The picture-perfect town of Gruyeres in Switzerland invariably falls on the list of must visit places in Switzerland for the chocolate factory and more popularly for the unlimited chocolate tasting offered at the end of the tour in the chocolate factory. Gruyeres is a medieval town in the district of Gruyere in the Fribourg canton of Switzerland. The town of Gruyeres also gives its name to one of the finest and popular cheese in the world, the Gruyeres cheese.The bird crane is the emblem of the Gruyeres town and you will find it almost everywhere in the village on hotel signboards, windows and in facade decoration of buildings. In French, a grue is a crane and that is how the town gets its name ‘Gruyeres’.