500px provided description: a 360? panorama shot from the Simplonpass in Valais - Switzerland. During the Second World War, officers of the 11th Alpine Brigade of the Swiss Army proposed the construction of the stone monument depicting an eagle, the symbol of the brigade. The Bernese architect Erwin Friedrich Baumann designed the monument based on the use of granite blocks from the old fortification of Gondo to build a statue about nine meters high. The monument was inaugurated in September 1944. [#sky ,#switzerland ,#mountains ,#winter ,#blue ,#night ,#moon ,#guard ,#stars ,#snow ,#dark ,#panorama ,#stone ,#swiss ,#long exposure ,#military ,#alps ,#border ,#simplon ,#eagle ,#shine ,#360 ,#360? ,#valais]