Harry Lime's famous quip about the cuckoo clock (what have the swiss to show for 500 years of peace and prosperity?) seems unfair today, when they are smashing atoms into each other beneath Geneva at CERN to see how the world began. Switzerland, like Austria, is most popular for skiers, but the alps in summer are well worth breaking your travel habits for. Clean, efficient and stunningly beautiful, Switzerland should be on everyone's list of top ten destinations.
Come to Switzerland for...
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Even regular visitors (myself included) find the sheer variety of runs in various directions bewildering. Like a taxi driver trying to acquire "the knowledge" in London's myriad streets, I feel I am only half way to passing my exams. Not ...
Go for: Skiing, Trains, Road Trips
3 experiences:
Verbier, The Mont Blanc Express, Great St. Bernard Pass: Martigny to Aosta.
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Practical guide to enjoying Zurich.By Mira Fil Best time to visit Zurich is the northern gateway to the Swiss Alps. At the same time it lies comfortably at 408 metres above sea level, which means it gets quite warm in summer. If you’re on the...
Go for: Trains, Shopping, Christmas Markets, Contemporary Architecture, Festivals
5 experiences:
The Golden Pass, Centre Le Corbusier, Zurich Festival, Zürich Christmas Markets, Zurich and its chocolate.
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No matter where you find yourself on the slopes of this remarkable ski area, the granite monolith of Europe’s most famous peak, the Matterhorn, seems to follow you around. Although by no means the highest of the 29 peaks above 4,000 metres around ...
Go for: Skiing, Walking, Snow Adventures
3 experiences:
Zermatt, The Haute Walking Route, Zermatt's Ice Rinks.
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This scenic resort finds favour amongst both skiers and non-skiers, with an extensive range of other activities including shopping and a wide cariety of other sports. The numerous ski areas favour advanced and intermediate skiers, though there are ...
Go for: Trains, Skiing, Golf
3 experiences:
Glacier Express, Snow Golf Championship, St Moritz.
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Go for: Contemporary Architecture, Visitor Attractions
3 experiences:
Basel Zoo, Goetheanum I, Vitra Design Museum.
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Located in the heart of the Bernese Oberland, at Grindelwald you can ski beneath the towering north wall of the Eiger and the graceful glacier-clad Jungfrau. On forest trails here you may come across log cabin restaurants featuring delicious fondue ...
Go for: Skiing
1 experiences:
Grindelwald.
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This is an obvious one to chose, but it just looks so fantastic. The futuristic looking town bit is built into the side of the mountain and the runs cover a huge selection of terrain. The lifts actually go through the town and I stayed in a block ...
Go for: Snowboarding
1 experiences:
Avoriaz.
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The Convent of St Gall, a perfect example of a great Carolingian monastery, was, from the 8th century to its secularization in 1805, one of the most important in Europe. Its library is one of the richest and oldest in the world and contains precious...
Go for: Churches & Abbeys
1 experiences:
Convent of St Gall.
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Only the fourth largest of Switzerland’s lakes but no less surrounded by old and pretty towns and sweeping alpine scenery. Long and spindly with narrow sections coming off like octopus legs, Lake Lucerne is shaped by the mountains it hugs the bases...
Go for: Lakes
1 experiences:
Lake Lucerne.
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The accentuated fragility of Lausanne Cathedral’s ornate architecture has given the building a reputation as one of Switzerland’s most impressive pieces of gothic architecture; consecrated in 1275 it is still incomplete as far as the original plans...
Go for: Churches & Abbeys
1 experiences:
Lausanne Cathedral.
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Verbier
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