Gais
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Gais () is a village and a municipality in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden in Switzerland. The area of Gais is .
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Gais
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Gais AR Dorfplatz Panorama.jpg
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Gais COA.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Appenzell Ausserrhoden
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-AR
- Swiss town.district
- n.a.
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 9056
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 3022
- Swiss town.area
- 21.21
- Swiss town.elevation
- 915
- Swiss town.elevation_description
- Church
- Swiss town.population
- 3089
- Swiss town.populationof
- December 2014
- Swiss town.popofyear
- 2014
- Swiss town.website
- www.gais.ch
- Swiss town.mayor
- Ernst Koller
- Swiss town.mayor_asof
- 2016
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Encyclopedic overview
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Gais () is a village and a municipality in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden in Switzerland. The area of Gais is .
In 1977, the village Gais received the Wakker Prize for the development and preservation of its architectural heritage. The village square, the Protestant church of 1782, the former spa hotel Neuer Ochsen of 1796 and the Krone inn of 1781 are listed as heritage sites of national significance.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gais” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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