Interlaken

Interlaken ('between the lakes'), a village of Switzerland, in the beautiful valley of the Aar, between Lakes Thun and Brienz. Along the Walnut Avenue or Highway between the lakes there is an almost uninterrupted line of hotels and pensions. The village is visited annually by 20,000 to 30,000 tourists, who make it their starting-point for reaching many of the most wonderful sights that the country affords, especially the Bernese Oberland, where are the Staubbach, Lauterbrunnen, the Grindelwald glaciers, &c. Pop. 2121. The nucleus of the village is a former Augustinian monastery (founded 1130).