Gottardo 2016 Public Event - Celebrate the opening of the Gotthard Base Tunnel

June 4 - 5, 2016

GOTTARDO Festanlass Rynächt
Rynächt UR, Uri

Serge K. Keller ❦ @citizenk

On 4 and 5 June, we will be celebrating the opening of the Gotthard Base Tunnel – the world’s longest railway tunnel measuring 57 kilometres – at four different festival sites around the tunnel entrances. The celebrations will be held at Erstfeld and Rynächt in the north and Pollegio and Biasca in the south. Admission to the festival sites is free, but you will need a ticket for the journeys through the tunnel on the Gottardo shuttle trains.

http://www.gottardo2016.ch/en/public-event

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Serge K. Keller ❦ @citizenk · Invalid date

In Erstfeld and (less so) Biasca there is some beautiful rolling train stock that you can visit, and even get into. ALl the SBB Historic classics are there: the”Churchill” Red Arrow, along with another Red Arrow, two Crocodile locs, an Elephant steam loc, and so on.

In Pollegio and Rynächt, there are some nice things to see (and buy) at the artisanal markets.

But brig your own pic-nic: food and beverages prices are a rip-off bordering on highway robbery, alas…

Attending

Serge K. Keller ❦ @citizenk