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St. Gallen is a city south of Lake Constance (Bodensee), in northeastern Switzerland. It’s home to the Abbey of St. Gall, a monastery of various architectural styles including baroque. The Abbey library of St Gall (German: Stiftsbibliothek) is a significant medieval monastic library located in St. Gallen, Switzerland. It’s a must visit. I don’t know why but the atomasphere of Abbey Library is somewhat being in Harry potter world. There are cheese and chocolate factories or shops to enjoy as well. The train trip to Sargans whereas a famous lake of Lake Constance was free by staying at St.Gallen. It’s walking distance to look around the famous touring spots from St.Gallen station that it’s nice stop on your way to St. Moritz, Switzerland or Konstanz, Germany.

An Enjoyable Route To Cover

This is a route to enjoy historical & city scape in St.Gallen & a nature in Sargans, a one stop from St. Gallen station. I reached at St. Gallen around 10pm to get rest & look around here in the morning.

10pm atmosphere near St.Gallen station. It was a beautiful moon light scape in silent.

6am atmosphere near the station.

It’s 4min. walk from St. Gallen station to Abbey library.

Heading to Abbey library. I had to take a photo of a cool looking bike station here near the station.

There are a few rounded road to go through.

Entering historical scape. There are cafe and restaurants here. It’s fun to walk around since there is no traffic lights here.

The street view is so cozy. I enjoyed the pastel colorful shops.

There is a square near by Abbey library. I didn’t take photos of an entrance of building to go Abbey library, but it seems contradicted to some visitors to a ticket office and a abbey library, cuz people asked me where is Abbey library or a ticket office. The ticket office and Abbey library is at 2nd fl. of the building. I guess it’s small closed door there that visitors get confused whether they can enter its building or not.

The entrance of Abbey library welcome you to enter. It’s so exciting. There is a necessity to change shoes to slippers to enter. A man tells you to keep silence because I may wake up Egyptian mummy. I really love the way he warned me instead of saying “Be Quiet”.

Abbey library

The way to get to XXXXX.

There is another square to get to XXXX.

A statue of gatekeepers.

XXXXXXX rings the bell in each hour. The architect design is so beautiful. I love the way placing pastel clocks & sculptures in between.

There is another square to spend the time.

There is a chocolate shop & cafe to enjoy at square.

There was a musician playing a classic music that it feels so great with grabbing a cup of coffee to hang around under a clear sky here.

There is a red carpet-ish street that you can enjoy walking through. Not much here, but artistic?

It’s about an hour way to get to Lake Constance by taking a train from St.Gallen station to Sargans station. It’s free to take the train to go here if you stay at hotel. A hotel you stay provides you a QR code ticket to go around cities. Trains, Buses are available to use a provided QR code ticket.

The inside look of its train is like this.

The seat if like this for 2nd cl. You can use a free ticket to ride in 2nd cl., which you can get by staying at hotel. There is an upgrade option to sit in 1st cl. The ticket will be checked on the train.

Sargans station.

Statue in front of Sargans station. It’s interesting to look at from different angle. I don’t know what it is, but it seems sundial for me.

A chilling place to Lake Constance. Lake Constance (known as Bodensee in German) is a 63km-long central European lake that borders Germany, Austria and Switzerland. You can view the shape of lake to see each country here. It seems like fountain shows are famous to look at from a variety of restaurants in the night in summer time. It was so calm to enjoy silence of nature beauty in Sargans, Switzerland & it was so active area to enjoy picnic in Konstanz, Germany.

The view that I enjoy. The train runs along the lake and river from St. Gallen, Switzerland to Hechingen, Germany.