Feldkirch

A number of luminaries have spent time in Feldkirch. James Joyce stopped for several months en route from Italy to Switzerland, saying later that he formed the basis for Ulysses here and that he gathered material for Finnegan's Wake. There is a plaque honoring him at the train station, where he spent hours every day observing people and trains for his writing. As a promising student, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle attended the Jesuit boarding school, Stella Matutina, which is now the Provincial Conservatory of Music. He wrote two short stories for the local newspaper, which are stored in the archives. And Thomas Mann used the same boarding school as a setting in The Magic Mountain.