, which is lent to us by our good friends of the Christkatholische Kirche, St. Gallen.
		This church looks down over the town centre, and can be reached on foot up the long stairways behind the station - or of course you can park your car along the road outside.Everyone of whatever denomination or creed who would like to attend an English-speaking service will be made very welcome.
	www.standrewszurich.ch /stgallen.htm (194 words)

	eBay - st gallen, Europe, Postcards Paper items on eBay.com
		Switzerland 1930 p/card of st. gallen sent to germany
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	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=st+gallen&newu=1&krd=1 (372 words)

	St. Gallen Hotels: Cheap hotels in St. Gallen, Switzerland
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	www.lastminute.com /site/find/World/Europe/Switzerland/St.-Gallen/St.-Gallen--Hotel.html (133 words)

	HEIM, ALBERT VON ST GAL... - Online Information article about HEIM, ALBERT VON ST GAL...
		ALBERT VON ST GALLEN (1849-), Swiss geologist, was See also:
		End of Article: HEIM, ALBERT VON ST GALLEN (1849-)
		Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /HEG_HIG/HEIM_ALBERT_VON_ST_GALLEN_1849_.html (397 words)

	RecipeSource: St. Gallen Monastery Tart (St. Gallen)
		The ruling of the monastery had a great influence over the lives of the surrounding community, which did not gain its independence until the 14th Century.
		RecipeSource : Ethnic Recipes : European Recipes : Swiss Recipes : St.
	www.recipesource.com /ethnic/europe/swiss/st-gallen-tart1.html (214 words)

	St. Gallen Symposium
		The St. Gallen Symposium, held annually at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, is the world’s leading neutral platform for critical and constructive debate on issues of global concern.
		It seeks to promote dialogue crossing the boundaries of cultures, generations and interest groups.
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	www.stgallen-symposium.org /stgallen-symposium (95 words)

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