Although this stone bridge, known as Saut de Brot, looks right out of a fairy tale, it serves a very practical purpose. It connects walking trails on each side of the Areuse Gorge, offering safe passage to hikers exploring the lush Brot-Dessous area in western Switzerland, a predominantly French-speaking region of this multilingual country. It"s not known when the bridge was built exactly, though it"s thought to be a recent construction. But if that"s true, how do we not know who built it? All this mystery leads us to suspect it"s the work of helpful gnomes and fairies living deep in the Swiss woods. The end.
Once upon a time there was a bridge…
Today in History
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Indigenous Peoples Day
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Ancient art in the Amazon
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A yearly sign that spring has sprung
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Here we mark the price of freedom
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Galeries Lafayette, Paris
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Winter at Valley Forge
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Fall for Chile
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Nazar amulets, Goreme National Park, Cappadocia, Turkey
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Weaverbird nests at Kenya’s Samburu National Reserve
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Australian baobab tree, Kimberley region, Western Australia
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Let s face it: It s World Emoji Day
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Park of the Monsters, Bomarzo, Italy
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The call of the wild in Alaska
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Polar bear capital of the world
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Defying gravity on a swing ride
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White Sands National Park turns 90
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Sequential images of a total solar eclipse
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An impactful day
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Nakupenda Beach Nature Reserve, Zanzibar, Tanzania
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Gamboa Crater, Mars
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A unique perspective from Italy’s ‘golden sands’
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Breckenridge, Colorado
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A throng of ice and spires
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Ludwig’s palace
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Desert rose of Qatar
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The Easter Bunny’s story
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National Park Service Founders Day
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World Migratory Bird Day
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Let’s have a ball