Zurich Highlights
A walkable tour through Zurich's Old Town, riverside churches, lakefront, and its signature mountain viewpoint.
Trip Stops
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Switzerland's most-visited history museum, housed in a fairy-tale 1898 chateau-style building right behind the main train station. It holds over 870,000 objects spanning prehistory to the present, including Paleolithic artifacts and medieval treasures.
📍 Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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One of the world's most expensive shopping streets, built in 1864 over a filled-in moat once nicknamed the 'Ditch of the Frogs.' Beneath the elegant storefronts and old-money banks runs a hidden gold reserve, giving the street its unofficial title as the world's most valuable stretch of pavement.
📍 Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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A leafy hilltop square sitting atop a Roman customs fort and later a Carolingian imperial palace. Today it's a quiet spot for chess and giant boules games, with one of the best free views over the Limmat and Old Town rooftops.
📍 Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Home to the largest clock face in Europe, its four dials each measure 8.7 meters across. The church stands on the site of a former temple to Jupiter, next to the Lindenhof.
📍 Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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A Gothic church founded in 853 AD whose abbess once ruled Zurich with her own currency and courts. Its real draw today is five stained-glass windows designed by Marc Chagall in 1970, still glowing above the choir.
📍 Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Zurich's twin-towered Romanesque landmark, legendarily founded by Charlemagne after his horse knelt over the graves of the city's patron saints. It was also where Ulrich Zwingli launched the Swiss Reformation in 1519.
📍 Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Switzerland's largest art museum by floor area, with a collection ranging from medieval altarpieces to Giacometti and Munch. A 2021 expansion by architect David Chipperfield doubled its exhibition space.
📍 Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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The lakefront square where Bahnhofstrasse meets Lake Zurich, built in the 1880s by filling in the old city moat. It's the departure point for lake cruises and hosts a floating flower market twice a week in summer.
📍 Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Zurich's own 'house mountain,' reachable by a short train ride and topped by an Iron Age hillfort dating to around 500 BC. The summit lookout tower offers sweeping views of the city, Lake Zurich, and the Alps on a clear day.
📍 Stallikon, Zurich, Switzerland
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