Gruyères is a town in the district of Gruyère in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland.

Gruyères is above sea level, south-south-east of the district capital Bulle.

The central part of the area is the plains of Alluvial ( above sea level ) next to the alps, between Gruyères and Broc, from which the hill of Gruyères rises to above sea level.

A major tourist attraction is the medieval town of Gruyères with its castle, containing a regional museum and an arts museum.

Gruyère ( or ; ) is a hard yellow cheese, named after the town of Gruyères in Switzerland, and originated in the cantons of Fribourg, Vaud, Neuchâtel, Jura, and Berne.

In the Swiss town of Gruyères, a trackless train is the only vehicle allowed in the pedestrianised streets.

Part of the war booty captured at this battle is still kept at the castle of Gruyères in Switzerland which include three capes of the Order of the Golden Fleece which belonged to Charles the Bold including one with the emblem of his father, Philip the Good, which he had with him as he was celebrating the anniversary of the death of his father.

Gruyères had a plague house which was first mentioned in 1341.

The SPS improved their position in Gruyères rising to first, from third in 2007 ( with 21. 4 %) The CVP moved from first in 2007 ( with 27. 9 %) to second in 2011, the SVP moved from second in 2007 ( with 25. 0 %) to third and the FDP retained about the same popularity ( 15. 9 % in 2007 ).

The Former Chartreuse De La Part-Dieu, Gruyères Castle, Saint-Germain Castle, the town's fortifications, the Grange du Laviau, the House at Rue du Bourg 7, the House at Rue du Bourg 39 and the House dite de Chalamala at Rue du Bourg 47 are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance.

In 1998 Giger acquired the Château St. Germain in Gruyères, Switzerland, and it now houses the H. R. Giger Museum, a permanent repository of his work.

The two Giger Bars in his native Switzerland ( in Gruyères and Chur ), however, were built under Giger's close personal supervision and reflect his original concepts for them accurately.

* Museum H. R. Giger in Gruyères

Gruyères has an area,, of.

The two peaks with their saddle between them are a popular subject for photographs of Gruyères.

Southwest of Gruyères, the municipality comprises most of the catchment area of the brook Albeuve, which originates on the flanks of mount Moléson.

West of the Moléson, the densely wooded right valley side of the Trême and the terrace of La Part Dieu belong to Gruyères.

The municipality of Gruyères also comprises the two villages of Épagny ( above sea level ) to the north and Pringy ( above sea level ) to the west of the town hill.

Neighbour municipalities of Gruyères are Broc, Charmey, Bas-Intyamon, Haut-Intyamon, Semsales, Vaulruz, Vuadens, Bulle, La Tour-de-Trême and Le Pâquier.

The heraldic representation of the crane ( in French: “ grue ”) which inspired the name of the town of Gruyères.

Gruyères has a population () of.

Of the population in the municipality, 508 or about 32. 9 % were born in Gruyères and lived there in 2000.

Gruyères has always been a rural town.

, Gruyères had an unemployment rate of 2. 5 %.

A Roman settlement was probably located on a hill in Gruyères.

Gruyères stands in the midst of the Fribourg green pre-Alpine foothills.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

And that is the way I first saw her when my Uncle brought her into his antique store.

Why, in the first place, call himself a liberal if he is against laissez-faire and favors an authoritarian central government with womb-to-tomb controls over everybody??

Life is further characterized, in antithesis to Piepsam, as animal: the image of a dog, which appears at several places, is first given as the criterion of amiable, irrelevant interest aroused by life considered simply as a spectacle: a dog in a wagon is `` admirable '', `` a pleasure to contemplate '' ; ;

In the first instance, `` mimesis '' is here used to mean the recalling of experience in terms of vivid images rather than in terms of abstract ideas or conventional designations.

This is the primary function of the imagination operating in the absence of the original experiential stimulus by which the images were first appropriated.

The first half of The Charles Men, ending on the climax of the battle of Poltava in 1709, is more dramatically coherent than the second.

He is, first and foremost, a defender of public morals, a servant of society.

The first of two possible variations on this theme is symbolized by Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.

Noting such evidence is the first step ; ;

So it is that we relive his opening statement in the first television address with the dramatic immediacy of the present.

and it is surely clear that the first of these is the result of the way in which the individual's command of language interacts with the other two.

The first thing to do is get her some money by a temporary but definite adjustment pending a final disposition of the case.

When I take over Taliesin, the first thing I'll do is fire you ''.

If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.

At this point a working definition of idea is in order, although our first definition will have to be qualified somewhat as we proceed.

`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.

We saw it frequently afterward, but our suggestion for the very first encounter is near sunset.

Master Gorton, having foully abused high and low at Aquidneck is now bewitching and bemaddening poor Providence, both with his unclean and foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself have in Christ's name withstood him ), and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism: almost all suck in his poison, as at first they did at Aquidneck.