Thun is a town and a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located where the Aare flows out of Lake Thun (Thunersee), 30 kilometres (19 miles) southeast of Bern.
As of December 2018 the municipality has almost about 45,000 inhabitants and around 80,000 live in the agglomeration.
Besides tourism, machine and precision instrument engineering, the largest garrison in the country, the food industry, armaments and publishing are of economic importance to Thun.
The official language of Thun is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect.
Main sights include:
- Thun Castle (twelfth century) with a history museum. This has several sections about medieval armour and weaponry and rural life.
- The Rathaus (town hall), erected in the 16th century
- Lake Thun and the view of the Bernese Alps, including the Niederhorn, Niesen, Stockhorn and Eiger, Mönch, and Jungfrau peaks.
- The Wocher Panorama, the oldest remaining panorama drawing in the world.
- The Kunstmuseum Thun
- Schloss Schadau
- Panzermuseum Thun, with several World War II armored vehicles and weapons
- The Steamship Blüemlisalp
- The former Hotel Bellevue-Du Parc,
- The former Hotel Thunerhof
- The zum Rosengarten House
- The Landsitz Bellerive
- The armory (Mannschaftskaserne)
- The former hospital at Platzschulhaus
- The Rathaus (Town council house)
- The Reformed Church of Scherzligen
- The Sammlung Historisches Armeematerial (Collection of Historical Military Equipment)
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