Skip to main content

Ascension

Closing

Updated on 5 May 2026

The Swiss National Library will be closed on Thursday 14 May 2026 (Ascension).

Old views of the Gotthard

Devil’s Bridge

The Devil’s Bridge – built, according to legend, by the Devil himself – is the first means of crossing the previously impassable Schöllenen Gorge.

View from the Urnerloch Tunnel towards Andermatt, at the foot of the Gotthard

The Urnerloch Tunnel, constructed between 1707 and 1708, allows travellers to avoid another dangerous stretch of the route.

The village of Hospental on the Gotthard Pass route

The famous Hospental Castle presides over the confluence of the Furkareuss and Gotthardreuss rivers.

The new and old Devil’s Bridge in the canton of Uri

The new Gotthard road was built in the 1830s, and with it came a new Devil’s Bridge.