Zurich is the most important centre of the Swiss media and creative industry. With its location on Lake Zurich, its well-preserved medieval old town and a diverse range of cultural offerings and nightlife, it is also a centre of tourism.
Zurich, which emerged from the Roman base of Turicum, became a free imperial city in 1262 and a member of the Confederation in 1351. The city of the reformer Huldrych Zwingli became the second most important (after Wittenberg) centre of the Reformation in 1519. To this day it is considered the starting point of the worldwide Reformed Church and the Anabaptists.
The city of Zurich is an important centre of Swiss art and culture. Zurich owes part of its cultural upswing to numerous painters, composers and writers who stayed in the city - often as political refugees - and left their mark: including Antonio Ligabue, Max Frisch, James Joyce, Thornton Wilder, Hermann Hesse and Thomas Mann. The artistic and literary movement Dadaism emerged in Zurich in 1916 at the Cabaret Voltaire.
Art enthusiasts are recommended to visit the Kunsthaus Zurich or the Museum Rietberg.
Almost in the center of Winterthur is one of the oldest surviving buildings in the city, the city church, whose building history can be divided into seven main phases between the early Middle Ages and the Reformation.
A business appointment had brought us to the Swiss city of Winterthur for the first time, which, over the past 150 years, has undergone a major change from a formerly important industrial city to a metropolis known today as a service, education, culture and leisure center with 16 museums.
When it was founded, Vitudurum was in the province of Gallia Belgica and during the Roman Empire it was in its successor province, Germania Superior, which existed from the year 90 to the end of the 3rd century. In late antiquity, the Vicus Vitudurum was in the province of Maxima Sequanorum, created by the administrative reform of the Roman Emperor Diocletian (284-305) around 297 AD.
Zurich Airport (IATA code: ZRH, ICAO code: LSZH) is the largest and most important airport in Switzerland operated by the listed Flughafen Zürich AG.
Abroad tours for vacations that have become popular in recent years will be in great request also this year. If you do not like the tour packages and prefer to plan your own travel, Zurich will be my first suggestion for Europe destination.
Further preparations as part of our project A Cultural Journey along Roman Roads will take us from Antalya to Zurich and thus to our friends Beat and Sebnem in Wädenswil.
The most delicious products and specialties, the connoisseur, restaurant owner or amateur cook can buy at one of the countless weekly markets or in the farm shops in and around Zurich, this was announced by our friend Beat.
The following two days we wanted to spend sightseeing in downtown Zurich and in this regard had searched for accommodation in the city center of Zurich in the relevant hotel booking machines.