Vilters-Wangs: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

You can rent a holiday apartment in Vilters-Wangs.

In the surrounding area of Wangs are Tagweidlichopf, Bölli, Runenberg and Sichler. These four named landscape features are relevant to a trip in which the area around Vilters-Wangs plays an important role.

Culture

In the wider regional surroundings of Wangs are the Calculator Museum, Nägelehötta, the Chur Animal and Leisure Park and Ober Burg. The Calculator Museum is a specifically named cultural attraction for travellers with a corresponding interest.

Wangs shares with Vilters a documented late medieval history of border disputes concerning the Valeis ravine, in connection with which the Church of St. Medard was damaged and rebuilt in 1785 by Pfäfers Abbey.

Wangs is first documented in a deed dated 17 October 841.

A deed from 980 records the donation of the place of Berau with the chapel in Uuanga, with Uuanga identified as Wangs, to Einsiedeln Abbey.

Wangs’s historic religious heritage includes the long-standing influence of Pfäfers Abbey and pastoral care provided by the parish of Mels.

Geographical Location

The local communities of Vilters and Wangs retain their importance, particularly for agriculture, alpine farming and forestry.

Vilters-Wangs is described as a municipality consisting of two villages with largely intact village character and rich natural surroundings; the villages are located on Pizol.

Wangs is one of the two villages in the municipality of Vilters-Wangs in the canton of St. Gallen and in the Sarganserland electoral district.

For further destination selection, you can also compare Walenstadt, Quarten, Bad Ragaz, Mels, Flumserberg, Oberterzen, Flums and Quinten.

For the overarching travel overview: Sarganserland.