Yet, rest assured, you will be charmed by it nonetheless, definitely enough to get a wish to visit it one day. The city is very old.
There is evidence that the area of the municipality was already inhabited in as early as the middle Bronze Age. The name Delemonte was first mentioned in Then later in , the German name Telsperg was documented as the first mention.
Other old names of the city include Laimunt and Deleymunt The name is believed to be a derivative of the Germanic Tello or Dagili and the Latin word mons meaning mountain. In , the confrontation between those who were faithful to Berne and those who were in favor of the separation from the Canton of Bern made the city the focal point of unrest.
As a result of two referendums, held in and , the Canton of Jura was formed. The average height of the mountain range is m. The folded relief of these mountains with intermittent ridges and streams flowing in the valleys of the mountains is very picturesque, and very old.
Old enough to see a plenty of dinos strolling around its slopes and valleys. Since, it was the site of the excavations, the limestone mountains of the Jura gave the name to the following geological period — the second segment of the Mesozoic Era , occurring from For this reason, the local of 12, people as of December are usually fluent enough in at least a couple of languages and dialects.
