Sierre is the capital of the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It has a population of 16,332.
It is the last official French speaking city in Valais before the French-German language border of the canton located at the forest of Finges, few kilometres after the town. A German-speaking minority lives in Sierre, as it counts around 8% of the population.
Sierre is host to a local wine museum (Musée Valaisan de la Vigne et du Vin) and of a museum dedicated to the memory of Rainer Maria Rilke who lived there until his death and is buried in the nearby town of Raron.
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