Further information
28.02.2008
A calendar with current dates of stamp fairs and stock exchanges was placed on-line.
Small portrait of the island Guernsey
Surface: approx. 80 km2
Inhabitant: approx. 50.000
Capital: St. Peter Port
International Kfz characteristic: GBG
Differently than in jersey there are no multistoried buildings on Guernsey. The island retained your own character to a large extent. The typical Guernsey house with the chimney at the narrow front and the front from granite blocks dominate the landscape, just as the glasshouses, which one finds everywhere. It contributes severity building regulations to the fact that new buildings do not destroy this impression.
Administration
The Lieutnant Gouvernor of Guernsey is used by the queen, he has presentable tasks and is responsible for the military protection of the Bailiwicks; the Bailiwick is administered by the "States of Guernsey" under the presidency of the Bailiffs; Committees of the States ("States Committee") replace Ministries, as we know you. In the "Postal Committee" about all decisions are made to the postal service and then the States for adoption of resolutions submitted. Resolutions of the States are to be submitted to the English Privy Council for ratification.
Industry and economics
Tourism, international reloading point for money, mail box firms, cattle breeding ("Guernsey cattle"), glasshouse industry (above all: Tomatoes, flowers, strawberries), for some years attain also computer companies meaning, which develop above all software.
Objects of interest
Guernsey offers a multiplicity of different objects of interest to the tourist:- The old monuments of the stone age, among other things. Les Dehus or Les Fouaillages (oldest neolithic place of Western Europe);
- numerous Forts along the coast, like away Doyle, away Grey, away Le Marchant
- the Martello towers along the coast
- German attachment plants and shelters from the 2. World war
- Castle Cornet with its museum areas and the midday cannon
- The Little Chapel in Les Vauxbelets, the "smallest church of the world"
- the Victor Hugo house
- the museum into Candie Gardens
- and much more