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Museo Hermann Hesse
This museum showcases Herman Hesses personal objects, including some of the thousands of watercolours he painted in Ticino, books and other odds and ends that help re-create something of his life. From Lugano, get the Ferrovia Ponte Tresa train to Sorengo and change for a postal bu
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Gletschergarten
The Gletschergarten houses a strip of rock bearing the scars (including huge potholes) inflicted on it by the glacier that slid over it some 20 million years ago. Kids of all ages and devotees of kitsch will love getting lost in the Thousand and One Nights –style mirror maze inspir
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Eis Paläste
About 2km north of the village is Karl Neuhaus’ Eis Paläste , a magical construction of turrets, bridges, domes, grottoes and crystal palaces between pine trees – built solely from ice. Illuminated at night, an evening stroll along the sand paths (not to mention a picnic in an iglo
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Schloss Laufen
Looking proudly back on 1000 years of history, the medieval castle Schloss Laufen overlooks the falls at closer quarters. You can buy a ticket at its souvenir shop to walk or take the panoramic lift down to the Känzeli viewing platform , where you can appreciate the full-on crash-b
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Musée de la Vigne et du Vin
Two thousand years of wine making is evoked in the compelling Musée de la Vigne et du Vin, a thoroughly modern and interactive wine museum inside Aigle’s fairy-tale château. The six hands-on digital experiments – indulge in your own Chasselas grape harvest, make wine etc – in the ‘
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Inseli
Just a stone’s throw from the train station, Inseli is a leafy lakefront park where locals congregate in sunny weather to lounge on the grass, play ping pong at outdoor tables and drink at the summertime bars Volière and Buvette. From the station, head east past the KKL, then turn
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Centovalli Railway
To see the valley in beautiful slow motion, hop aboard the panoramic Centovalli Railway Departing from Locarno for Domodossola (1¾ hours, 11 daily), the train trundles across 83 bridges and burrows through 34 tunnels, offering superlative views of waterfalls, vineyards, craggy moun
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Ascenseur Plein Ciel
From the top funicular station, hike to the satellite-dish-encrusted communication tower near the top of Mont Pélerin and hop in this glass lift on the side of the tower that whisks you another 65m higher to a viewing platform. The panorama of Lavaux, Lake Geneva, the Jura and the
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Musée du CIMA
The art of making music boxes is documented in Sainte Croix Centre International de la Méchanique d’Art. Music boxes contain a rotating spiked cylinder that bends and releases metal prongs, causing them to vibrate and hum melodiously. Some of the more elaborate boxes also incorpora
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Fotomuseum
The vast collection at Winterthur’s outstanding photography museum features great names and styles from the 19th century to the present. Additional photo shows are staged across the street in the museums two partner institutions, the Fotostiftung and Zentrum für Fotografie. Buy a K
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Tellskapelle
On Lake Uris eastern shore, this chapel is covered in murals depicting four episodes in the Tell legend, including the one that’s supposed to have occurred on this spot, his escape from Gessler’s boat. There’s a huge carillon that chimes behind the chapel. Tellskapelle is 30 minut
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St Remigiuskirche
This Romanesque church is perched on a hill that has been a site of worship since prehistoric times, as attested by the line-up of modest menhirs leading up to it. Inside the shingle-roofed church is a striking mid-17th-century fresco depicting the Last Supper. From the cemetery yo
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Kloster St Johann
Vibrant Carolingian (9th century) and Romanesque (12th century) frescos smother the interior of the church of Benedictine Kloster St Johann. Beneath Carolingian representations of Christ in Glory in the apses are Romanesque stories depicting the grisly ends of St Peter (crucified),
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Rheinfall
Ensnared in wispy spray, the thunderous Rheinfall might not give Niagara much competition in height (23m), width (150m) or even flow of water (700 cu metre per second in summer), but Europes largest plain waterfall is stunning nonetheless. Trails thread up and along its shore, with
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Musée Suisse du Jeu
An amusing spot for kids, the Swiss Game Museum has games arranged by theme – educational, strategic, simulation, skill and chance – and there are several you can play, including outdoor ones in the elegant waterfront grounds. The museum is in a château on the lakeshore, a 20-minut
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Trümmelbachfälle
These glacier falls are a bang-crash spectacle. Inside the mountain, up to 20,000L of water per second corkscrews through ravines and potholes shaped by the swirling waters. The 10 falls drain from 24 sq km of Alpine glaciers and snow deposits. Bus 141 from the train station (Sfr3.
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Rätisches Museum
Housed in a baroque patrician residence, this museum spells out the cantons history in artefacts, with Bronze Age jewellery, Roman statuettes, weapons and agricultural tools, alongside displays on religion and power and politics. Children should ask for the museum key to discover t
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Cité du Temps
This 19th-century industrial building straddling Lake Geneva was constructed in the 1840s to provide the citys public fountains with water. Today it hosts temporary art exhibitions on its 1st floor and La Collection Swatch – the worlds largest collection of the funky Swiss watches
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Naturhistorisches Museum
The Natural History Museum near Helvetiaplatz features the famous moth-eaten and taxidermied remains of Barry, a 19th-century St Bernard rescue dog. A new exhibit, opened in 2014, traces the history of St Bernard dogs in the Swiss Alps and recounts some of Barrys legendary (ie not
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Rathausplatz
Often hailed as Switzerland’s most beautiful town square (no mean feat!), the elongated Rathausplatz is picture-book stuff. The fresco-festooned Rathaus (town hall) soars above the 16th-century houses named according to the pictures with which they are adorned, such as Sonne (Sun)
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