EURO'08 Excursion Tips

We board the "Siesta", a semi-catamaran in Solothurn, Switzerland's most beautiful Baroque-style city.

Not many cities have managed to retain their historic features quite as successfully as Bern, the capital of Switzerland.

The Kornhauskeller is one of the most magnificent dining room of Switzerland and the dimensions of the room are an impressive experience.

With approximately 4,000 pictures by Paul Klee, the famous painter, the new Zentrum Paul Klee is the largest collection of this kind worldwide.

The only museum dedicated to the Swiss Alps introduces the visitors to cultural and natural pecularities of the alpine world.

Bern's signature mountain, which towers 280 m above the city, is widely known. Culture, leisure and games are focal points on Bern's very own mountain.

The Dählhölzli Animal Park operated by the City of Berne is set in a charming landscape right on the River Aare.

Bern's most frequented swimming pool is the "Marzili". As in all other municipal pools of Bern, no entrance fee is charged for swimming.

This celebrated cheese takes its name from the valley ("Tal") of the river Emme in the canton of Bern, where production of the cheese can be traced back to the 13th century.