Innovative. Pulsating. Characterful.

The Hotel Adler was first mentioned in 1357 as a hereditary tenure of the Fraumünster Abbey. The Fraumünster abbess was actually not only the ruler of the town, but also had the rights of customs, marketing and coinage. Discover the impressive choir windows by Marc Chagall: He felt this church to be a holy place and created a colourful work of art. His choir windows show the path from people to God, the rosette represents the story of the Creation.

From the stinking cesspool of the city fortification ditches to the best-known Bahnhofstrasse in the world: The Zurich Bahnhofstrasse connects the main rail station with Lake Zurich. Here you can find everything that the modern shopper’s heart desires. International labels, watches, jewellery. With the memorial to Alfred Escher, for whom Rudolf Koller painted the Gotthard Post, the end of the Bahnhofstrasse commemorates another famous citizen of Zurich: Escher instigated the building of the Gotthard Pass and laid the foundations in Zurich for rail travel, research and commerce.

If you are looking for urban Zurich design, you are right on the money in Zurich West. Where the machines of textile and gear-wheel factories once clattered during the Industrial Revolution and where beer has been brewed for over 100 years, new life is now appearing behind the old factory walls. Creative accessories, urbane clothing, innovative gastro concepts and a wide variety of concerts and parties fascinate in this upwardly-mobile quarter of the city, where Zurich’s new skyline is currently being created. 

The world’s first rotating cable car carries you to the snow and permanent ice of the Titlis, 3020 metres above sea level. Here it always seems to be winter: The ice grottoes with their ice sculptures dazzle the eyes. With the modern Ice-Flyer glacier chairlift, you hover directly above the glacier cracks and snow slides invite you to icy pleasures. Approach by train via Engelberg or by coach from the Sihlquai bus park with sight-seeing in Lucerne.

You can book these and other day excursions with Zürich Tourism.

Take a trip to the Zürichberg to see elephants, lions, penguins, bears, fishes and many other animals. Watch feeding time, enjoy the animal presentations or take a tour through the experience and treetop paths of the Masoala rain forest in the tropics: You will encounter monkeys, flying foxes, tortoises – with the constant accompaniment of whispering, squeaking and screeching animal voices. 
Zurich’s rainforest is tropically warm, even in winter. Here you can find the causes for the disappearance of the forests and obtain more information on protection projects. www.zoo.ch

From Bürkliplatz you travel by ship along the entire 28 kilometre long Lake Zurich. While the outline of the city behind you becomes smaller and smaller on the horizon, the villages on shore, with their villas and vinyards, come into view. Boats sail on the wind across the water, along the shore white swans roam and the Alps on the horizon come closer and closer. Small round trips from 1.5 hours daily and larger round trips from 4 hours to Rapperswil. The offering is completed by theme trips such as the Friday Dance Ship or the Murder Mystery Ship. Travel schedule: www.zsg.ch