Grindelwald, Tasmania

Grindelwald is a place on the Tamar River 19 km northeast of the city of Launceston in Tasmania in Australia. The tourist resort with 739 inhabitants ( 2006) offers a golf course, hotels and souvenir shops that also offer Swiss specialties.

The settlement was built by the Dutch big business Roelf Vos beginning of the 1980s, was built in the style of a typical Swiss village, whose houses with their overhanging roofs, attics in the acute-angled roofs, flower boxes, which compared with the Australian lightweight solid -looking exterior and with some other typical European construction features stand out clearly from the usual homes. If you want to build a house in Grindelwald, must adhere absolutely to the appropriate architectural rules.