VISIT ZURICH – THE LAND THAT REMEMBERS HISTORY
Famous as the country's economic and cultural hub and one of
Europe's main financial and business capitals, it's easy to forget that it's
also a charming and captivating place for tourists. Its many attractions
include dozens of museums, a well-preserved old town filled with medieval and
Renaissance buildings, and enough art - both in and out of museums - to keep
art-lovers happy for a week. Zurich's custom of liberal thinking and active
intellectual life drew in leading figures that included Georg Büchner, Vladimir
Lenin, James Joyce, C. G. Jung, and Thomas Mann. Zurich is also a sight to
behold, visit Zurich to experience
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Zurich Zoo
More than 360 different animal species live in the exotic
world of the Zurich Zoo, one of the finest in Europe. Animals live as close to
their own environments as possible: snow leopards amid the rocky Himalayan
landscape, penguins swimming in chilly water, and you can spot flying foxes
from a canopy walk amid 13,000 square meters of tropical rainforest. In
the Kaeng Krachan Elephant Park, you
can watch the Asian elephant family play with their babies and bathe in their
multi-environment outdoor complex, which was designed to resemble their natural
Thai habitat. Trams and trains run to the zoo from the main train station and
the Paradeplatz.
Swiss
National Museum
A castle-like building with neo-Gothic trappings houses an
excellent museum showcasing the enlightening history of all Switzerland. It is
by far the most significant collection of Swiss historic and cultural artefacts
- more than 820,000 of them, covering a wide range of subjects from prehistory
through the 20th century. The archaeological collections, with artefacts
discovered in Switzerland that date from about 100,000 BC to about AD 800 are
among the best in Europe. Entire collections cover works of gold- and
silversmiths, textiles, costumes, metalwork, jewellery, watches and clocks,
scientific instruments, rural life, carriages and sleighs, musical instruments,
crafts, and industrial antiquities. The medieval wall canvases are particularly
interesting, as is the collection of old stained glass. The Armory Tower
exhibits an important collection of arms and armour.
Kunsthaus
Zurich
The Kunsthaus is run by the Zürich Society of Arts and traces
its antiquity back to a society of artists founded in 1787. While it has large
collections of works by several artists - more portraits by Charles Munch than
any other museum outside of Oslo and Europe's most important collection of
Monet's works outside of Paris - the weight has always been on showing the
highest quality works by an artist over the largest quantity. The Kunsthaus is
especially strong in Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, and Modern schools,
beginning with the forerunners and early Impressionists Delacroix, Corot,
Courbet, and Manet. Two of the most stunning of the large water lily canvases
are at the centre of the Monet exhibit. Both Cézanne and van Gogh are
represented by paintings from the end of their careers - van Gogh's painted in
the final days of his life. An entire room is filled with characteristic
dreamlike works of Marc Chagall.
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