The picturesque Swiss city of St. Gallen would like to welcome the 2025 Eurovision bandwagon along with all its fans, artists and delegations.

St. Gallen joins Geneva, Zurich and Basel in the list of  Swiss cities who have so far showcased an interest in hosting the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest next year.

SRF, the Swiss German national broadcaster reports that the City of St. Gallen would like to host the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest next year. Christine Bolt (Head of the Olma Agricultural Exhibition in Eastern Switzerland’ is keen to bring the competition to St. Gallen and thinks that the Olma Hall (Olma Messen) would be the perfect place to host Eurovision 2025.

St. Gallen is aiming to host the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest at the Olma Messen. The newly built venue can accomodate circa 12,000 spectators.

Olma Messen posted the following message on its official Facebook page:

There are at least 3 good reasons for this:

With the SGKB-hall we play again in the 1. League with

We East Swiss are friendly hosts

For our region, the ESC means image and value addition

St. Gallen is an hour’s train ride from Zurich International Airport. St. Gallen is the capital of the St. Gallen canton and has a population of circa 170, 000 inhabitants.

Source: SRF/ESCToday
Photo credit: st.gallen-bodensee.ch