Discover Switzerland: 46 places to visit

SummerAutumn

Valais

Aletsch Glacier

The largest glacier in the Alps

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All seasons

Eastern Switzerland

Appenzell

Abbatiscella, the abbot's cell

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All seasons

Basel & Northwest

Basel

The first public art collection in the world

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All seasons

Ticino

Bellinzona

Three castles holding a valley floor

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All seasons

Bernese Oberland & Mittelland

Bern

A city-state in a loop of the Aare

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All seasons

Graubünden

Bernina Railway

The highest railway crossing in Europe

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All seasons

Lake Geneva Region

Chillon Castle

A castle on a limestone island

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All seasons

Graubünden

Chur

Reputedly the oldest town in Switzerland

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SpringSummerAutumn

Fribourg & Neuchâtel

Creux du Van

An amphitheatre 1,400 metres wide

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All seasons

Graubünden

Davos

A health resort that became the Forum

Moderate Alpine & high mountain Video Article Map

SummerAutumn

Bernese Oberland & Mittelland

Eiger

The biggest north face in the Alps

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All seasons

Lake Geneva Region

Geneva

The peace capital, where the Rhône leaves the lake

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All seasons

Valais

Gornergrat

Twenty-nine peaks over 4,000 metres

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All seasons

Bernese Oberland & Mittelland

Grindelwald

Under a wall from the Wetterhorn to the Eiger

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All seasons

Fribourg & Neuchâtel

Gruyères

A town on a hill, and the cheese it named

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All seasons

Bernese Oberland & Mittelland

Interlaken

Between two lakes, on the Bödeli

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All seasons

Bernese Oberland & Mittelland

Jungfraujoch

The highest railway station in Europe

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SpringSummerAutumn

Bernese Oberland & Mittelland

Lake Brienz

Fourteen kilometres, 260 metres deep

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All seasons

Lake Geneva Region

Lake Geneva

Caesar knew it as lacus Lemannus

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All seasons

Central Switzerland

Lake Lucerne

Meltwater of the Reuss Glacier

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All seasons

Lake Geneva Region

Lausanne

The Olympic capital, on the hills above the water

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All seasons

Bernese Oberland & Mittelland

Lauterbrunnen

A valley under the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau

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SpringSummerAutumn

Lake Geneva Region

Lavaux

Terraced vineyards since the eleventh century

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All seasons

Ticino

Locarno

The film festival, and the treaties of 1925

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All seasons

Central Switzerland

Lucerne

Named, perhaps, for a pike-fishing spot

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All seasons

Ticino

Lugano

A market town since 984, on its lake

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SummerAutumn

Valais

Matterhorn

Four faces, four cardinal points

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All seasons

Lake Geneva Region

Montreux

Belle Époque palaces on the Swiss Riviera

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All seasons

Central Switzerland

Mount Pilatus

The steepest cogwheel railway in the world

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All seasons

Fribourg & Neuchâtel

Murten

German-speaking, in a French-speaking canton

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All seasons

Fribourg & Neuchâtel

Neuchâtel

A castle finished in 1011, and watchmaking

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All seasons

Eastern Switzerland

Rhine Falls

The most powerful waterfall in Europe

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All seasons

Central Switzerland

Rigi

Queen of the Mountains, ringed by three lakes

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All seasons

Valais

Saas-Fee

Thirteen four-thousanders around one village

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All seasons

Eastern Switzerland

Säntis

Six countries from one summit

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All seasons

Eastern Switzerland

Schaffhausen

171 oriel windows, more than any Swiss town

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All seasons

Valais

Sion

Settled since 6200 BC, under two castles

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All seasons

Eastern Switzerland

St. Gallen

An abbey library with ninth-century books

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All seasons

Graubünden

St. Moritz

Springs the Celts had already found

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All seasons

Eastern Switzerland

Stein am Rhein

A medieval town wall now made of houses

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SummerAutumn

Graubünden

Swiss National Park

The oldest national park in the Alps

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All seasons

Bernese Oberland & Mittelland

Thun

Where the Aare leaves its lake

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SpringSummerAutumn

Bernese Oberland & Mittelland

Trümmelbach Falls

Ten waterfalls inside a mountain

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All seasons

Valais

Verbier

2,767 residents, and 35,000 in season

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All seasons

Valais

Zermatt

The southernmost commune of German-speaking Europe

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All seasons

Zurich

Roman Turicum, and Zwingli's Reformation

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