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Simon returned to Switzerland due to ill Tamina Gorge (alternatively, there is a bus)
health and finally settled in Bad Ragaz. “He where after about one hour the Old Baths
purchased the Domaine Ragaz for 1.2 million Pfäfers is a place worth visiting. Switzerland's
Franc which was an incredible amount back earliest baroque spa house, where kings and
then”, said Astrid Hüni. “To fund this enter‐ princesses once bathed, now houses a mu‐
prise he borrowed money from the state of seum describing the history of the Benedic‐
Switzerland which imposed the condition that tine monastery of Pfäfers, founded in 740,
he had to build a guesthouse and swimming until its dissolution in 1838, as well as the
facilities for the public”. As a result, the Hotel Paracelsus monument. Only a few hundred
Quellenhof, the Kursaal, and the thermal feet further on is the entrance to the Tamina
pools were constructed which are all still in Gorge. The mystical natural formation, which
existence. When Simon died in 1900, people used to house dragons according to the leg‐
traveled from far to pay their last respects. ends, has been illuminated for several years
From Bad Ragaz it is easy to hike into the during the high season to celebrate the heal‐
ing power of the thermal water.

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