The Gurten is a mountain situated just to the south of Bern, the capital city of Switzerland.

It is 858 metres (2,815 ft) high, and the summit yields views of Bern, of the Jura mountains and of the Alps.

[2][3][4] Facilities on the Gurten include a hotel, restaurants, a 25-metre-high (82 ft) viewing tower and a children's playground.

[4][6] The castle site of Aegerten lies a good 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) to the south-east of the Gurten summit.

The remains consists of a roundish castle hill, which formerly carried a rectangular donjon, surrounded on three sides by a wall and rench.