Fribourg (che)

Fribourg

Fribourg ranks 1,664th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Opava, Pori, and Qom. Memorable people born in Fribourg include Jean Tinguely, Jo Siffert, and Joseph Deiss. Memorable people who died in Fribourg include Peter Canisius, Wilhelm Schmidt, and Józef Maria Bocheński. Fribourg has been the birth place of many politicians and soccer players and the death place of many physicians and anthropologists. Fribourg is located in Switzerland.

Fribourg is the capital of the Swiss canton of Fribourg and district of La Sarine. Located on both sides of the river Saane/Sarine, on the Swiss Plateau, it is a major economic, administrative and educational centre on the cultural border between German-speaking and French-speaking Switzerland. Its Old City, one of the best-maintained in Switzerland, sits on a small rocky hill above the valley of the Sarine. In 2018, it had a population of 38,365. Read more on Wikipedia