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Musée de l’Hôtel Dieu
Everything from books and clocks to pharmaceutical objects are displayed in this delightful museum, well-placed in Porrentuy’s former hospital - a gorgeous baroque building with cobbled courtyard.
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Musée Romain Lausanne
Check out the remains of Roman Lousonna, and the adjacent museum, housed on the site of a Roman villa, with its modest collection of artefacts. Walk or take bus 1, 2 or 6 and alight at Maladière stop.
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Gletscherschlucht Rosenlaui
A round trail takes in waterfalls and 80m-high cliffs at this dramatic glacier gorge. The walk back to Meiringen takes at least two hours, but hourly buses also ply the route from June to September.
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Brunngasse
In town, mosey down postcard-perfect Brunngasse, a curving lane dotted with stout wooden chalets, each seemingly trying to outdo its neighbour with window displays of vines, kitsch gnomes and billowing geraniums.
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Zwinglis House
The house where firebrand preacher Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531) lived and worked. Zwingli began speaking out against the Catholic Church here in the 16th century, and thus brought the Reformation to Zürich.
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Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista
The centrepiece of Mogno is this extraordinary 1996 cylindrical church designed by Mario Botta. The grey (Maggia granite) and white (marble from Peccia) interior doorway has a strangely neo-Romanesque air to it.
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Barfüsserplatz
This bustling square is named after the barefoot Franciscan friars who founded the eponymous Barfüsserkirche (Barefooted Ones Church) here in the 14th century. Shops and eateries abound in the surrounding lanes.
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Piazza della Riforma
Porticoed lanes weave around Luganos busy main square, which is presided over by the 1844 neoclassical Municipio (town hall) and is even more lively when the Tuesday and Friday morning markets are held.
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Isole di Brissago
Boats glide across Lago Maggiore to this speck of an island, famous for its botanic gardens designed in the 19th century. Magnolias, orchids, yuccas and agaves are among the 1700 species that flourish here.
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St Ursen
Architect Gaetano Matteo Pisoni restrained himself with the classical Italianate facade of Solothurn’s monolithic 18th-century cathedral but went wild inside with a white-and-gilt trip of wedding-cake baroque.
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Kongress
Biel-Bienne’s concrete A-line-shaped Kongress- haus , built in the 1950s with a sports centre and a pool, sums up most people’s first impression of this town – ungainly, drab and not worth a special trip.
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Platzspitz
A green point of land where the Limmat and Sihl Rivers come together, just north of the train station and Landesmuseum. James Joyce was fond of this spot and included references to both rivers in Finnegans Wake.
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Museo Nazionale San Gottardo
Once at the top of the St Gotthard Pass, visit the Museo Nazionale San Gottardo, which covers the commercial, political and cultural significance of the pass and is housed in a former customs house and hotel.
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Fri Art
For an inspiring dose of contemporary art, head to this old red-brick seminary for some excellent temporary exhibitions. Late-night opening on Thursday includes free admission from 6pm and a bar serving drinks.
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Église des Cordeliers
Inside this 13th-century church the triptych (1480) above the high altar depicts the Crucifixion. Head through the door on the left as you face the altar to view polychromatic frescos in next-door’s convent.
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Saaser Museum
Meander along the main street, past the church, to this old wooden Valaisian house where village life in the 19th century is evoked through traditional embroidered costumes, household items and other ethnographic exhibits.
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Musée des Grenouilles
Frogs star at the Musée des Grenouilles, caught, stuffed and ‘modelled’ by François Perrier, a retired Swiss military fellow, in the 1860s. Weapons, Roman coins, 17th-century kitchen utensils et al focus on local history.
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Moulins Souterrains du Col
A series of underground mills carved out of the rock to exploit subterranean water flowing into the Doubs River makes for an unusual day out at the 17th-century Moulins Souterrains du Col-des-Roches , 2km west of Le Locle.
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Laténium
This archaeological park and museum, 3km northeast of Neuchâtel in Hauterive, is an atmospheric trip back in time, from local prehistory to the Renaissance. Take bus 1 from Place Pury to the Musée d’Archéologie stop.
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Le Rath
Across the traffic-busy square from green city park, Parc des Bastions , is this historic building – Switzerlands oldest purpose-built museum dating to 1826 and host today to some interesting, temporary art exhibitions.
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