Right here, the hero won the apple-shooting challenge, and the beautiful monument, which stands prominently in the Rathausplatz, the town hall square, depicts him accompanied by his little son and his inseparable crossbow.
Near the monument, a tower house decorated with frescoes dating back to the 16th century stands out, and at no.18 Ghottardstrasse you can visit the Cantonal Historical Museum. The village that would instead have given birth to William Tell is located a couple of kilometers from Altdorf and is called Burglen, a medieval village clinging to the first mountain foothills (in winter it is a ski area), where you can find the 18th-century monument to William, a chapel from 1582 covered with 18th-century frescoes, and the Tell Museum, housed in one of the four 13th-century towers that the village still preserves. In the spaces on the different floors, you can admire relics, statues, old prints, and attend the screening of a feature film, which tells not only the hero’s story but also how his figure has been interpreted and revisited over the centuries.
