Geneva

(~1h15 by train and car)

Old Town
Genève Plage
Bains des Pâquis
Jet d'eau (Water Fountain)
Geneva Golf Club
Cathédrale St Pierre
Musée Patek Philippe
Centre International de la Locomotion – Musée de l’Automobile
Gilbert Albert - Musée des Cabinotiers (museum of fine craftsmen)
M.A.M.C.O. (Le Musée d'art moderne et contemporain)
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire
Carouges

http://www.geneve-tourisme.ch/
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Lausanne

(~20-30min by train and car)

Eglise St François
Cathedral
Bel-Air Tower
Fossils in the Rue Cité-Devant
Hôtel de Ville
The Grand-Pont
The Jardins du Beau-Rivage Palace
Ouchy quays
La Tour Haldimand
Le Parc Denantou
Le Château de Grancy
Musée d'archéologie et d'histoire
Musée monétaire cantonal de Lausanne (Cantonal Money Museum)
Musée historique de Lausanne
Musée romain de Lausanne-Vidy
Musée olympique (Olympic Museum)
Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts (Cantonal Fine Arts Museum)
Collection de l'art brut
Fondation de l'Hermitage
L'Espace Arlaud
Musée de l'Elysée
Mudac (musée contemporain de design et d’arts appliqués contemporains)
Archives de la construction moderne et enac
Musée cantonal de géologie (Cantonal Museum of Geology)
Musée cantonal de zoologie (Cantonal Museum of Zoology)
Vivarium of Lausanne
Musée et jardins botaniques cantonaux (cantonal botanic gardens and museum)
Fondation Claude Verdan
Espace des inventions
Musée de la machine à écrire (typewriter museum)
Musée du vieil Ouchy

http://www.lausanne.ch/
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Vaudois Alps

Aigle (~10min. train / ~20min. car)
Château d’Aigle
Parc Aventure
Fondation Hérvé (collection of vintage cars)

Bex (~20min. train / ~30min. car)
Salt mines
Musée historique du Chablais

Diablerets (~1h. train / ~40min. car)
Glacier
Didactic course (walk of approx. 2hrs which tells the story of the historical, cultural and tourism stages of Ormont-Dessus)
Site of the Jardin Alpin

Château d'Oex (~1h by train and car)
Ski lifts
Musée de la montgolfière (hot-air balloon museum)

Leysin (~40min train and car)
Musée de la fromagerie (cheesemaking museum)
Horse-riding or pony-riding
Ice Karting
Sleds
Tobogganing Park
Ski lifts

Rougemont (~1h15 train /~1h car)
21st century church
Old chalets
Rougemont-Vidmanette cable-car

Villars (1h15 train /40 min. car)
Ski lifts
Golf

Gruyères (~1h15 train / ~40min. car)
Château

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Fribourg

(~1h15 train/ ~45min. car)

Old Town
Small tourist train
Cathédrale St Nicolas and its tower
Funicular
The 11 historical fountains (Fontaine de St.Georges, de la Vaillance, de Samson, de la Force, du Sauvage, de Saint-Jean, Sainte-Anne, de la Samaritaine, de la Fidélité, de Saint-Pierre, de Notre-Dame du Rosaire, de Tinguely)
Pont de Berne
Pont du Milieu
The Grand Boulevard
Tour Henri
Tour Rouge
Musée d'art et d'histoire
Musée Gutenberg
Musée de la bière Cardinal
Centre d’Art contemporain Fri-Art (centre of contemporary art)
Jardin Botanique
L'espace Jean Tinguely-Niki de St Phalle (temporary art exhibitions)

http://www.fribourgtourism.ch/en/welcome.cfm?
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Jura

(~2-3h train and car)

Cascade du Hérisson (waterfall)
Château Chalon
Fortified castle in Frontenay
Swims in or walks beside the Jura lakes
Walk in Lajoux in the regional natural park of theHaut Jura and visit to the Maison du Parc
Le clocher de Franche Compté
Golf in Mont Saint-Jean
Musée de la vigne et du vin in Arbois
Musée des anciennes salines of Salins-les-Bains (Saltworks)
Musée de l’Histoire in Morez
Musée des Beaux-Arts on Dole à Dole
Musée du jouet in Moirans en Montagne
Musée d’archéologie in Champagnole
Gallo-Roman site in Villars d’Héria
Abbaye d’Acey in Vitreux
Eglise Notre-Dame de l’assomption in Orgelet
Ancien prieuré roman de St.Lothain (former Roman priory)
Visits of the grottos of the Moidons in Molain, of Baume-les-Messieurs or Les Planches close to Arbois

http://www.juratourisme.ch/e/home/
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Neuchâtel

(~1h15 train and car)

Basse-Ruche relaxation and lesiure area at St Sergue
Visit of the Château de Boudry and its Musée de la vigne et du vin
Visit of the Musée le Laténium in Hauterive
Musée d’art et d’histoire
Panoramic funicular train La Coudre/ Chaumont
Walk along the Statue Trail in La Sagne

http://www.neuchateltourisme.ch/e/home/
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Basel

(~2h45 train/~2h car)

