Swiss military bunkers

Swiss military bunkers

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Publish Date:
13 August, 2024
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Military Bunkers
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With the threat of foreign invasion a thing of the past, thousands of military bunkers and fortresses in Switzerland have been put to commercial use, from hotels to data centres, museums to cheese factories. The Swiss army has sold most of these decommissioned strongholds, but about a thousand unused bunkers remain, many still disguised as houses and barns.

Above, A machine-gun bunker, part of a former Swiss artillery fortress called Fuchsegg, is camouflaged as a stable beside the Furka mountain-pass road near the village of Realp. Fuchsegg fortress, located in the central Swiss Alps, was built in 1943.