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Neuchâtel Castle is a castle in the municipality of Neuchâtel of the Canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance . [ 1 ]
Map of town centre showing the evolution of the shoreline Before the 2021 merger of municipalities, Neuchâtel had an area, as of 2009 [update] , of 18.1 square kilometers (7.0 sq mi). Of this area, 1.84 km 2 (0.71 sq mi) or 10.2% was used for agricultural purposes, while 9.74 km 2 (3.76 sq mi) or 53.8% was forested.
Neuchâtel Castle, now seat of the cantonal government. Neuchâtel was one of the first cantons in Switzerland to grant women the right to vote (1959) and also to grant the vote to foreigners holding a residence permit and who have been domiciled in the canton for at least five years (2002), as well as to lower the voting age to 18.
This list contains all cultural property of national significance (class A) in the canton of Neuchâtel from the 2009 Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance.
Photograph of the Castle from September 2011. The castle is located close to the city of Neuchâtel and was built around 1620. [2] [3] In 1813, James-Alexandre de Pourtalès acquired the seigneury of Gorgier. [4] The castle was sold to Alphonse-Henri Berthoud-Coulon in 1879 and then acquired by Swiss-born American banker Antoine Borel in 1897 ...
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Map of the Helvetic Republic (1798) Map of Switzerland in 1815 New cantons were added only in the modern period, during 1803–1815; this mostly concerned former subject territories now recognized as full cantons (such as Vaud, Ticino and Aargau), and the full integration of territories that had been more loosely allied to the Confederacy (such as Geneva, Valais and Grisons).
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