Spiez is a town and municipality on the shore of Lake Thun in the Bernese Oberland region of the Swiss canton of Bern. It is part of the Frutigen-Niedersimmental administrative district. Besides the town of Spiez, the municipality also includes the settlements of Einigen, Hondrich, Faulensee, and Spiezwiler.
Spiez
Spiez castle and church
Spiez from the air, with the lake in the background and the Kander bottom left
Spiez town in 2006
The Bernese Oberland, sometimes also known as the Bernese Highlands, is the highest and southernmost part of the canton of Bern. It is one of the canton's five administrative regions. It constitutes the Alpine region of the canton and the northern side of the Bernese Alps, including many of its highest peaks, among which the Finsteraarhorn, the highest in both range and canton.
Thun Castle in front of the Blüemlisalp
A Bernese bailiff on a visit to Grindelwald in 1760
A 1830 view of Thun
The Haslital region with the Wetterhorn in background