Biel / Bienne

Biel/Bienne (official bilingual wording; German: [biːl], French: [bjɛn]; Italian: Bienna; Romansh: Bienna; Latin: Belna) is a town and a municipality in the Biel/Bienne administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.Biel/Bienne lies on the language boundary between the French-speaking and German-speaking parts of Switzerland, and is bilingual throughout.

La Neuveville (German: Neuenstadt) is a municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland, located in the French-speaking Bernese Jura (Jura Bernois).

Biel/Bienne District is an administrative district in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland. It is located along both shores of the northeastern half of Lake Biel and is part of the Seeland administrative region, and its capital is Biel/Bienne. It contains 19 municipalities with an area of 97.63 km2 (37.70 sq mi) and a population (as of December 2008) of 90,536, over half of which lives in the district's capital.

Biel/Bienne railway station (German: Bahnhof Biel; French: Gare de Bienne) serves the bilingual municipality of Biel/Bienne, in the canton of Bern, Switzerland.It is a major railway junction on the Swiss railways network. It lies on one of the two most busy major railway lines between the northeastern (St.

Biel/Bienne District was a district (Amtsbezirk) in the canton of Bern in Switzerland with its seat Biel/Bienne. It was bi-lingual (41% French and 59% German) and included two municipalities in an area of 25 km²:It is now part of the administrative district of Biel/Bienne.

Ligerz (French: Gléresse) is a municipality in the Biel/Bienne administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

Erlach Abbey (Abbaye Saint-Jean de Cerlier) also known as St. Johannsen Abbey (Kloster Erlach, otherwise Abtei St. Johannsen), was a Benedictine monastery in Gals, Canton of Bern, Switzerland.It was founded between 1093 and 1103 by Kuno, Count of Fenis and Bishop of Lausanne, on land that was then an island in the river Thielle.

Le Landeron is a municipality in the district of Neuchâtel in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel.

Nidau is a municipality in the Biel/Bienne administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

Madretsch (formerly Mardrez) is a former commune in the Swiss canton of Bern. It is a suburb of Biel/Bienne, which it joined in 1920. Previously a rural suburb with some remaining farms and green areas, it has now become fully integrated as a city suburb, without any real local character any more.Local schools are taught in both German and French.