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Alpine Garden
The Alpine Garden on Schynige Platte (The Plateau) boasts over 500 types of flora. Take a cog-wheel train trip from Wilderswil to the 1967m (6450ft)-high plateau and be rewarded by magnificent views and an abundance of alpine flora, including Edelweiss. Theres also a collection of
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Flumserberg
For a little Alpine fun, take the winding mountain road to Flumserberg, perched high above the lake and facing the impenetrable rock wall of the Churfirsten range. The mountain is the starting point for high-Alpine hikes like the 13km 7-Gipfel Tour , taking in seven peaks and affor
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Place de la Palud
In the heart of the Vieille Ville (Old Town), this 9th-century medieval market square – pretty as a picture – was originally bogland. For five centuries it has been home to the city government, now housed in the 17th-century Hôtel de Ville (town hall). A fountain pierces one end of
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Kleine Scheidegg
Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau soar almost 2000m above you at Kleine Scheidegg (2061m), where restaurants huddle around the train station. Most people only stay for a few minutes while changing trains for Jungfraujoch, but it’s worth lingering to appreciate the dazzling views, including
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Abbaye de Bellelay
For eight centuries, villages around the Abbaye de Bellelay, 8km north of Tavannes between Moutier and St Imier, have produced a strong, nutty-flavoured cheese now known as monks’ cheese. In 1792 revolutionary troops marched in, obliging the monks at the abbey to abandon the cylind
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Schloss Habsburg
A vertical stone fortress that would not be out of place in Arthurian legend or a Monty Python sketch, Schloss Habsburg was built in 1020 and gave its name to a house that would one day become one of Europe’s greatest ruling dynasties.Bus 366 runs every two hours (hourly on weekday
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Val Verzasca
Located about 4km northeast of Locarno, this rugged 26km valley snakes north past the impressive Vogorno dam, fed by the gushing Verzasca (Waters) river. Just beyond Lake Vogorno, look to the left and you will see the picture-postcard hamlet of Corripo seemingly pasted on to the th
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Helvetiaplatz Museums
The area called Helvetiaplatz is home to a number of museums, the pick of which is probably the Historisches Museum Bern . Tapestries, diptychs and other world treasures vividly illustrate Bernese history from the Stone Age to the 20th century in a building that resembles a fairy-t
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Parco Botanico del Gambarogno
In the hills above Vira, about 8km north of the Switzerland–Italy border and 16.5km southeast of Locarno spread the heady gardens of the Gambarogno Botanic Gardens. Hundreds of types of azalea, camellia, magnolia, rhododendron and other spring and summer flowers fill the air with t
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Parc Ela
Switzerlands biggest nature park is Parc Ela. Spanning 600 sq km and encompassing 21 communities in the Albula-Bergün and Savognin-Bivio areas, the park is three and a half times the size of the Swiss National Park. If you have the time and inclination, the spectacular 15-day Veia
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Stanserhorn
Looming above the lake, 1898m Stanserhorn boasts 360° vistas of Lake Lucerne, Mt Titlis, Mt Pilatus and the Bernese Alps, among others. Getting to the summit is half the fun. The journey starts with a ride on a vintage 19th-century funicular from Stans to Kälti; from here, the near
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Musée Cantonal des Beaux Arts
Palais de Rumine , a bombastic neo-Renaissance pile (1904) where the Treaty of Lausanne (finalising the break-up of the Ottoman Empire after WWI) was signed in 1923, safeguards the city’s fine arts museum. Works by Swiss and foreign artists, ranging from Ancient Egyptian art to Cub
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Blackmint – Distillerie Kübler & Wyss
From 1910, following Switzerland’s prohibition of the wickedly alcoholic and ruthlessly bitter aniseed drink, distillers of the so-called ‘devil in the bottle’ in the Val de Travers moved underground. In 1990 the great-grandson of a pre-prohibition distiller in Môtiers came up with
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Männlichen
On the ridge dividing the Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen Valleys, Männlichen (2230m) is one of the region’s top viewpoints. Europe’s longest cable car connects Grindelwald Grund to Männlichen. Another cable car comes up the other side of the ridge, from Wengen (one way/return Sfr23/
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Schilthorn
There’s a tremendous 360-degree, 200-peak panorama from the 2970m Schilthorn, best appreciated from the Skyline viewing platform or Piz Gloria revolving restaurant. On a clear day, you can see from Titlis around to Mont Blanc, and across to the German Black Forest. Yet some visitor
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Lake Lucerne
If youre not averse to breathtaking mountain scenery - perhaps a glance or two at a shimmering expanse of water with majestic steep peaks of limestone hunched over the coastline, forests coming down to the shore filled with deer, chamois, foxes, and Alpine-native marmots; and ferti
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Glacier Express
The Glacier Express is one of Europes mythical train journeys. It starts and ends in two of Switzerlands oldest, glitziest mountain resorts – Zermatt and St Moritz – and the Alpine scenery is magnificent in parts. Check the weather forecast before committing: a blue sky is essentia
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Swiss National Park
The Engadines pride and joy is the Swiss National Park, easily accessed from Scuol, Zernez and S-chanf. Spanning 172 sq km, Switzerlands only national park is a nature-gone-wild swathe of dolomitic peaks, shimmering glaciers, larch woodlands, pastures, waterfalls and high moors str
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Mt Titlis
Central Switzerlands tallest mountain, Mt Titlis, is known for being reached by the worlds first revolving cable car. This was completed in 1992 and is still one of the few on the planet. However, thats the last leg of a breathtaking four-stage journey. First, you must ascend to Ge
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Jungfraujoch
Everyone wants to see Jungfraujoch (3454m). It’s a once-in-a-lifetime trip that you need to experience first-hand. There’s a reason why two million people a year visit Europe’s highest train station. The icy wilderness of swirling glaciers and 4000m turrets that unfolds at the top
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