Top of Europe explained

The Top of Europe is a high-altitude building located in the Swiss canton of Valais. It overlooks the eternal snows of the Aletsch Glacier from the south side of the Jungfraujoch, at a height of 3454abbr=offNaNabbr=off above sea level. It is connected to the underground Jungfraujoch railway station by a tunnel and to the Sphinx Observatory by an elevator. It has five levels.[1]

The Top of Europe includes several restaurants and a permanent exhibition about the Jungfrau Railway and the Alps. It also includes Europe's highest-altitude post office.[2] An older building includes a research station.[3]

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  1. Jay Brunhouse, Traveling Europe's Trains, Pelican Publishing Company Incorporated, 2001 (p. 262)
  2. https://archive.today/20130713164556/http://www.jungfrau.ch/nc/en/tourism/news-events/news/details/archive/2012/03/article/sondermarke-zum-jubilaeum-der-jungfraubahn-1030/ Commemorative postage stamp for the Jungfrau Railway Centenary
  3. http://www.ifjungo.ch/jungfraujoch/ Jungfraujoch