San Gall is the capital of the corner with he himself name in northeastern Switzerland. One is in a valley between two hill chains. He takes to the nickname “city of the thousand steps” because he has many steps in the sides of both hills.
The city is the economic center of Eastern Switzerland. Its textile linen industry goes back to century XV.
But the city is not only well-known by its linen production but also by its famous embroiderings. In order to hold its position leader in the textile industry, arrogó a pioneering roll in the mechanization of the manufacture of textiles. He has surpassed several crises of the textile industry; their textile products and machineries for embroiderings enjoy great international reputation still today. Nevertheless, an overwhelming majority of the companies of the city comes from the sector services.
The most important industries that they are not of that sector are engineering, factories of paper and printers and the textile industry. The university of the city, founded on 1898 as “Commercial Academy” (Handelsakademie) specialized in social businesses, economy, right and sciences. It is considered at the present time like one of the more famous academies of economy of Europe.
Thousand years before the foundation of the university, San Gall already was a cultural and educational center thanks to the library and the school of the abbey. The library continues being a cultural treasure, as much by its medieval manuscripts (some date from century IX) like by the building of century XVIII. It has been added to the list of the world-wide patrimony of UNESCO.
San Gall is an axis of the railway network of Eastern Switzerland. He has a direct service to the airport of Zurich, to Zurich, Bern, Geneva and to the airport of Geneva. Also he has railway connection with the valley of the Rhin, the Lake of Constanza and central Switzerland. The small airport of San Gall-Rhin Viejo in the border with Austria mainly offers flights to Vienna, although also it serves the private traffic. In 1992 the city was awarded with the Wakker prize, a prize granted annually by the Society of Swiss Patrimonio (SPS) to municipalities that have harmonized their historical patrimony with the necessities of the modern development.

History
The city takes the name of an Irish monk, San Galo, whom a hermitage founded on this site at the beginning of century VII. With time that hermitage went transforming into one of the greater benedictine abbeys of Europe. During several centuries the abbot was the governor of the monastery and the city with his earth. But the city was able to get rid of the monástico regime in 1415. In the middle of century XV as much the abbey as the city became “regions associated” of the Helvetic Confederation. The corner of San Gall obtained the status of total member of the Confederation in 1803 after the Napoleonic occupation.