Niesen
The Niesen is a mountain of the Bernese Alps in Switzerland.
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Montreux railway station (French: Gare de Montreux) is the largest of the railway stations serving the municipality of Montreux, in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland.
Lugano railway station
Lugano railway station (Italian: Stazione di Lugano) is the main railway station of the city of Lugano, in the Swiss canton of Ticino. The station is on the Gotthard railway, and is also the terminus of the metre gauge Lugano–Ponte Tresa Railway (FL…
Lac d'Emosson
Lac d'Emosson is a reservoir in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. It is located in the municipalities of Salvan and Finhaut. The closest major city in Switzerland is Martigny. The lake has a surface area of 3.27 km² and an elevation of 1,930 m. The…
Klausen Pass
Klausen Pass (German: Klausenpass; elevation: 1,948 metres or 6,391 feet) is a high mountain pass in the Swiss Alps connecting Altdorf in the canton of Uri with Linthal in the canton of Glarus.
Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute
The GDI Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute is an independent think-tank and the oldest organisation of its kind in Switzerland.
GoldenPass Line
The GoldenPass Line is a tourist-orientated train route in the Swiss Alps which connects Montreux to Lucerne.
Fortress Saint-Maurice
Fortress Saint-Maurice is one of the three main fortification complexes comprising the Swiss National Redoubt. The westernmost of the three, Fortress Saint-Maurice complements Fortress Saint Gotthard and Fortress Sargans to secure the central alpine…
Flüela Pass
Flüela Pass (elevation 2383 m) is a high mountain pass in the Swiss Alps in the canton of Graubünden.
Eigerwand railway station
Eigerwand is an underground railway station on the Jungfrau railway, which runs to the Jungfraujoch from Kleine Scheidegg. The station is situated just behind the famous north wall of the Eiger, and its principal purpose is to allow passengers to ob…
Church of St. Leodegar (Lucerne)
The Church of St. Leodegar (German: St. Leodegar im Hof or Hofkirche St. Leodegar) is the most important church and a landmark in the city of Lucerne, Switzerland.
Chinese Garden, Zürich
The Chinese Garden (German: Chinagarten Zürich) is a chinese garden in the Swiss city of Zürich.
Caux, Switzerland
Caux is a small village in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland.
Zermatt railway station
Zermatt railway station is a metre gauge railway station serving the car-free mountaineering and ski resort of Zermatt, in the Canton of Valais, Switzerland. It is the southern terminus of the BVZ Zermatt-Bahn (BVZ), which connects Zermatt with stan…
Wengernalp railway
The Wengernalp railway (German: Wengernalpbahn, WAB) is a 19.091 kilometres (11.863 mi) long rack railway line in Switzerland. It runs from Lauterbrunnen to Grindelwald via Wengen and Kleine Scheidegg, making it the world's longest continuous rack a…
Swissmint
Swissmint is the official mint of the Swiss Confederation. Located in the Swiss capital city Bern, it is responsible for manufacturing Swiss franc coins, both of the currency and bullion variety. Apart from making coins for the government, Swissmint…
Stadion Brügglifeld
Stadion Brügglifeld is a multi-purpose stadium in Aarau, Switzerland. It is primarily used for football matches and is the home stadium of FC Aarau. The current capacity is 9,249 seats, which are divided into 1499 covered seats. 1,187 covered seats …
Simmental
Simmental is an alpine valley in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland. It expands from Lenk to Boltigen, in a more or less south-north direction (Obersimmental), and from there to the valley exit at Wimmis near Spiez it takes a west-east orientation …
Silberhorn
The Silberhorn (3,695 m) is a pyramid-shaped mountain of the Bernese Alps, to the northwest of the Jungfrau of which it is a satellite peak.
Sihl
The Sihl is a river in Switzerland. It rises at Drusberg in the Canton of Schwyz. It passes through the Sihlsee near Einsiedeln, and then enters the Canton of Zurich, flowing through the Sihl valley (Sihltal) at the foot of the Albis, passing the Si…
Muri Abbey
Muri Abbey (German: Kloster Muri) is a Benedictine monastery dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours. It flourished for over eight centuries at Muri, in the Canton of Aargau, near Basel, Switzerland.
Munot
The Munot is a circular 16th century fortification in the center of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen. It is surrounded by vineyards and serves as the city's symbol. The ring-shaped fortress was built in the 16th century.
Montreux–Oberland Bernois railway
The Montreux–Oberland Bernois railway (French: Chemin de fer Montreux–Oberland Bernois, German: Montreux–Berner Oberland-Bahn, abbreviated MOB), is a railway operating in southwest Switzerland, one of the oldest electric railways in the country; its…
Microcosm (CERN)
Microcosm is a museum of particle physics located at CERN in the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland, near the town of Meyrin. It covers a broad range of particle physics topics, as well as the entire history of CERN.
Maison d'Ailleurs
The Maison d'Ailleurs (translated as "House of Elsewhere") is a museum of science fiction, utopia and extraordinary journeys in Yverdon-les-Bains (Switzerland).
Locarno (district)
The district of Locarno (also called Locarnese) is a district of Canton Ticino, Switzerland.
Limmat Valley
The Limmat valley (German: Limmattal) is a river valley and a region in the cantons of Zürich and Aargau in Switzerland.
Le Brassus
Le Brassus is a village in the Vallée de Joux in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland.
Lake Biel
Lake Biel or Lake Bienne (German: Bielersee, French: Lac de Bienne) is a lake in the west of Switzerland. Together with Lake Morat and Lake Neuchâtel, it is one of the three large lakes in the Jura region of Switzerland.
Lago di Luzzone
Lago di Luzzone is a reservoir in Ticino, Switzerland. The reservoir has a volume of 108 million m³ and a surface area of 1.27 km².
L'horloge fleurie
"L'horloge fleurie" (or "flower clock") was - with its diameter of 5 metres - the largest of its kind in the world until the installation of a 15 metres flower clock in Tehran, Iran on 7 June 2005.
Kunsthalle Basel
Kunsthalle Basel forms a vital part of Basel’s cultural centre and is located next to the city’s theatre and opposite the concert house Stadtcasino. Kunsthalle Basel is a place for innovative exhibitions that bring together local and international, …
Kleine Scheidegg railway station
Kleine Scheidegg is a railway station that serves the mountain pass of Kleine Scheidegg in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland. The pass houses a complex of hotels and railway buildings.
Interlaken-Oberhasli (administrative district)
Interlaken-Oberhasli District in the Canton of Bern was created on 1 January 2010, uniting the former Interlaken and Oberhasli districts. It is part of the Oberland administrative region.
Hardturm
The Hardturm was a football stadium located in Zürich's Kreis 5. Opened in 1929, it was the home of the Grasshopper Club Zürich.
Hammetschwand Elevator
The Hammetschwand Lift is the highest exterior elevator of Europe and is located in Switzerland.