Visit of the Old Town
Basel Zoo
Visit of Small Basel (Kleinbasel)
Walk in the rose gardens in Landhaus Ettenbühl
Kunstmuseum Basel (leading art museum in Switzerland)
Historisches Museum (Basel Historical Museum)
Musical Museum (part of the Historical Museum)
Museum der Kulturen
Swiss Sportsmuseum
Swiss Architecture Museum
Tinguely Museum
Basel Paper Mill/ Swiss Museum for Paper
Galerie Beyeler
Galerie von Bartha

http://www.basel.com/en/welcome.cfm?
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Bern

(~1h40 train/~1h10 car)

Old Town
Visit of main monuments on board a steam tram (only between April and October, some weekends)
Bern Cathedral
Prison Tower
Clock Tower
Bear Pits
Federal Palace
Elfenau pastoral estate
Botanic garden
Zoo
Walk along the Aare River
The garden, the Rose Garden
Bern Stadium (Le stade de suisse)
Einstein Museum
Museum of Fine Arts
Collection of Classical Antiquities
Paul Klee Foundation

Visiting of main monuments aboard a steam tram (only between April and October, some weekends)

http://www.berninfo.com/en/welcome.cfm?
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Bernese Alps

(~1h30-2h train and car)


Walk beside the Lake of Thun
Walk beside Lake Brienz
Mystery Park in Interlaken Ost.
Spiez castle
Kandersteg-Sunnbüel cable-car
Jungfrau Glacier
Grindelwald
Skiing in Wengen
Trümmelbach Waterfalls
Schiltorn cable-car
Mont Brouillard


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Lucerne

(~3h train/~2h car)

Old Town
Walk beside the Lake of the Four Cantons
Dreilinden Park
Fritschi Fountain
Hotel Château Gütsch
Kapellbrücke (Chapel Bridge)
Lucerne Lion Monument
Bourbaki Panorama
Swiss Museum of Transport
Weinmarkt (wine market)
 Zur Gilgen House
Mühlenbrücke
Franciscan Church
Jesuit Church
Lucerne Abbey
Benedictine Abbey
Water Tower
Mont Pilatus

http://www.luzern.org/en/welcome.cfm
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Zurich

(~2h40 train/~2h15 car)

Old Town
Lindenhofplatz
St. Peter-Kirche
Fraumünsterkirche
Grossmünster Dom (cathedral)
Paradeplatz (one of the most expensive districts in Switzerland)
The Schanzengraben (quiet canal area below road level)
Museum Mühlerama (mill museum)
Kunsthaus Zürich (fine arts museum)
Museum für Gestaltung (design and contemporary art museum)
Museum Rietberg
Landesmuseum (Swiss National Museum)
Foundation E.G. Bürhrle
Botanic garden of the University of Zürich
Dolder Ice Complex (ice rinks)
Walk beside the lake

http://www.zuerich.com/en/welcome.cfm?
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Schaffhausen

(~4h train/~2h45 car)

Rheinfall (Great Waterfall of the Rhein)
Lake Constance
Boating on the Rhein
Old Town of Schaffhausen
Munot Forteress
All Saints monastery and historical museum
Museum of the textile industry and Abbey Library


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Glarus

(~4h train/3h car)

Museum « Palais Freuler »
Hiking along the various walking paths
Cable-car as far as Elm, Schwanden, Braunwald or Kerenzerberg
Sledging in winter and toboganning in summer
Cycle along the Industrieweg
Lake Walenstadt
Linth River
Tamina gorges in Bad Ragaz

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Grisons

(~5h train / ~4h30 car)

Arosa
Swiss National Park, Zernez
Kloster Pass
Kunstmuseum Grisons in Chur
Chur Cathedral
Saint-Moritz- Poschiavo Valley
S-Chanf
Grisons Autumn Fair in Obere Au
Davos-Engadine Valley-Bregalia Valley
Skiing in St-Moritz


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Ticino

(~5-6h train / ~3h45 car)

Lake Lugano
Chocolate museum in Casiano
Museo cantonale d’arte (Art Museum) in Lugano
Lugano Estival Jazz
Cantonal Natural History Museum in Lugano
Lake Majeur
Locarno International Film Festival
Castello Visconteo (Locarno castle)
Jazz
Ascona
Rabadan (Carnival) in Bellinzona
Museo di Castelgrande in Bellinzona
Les 3 castles of Bellinzona : Castelgrande, Montebello, Sasso Corbaro
Piazza Blues festival in Bellinzona
Verzasca Valley
Chruch of S.Pietro e Paolo in Brissago e isole
Museo del Vino in Tenero
Sanctuary of the Madonna in Orselina

http://www.ticino.ch/?lang=en
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Valais region

( ~45min-2h45 train / 20min to 2h15 car)

Nendaz
Medieval village of Saillon
The Portes du Soleil
St Gotthard tunnel
Brig
Anzère
Champex Lake
Aletsch Glacier
Lötschental (valley)
Zermatt
Sion
Verbier
Cervin
Lavey-les-bains
Visit to the Ice Pavilion in Saas-Fee
Caprices Festival in Crans-Montana
Pierre Gianadda Foundation
Loèche-les-bains
Swiss Vapeur Parc in Le Bouveret
Aquaparc in Le Bouveret

http://www.valais.ch/en/welcome.cfm?


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