
Zürich is a metropolis whose reputation precedes it - too does it a consummate disservice, trashes its name, gives it a proficient kicking. H5N1 ho-hum banking capital? '
Zu Reich' (too rich), business-minded too uptight? The spotless
Singapore of
Europe? If
Switzerland's largest metropolis 1 time lived downward to those dull descriptions, it for sure no longer does.
Contemporary Zürich mightiness all the same hold upward domicile to the world's fourth-biggest stock telephone substitution too stay
Switzerland's fiscal engine, precisely it's also (whisper it softly) surprisingly vibrant too trendy. Located on a picturesque river too lake whose H2O y'all tin drink, slowly to larn closed to too a stranger to the hassled lifestyle that defines bigger cities, this affluent, fashion-conscious house enjoys the finest things inwards life.

Hundreds of novel bars, restaurants too clubs accept opened since the belatedly 1990s and, since its Street Parade overtook London's Notting Hill Carnival, Zürich forthwith hosts
Europe's largest annual street party. Its old industrial quarter brims amongst nightlife venues catering to a youngish crowd, too this happening 'Züri-West' district has the same buzz every bit
Berlin's Prenzlauerberg or Mitte. The infamous 'gnomes', every bit the British similar to telephone telephone Zürich's bankers, are all the same here, precisely sometimes they tin astonish y'all past times whizzing past times on a Segway scooter.
Fortunately, the city's Protestant modesty saves it from e'er becoming likewise
schmicki-micki (chi-chi). With church building steeples ascension against a backdrop of hills too mountains, the medieval old town volition also appeal to traditionalists.
Show inwards Lonely PlanetReady to go?
These tours & activities arrive easy:
- Cycle betwixt Zurich, Lucerne too Bern too sense meadows, lakes too mountains
- See Heidiland too Liechtenstein inwards a day
- Take the cogwheel prepare to Jungfraujoch, Europe's highest railway station
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