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The city - Zurich

Brief description of the city

Zurich is Switzerland's business centre with the charm of a small town and the infrastructure of a metropolis. Zurich is top for leisure and pleasure. Gentle hills, peaceful woods, the unpolled lakes and rivers, picturesque villages and all just a stone's throw from the Alps. Zurich is the ideal starting point for all kinds of varied excursions.

Enjoy the pretty old town, the trendy new Zurich West district and the glorious lake.

With the opera, ballet, theater premieres, shows, musicals, art exhibitions in over 50 museums and 100 galleries, time never drags in Zurich.

The famous Bahnhofstrasse and the Limmatquai are a shopper's paradise. Over 1 700 restaurants and bars serve both traditionnal Zurich and Swiss dishes as well as exotic specialities.

The evenings will leave you spoilt for choice: indoors or outdoors, anything is possible as far as the nightlife in Zurich goes.

Roughly three million people live in the Greater Zurich area, making it one of Europe's most densely populated regions. The greater Zurich area is Switzerland's business centre and offers companies myriad benefits.

Some useful web sites

 

                       www.zuerich.com/fr/welcome.cfm

            www.myswitzerland.com/fr.cfm/home/staedtereisen/offer-Destinations_Resorts-Short%20City%20Breaks-109805.html

                        www.tripadvisor.fr/Tourism-g188113-Zurich-Vacations.html

                       trains: www.sbb.ch/en/index.htm

                       trams et buses: www.vbz.ch/vbz_opencms/opencms/vbz/english/

                         At Winterthur: www.technorama.ch/index.php

                         At Lucerne (avec IMAX et Planètarium): www.verkehrshaus.ch/en/information/aktuell/index.php