Travel Switzerland - Travel Destinations

When you travel Switzerland, it is just like getting a taste of Italy, France and Germany in one place. Known as a summer and winter sports paradise (just look at the glistening white Swiss Alps and shimmering lakes like Lake Lucerne and Lake Geneva), Switzerland is where people ski for fun. Its cities, like Geneva, Zurich, Basel and Lausanne, heave with artistic activity and often incendiary nightlife.

It is a complex country of cohabiting cultures with four different languages (Swiss German, French, Italian and Romansh) and a balance of elegance (with its fine cathedrals in Lausanne and Bern and abbey complex of St. Gallen) and homeliness. You could be chomping on sausages over beer in an oom-pah-pah Stübli one day and pasta over a glass of merlot in a granite grotto the next. And if over-indulgence becomes a problem, try one of the country's thermal baths, from Yverdon-les-Bains to Scuol.

The list of enchanting towns is endless: from Lucerne with its covered bridge to Neuchâtel and its fountains; from Gruyères with its cheese, and Grimentz with its traditional timber houses to the sgraffito-blazoned buildings of Engadine towns like Scuol and Zuoz.

Whether visiting the remotest Ticino villages or sampling the finest of Valais wines, you'll find Switzerland a chocolate box bursting with unexpected flavours.

Attractions:

• Swiss Alps, Zurich
• Fraumünster Church, Zurich
• Swiss National Museum, Zurich
• Rhine Falls, Zurich
• Lake Geneva
• Lausanne, Geneva
• Château de Chillon, Geneva
• Kunsthaus Zurich (Fine Arts Museum)
• St. Peter's Cathedral, Geneva
• Bern

Travel Switzerland:

• Capital: Bern
• Population: 7.8 million
• Languages: German, French, Italian, Romansh

Source: lonelyplanet.com/switzerland; wikipedia.org
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