Station 6 – The Vanished “Swallow’s Nest”

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Station 6 - The Vanished "Swallow's Nest"

Above the first eastern round pillar high up on the northern wall of the nave was located, until the Reformation, one of the French Church’s two organs, a so-called swallow’s nest organ.

The Swallow's Nest Organ of Valère (Sion, Switzerland)

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Station 6 – The Vanished “Swallow’s Nest”

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