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Also known as Gletterens FR

Gletterens (; Arpitan: Glléterens) is a municipality in the district of Broye, in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland.

Key facts

Swiss town.subject_name
Gletterens
Swiss town.municipality_type
municipality
Swiss town.image_photo
Picswiss FR-16-10.jpg
Swiss town.image_caption
Reconstruction of a prehistoric house in Gletterens
Swiss town.imagepath_coa
CHE Gletterens COA.svg
Swiss town.canton
Fribourg
Swiss town.iso code region
CH-FR
Swiss town.district
Broye
Swiss town.postal_code
1544
Swiss town.municipality_code
2022
Swiss town.area
3.02
Swiss town.elevation
486
Swiss town.website
gletterens.ch
Swiss town.mayor_title
Syndic
Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
Boudry (NE), Chevroux (VD), Cortaillod (NE), Delley-Portalban, Grandcour (VD), Vallon

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Encyclopedic overview

11 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Geography
  • Coat of arms
  • Demographics
  • World Heritage Site
  • Politics
  • Economy
  • Religion
  • Education
  • References
  • External links

Gletterens (; Arpitan: Glléterens) is a municipality in the district of Broye, in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland.

It is home to the Les Grèves prehistoric pile-dwelling (or stilt house) settlements that are part of the Prehistoric Pile dwellings around the Alps UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gletterens” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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