Sightseeing tour of Zurich by car and on foot
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Unique in its content tour will introduce you to the largest of the Swiss cities. Not only will you look behind the curtain of Zurich’s thousand-year history, but you’ll also get to know its equally fascinating present day. By car, we will drive through the business part of Zurich (the famous Bahnhofstrasse street, the banking quarter), along the embankments of Lake Zurich, and then climb to the observation deck above the city, which is sheltered by the FIFA Headquarters. The walking part of the tour will take you through the winding streets of medieval Zurich, which were once marched by Roman legionnaires, Russian Cossacks, and in a cafe over a cup of hot chocolate decided the fate of their country by Russian revolutionaries.
Sunny today in Zurich, sunny and warm. We start the tour near your cozy hotel, comfortable in the car and go! Before us is the business part of Zurich, we are on the bank square of the Platz Parade, a couple of minutes further - see on the right - the Zurich Stock Exchange, by the way, is the fourth in the world in terms of the amount of transactions made here.
We ascend to the church of Enge - Ah, how the church dome shines in the sun! And back down to the blue surface of Lake Zurich! At the fountain, we immortalize ourselves against the background of the panorama of the lake and the city. Once again, through the quiet sleeping quarters of Zurich, we climb Sonnenberg’s Sun Mountain to FIFA headquarters: What a view of Zurich and its lake. We're in Dolder City Park, and here on the right is Zurich Zoo, one of the most advanced zoos in Europe. We are going to the university quarter: right in front of us the main building of the University of Zurich, on the left of the course the building of the Zurich Polytechnic Institute (ETH).
The system of secondary and higher education in this country is very different from our usual. Getting into these schools is very easy! You want to know how? To the river Limat my friends, we leave the car and go for a walk in medieval Zurich. 12 hours – the sun optimally illuminates the stained glass windows of Fraumunster Cathedral, and we go to visit Marc Chagall. What marvelous play of light in a colored glass mosaic? Inspired by biblical and Old Testament stories, we are ready to plunge into the 2000th history of Zurich. How quickly the time has passed! A few more steps and we are on the street Bahnhofstrasse and... The tour ends with a cup of hot chocolate in the famous cafe Sprungli. What's it really famous for?