Gruyères
municipality in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland
Gruyères (French pronunciation: [ɡʁɥijɛʁ] ; Arpitan: Gruviéres [ɡʁəˈviʁ] ; Fribourgeois: Grevire; German: Greyerz [ˈɡraɪərts]) is a town in the district of Gruyère in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland.
The medieval town is an important tourist location in the upper valley of the Saane/Sarine River and gives its name to Gruyère cheese. The medieval town is located at the top of an 82-metre-high (269 ft) hill overlooking the Saane Valley and the Lake of Gruyère.
Geography
Gruyères has an area, as of 2009, of 28.4 km2 (11.0 mi2), of which 11.5 km2 (4.4 mi2) (40.5%) are used for agricultural purposes, while 14.18 km2 (5.47 mi2) or 50.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.55 km2 (0.60 mi2) or 5.5% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.24 km2 (0.093 mi2) or 0.8% is either rivers or lakes and 0.92 km2 (0.36 mi2) or 3.2% is unproductive land.
Of the built-up area, housing and buildings made up 2.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.1%. Of the forested land, 46.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 4.6% is used for growing crops, 12.9% is pastures, and 22.9% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
Gruyères is 810 m (2,660 ft) above sea level, 4.5 km (2.8 mi) south-south-east of the district capital Bulle.
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