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Swiss Flag

Posted by James Turnbull, Wednesday, 29th November 2006

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Just to the West of the Swiss town of Morges we find the biggest Swiss flag in the world (probably). It’s about 80 metres square and has been painted on a roof.

Out faithful reader ChrisW (who suggested this sight) very kindly offered to head down and investigate what goes on at the giant flag building. So he went cycling 25km out of his way to snap this shot of the disappointingly dull “Friderici Transports” – a logistics company.

Many Thanks: ChrisW & HeatherW

4 Responses to 'Swiss Flag'

  1. ChrisW says:

    If you want to look at other interesting sights in Switzerland, then take a look at a thread that I’ve been making about the interesting places to look at in Switzerland via satellite on a web forum for English-speaking people living in Switzerland (link to thread)

  2. Jel says:

    The largest Swiss flag I am aware of is painted vertically on a rock wall
    (Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth) – all we can see is the view from above, it is the red-orange blur in the centre, and is upwards of 500m across.

  3. nh606 says:

    i recently flew from genoa to london and decided to take a few snaps from the plane window to try and find my flightpath on GE when i got back. This was one of the buildings that i took a picture of. To be honest though i never could be arsed to work out the flight path id taken so thx for working out a small part of it for me :)

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