Switzerland travel tips and stories. Vacations ideas, cruises spa and resorts

The European championship in Austria and Switzerland and the Football emotions started. 16 teams divide the sympathies and the support of the fans, not only on the old continent and in the whole world. You can choose your favorite team among Switzerland, Czech Republic, Portugal, Turkey, Austria, Germany, Croatia, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Russian Federation, France, Netherlands, Romania, Poland, Greece. While you are waiting the Final on 29.06.2008, you can learn some interesting information about this year’s championship and the Europa’s football stadiums.

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Greulich is a very small cosy hotel located in Zurich. The place is very personal and has only 18 rooms.

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Wengen, situated in the ski center Kleine Scheidegg – Mannlichen with 110 km of predominantly easy to medium-difficulty pistes, is one of the most attractive and popular winter sport villages in Switzerland. Wengen was first mentioned in official documents in 1268. The origin of the name is unknown. The Swiss ski resort is part of the Jungfrau Top Ski Area and has direct access to 112km of downhill skiing, with 33 individual pistes, served by 19 ski lifts. Every year in January, Wengen hosts the Lauberhorn Downhill Ski Race – surely the most spectacular race of the whole world cup circuit.

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The city of Geneva has a dual life. On the one hand you have all these international organizations, its peaceful atmosphere, its friendly and civilized people, and its swans and ducks on the lake. On the other hand, you have its kinky night-life. Geneva is world famous for its red light district and its cabarets. If you like nature, you will love this botanical garden. This is an arboretum with extremely varied wildlife and thousands of roses, tulips, dahlias, irises…The Geneva Botanical Gardens are world famous. They provide an oasis of fresh and calm greenery, where you can discover or rediscover this exceptional and educational place for relaxing and strolling. It is nearby the “Palais des Nations”, and it is an easy walk from the square. If you are in the city center, take tram number 13 direction “Palettes”, and get off at its final stop. “Botanicum” (a family space) is near the lake. Since 1904, these 28 hectares located on the edge of Geneva, Switzerland, offer an ideal setting for either a simple stroll or for learning.

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Lake Geneva Marathon and Adventure Races
Saturday, May 10, 2008The Geneva Marathon is an annual marathon foot-race held in Geneva, Switzerland. It draws about 5,500 participants and is held every May since its first edition in 2005. Apart from the marathon, there is also half marathon held on the same day. A time limit of six hours applies to the main event.

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Its predecessor dated from 1886, when the new hydraulic turbines on the Rhone built up excessive water pressure after the city’s craftsmen had closed the valves in their workshops and gone home. An engineer created a temporary outlet which spurted a 30m fountain to release the pressure while a reservoir system was developed, but by the time the fountain became unnecessary a few wily Genevois had caught on to its power as a tourist attraction. Then purely decorative, it was moved from the river to an exposed lakeside location, and furnished with more and more powerful pumps. It’s a big fountain that shoots straight out of the lake… it was built for a world fair there. You can see it from all around the lake, and they shine lights on it at night. The lake is beautiful to watch a sunset on, and the Swiss Alps surround it. Also, there is a statue of a “naked man and a horse”. Eight 9,000-watt projectors light the fountain’s majestic column in the evening as it soars skywards.

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A symbol of the Geneva, Switzerland, watch industry of world renown, the famous flower clock, located at the edge of the Jardin Anglais (English Garden), was created in 1955. It is a masterpiece of technology and floral art. The Flower Clock is the pride and glory of the city, honouring the importance of the watchmaking industry as well as the skilfulness of its gardening team. It changes every year to accommodate the seasonal colours and requires around 6500 flowers, trimmed to the millimetre by horticultural specialists. Formerly only decorative with its sole dial comprising over 6,500 flowers, the new millennium provided it with decisive artistic dimensions thanks to the ingenuity of the gardeners of the Service of Green Spaces and the Environment.

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The Swiss Tuning Show, which will take place at GENEVA PALEXPO on 16th and 17th June 2007 stands out from numerous events that have already been dedicated to automobile tuning in Switzerland and Europe by virtue of its concept and infrastructure providing an indoor venue: the 36,000 m2 of halls 5 and 6 at GENEVA PALEXPO. Geneva is now well among the leading European expo cities. Though Frankfort and Paris have a larger surface area available, GENEVA PALEXPO offers contiguous construction of all seven halls meaning visitors do not have to go between pavillions in the open as in Paris. A Committee made up of well-known figures from the world of tuning and professional event organisers will make sure that it is a success.

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Vitra, the furniture company, have turned to a variety of major architects to design the buildings making up their manufacturing site near Basel, close to the German/Swiss/French border. As well as Frank Gehry, Alvaro Siza, Nicholas Grimshaw, Tadao Ando and Zaha Hadid are all represented, in a cross between an industrial plant and a model village. In the late 1980s, a palpable shift in Gehry’s aesthetic occurred with his first European commission: the design of two buildings for the manufacturing center of the Vitra furniture company. Gehry was asked to create a unified plan for a factory building that would sit adjacent to Nicholas Grimshaw’s 1981 factory, as well as a small museum to house company CEO Rolf Fehlbaum’s collection of approximately two hundred Modern and contemporary chairs.

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The Jungfraujoch is the lowest point on the mountain ridge between Munch and Jungfrau, at 3471 m. It is just above this location that the mountain station of Jungfraujoch is located, which at an elevation of 3,454 metres is the highest railway station in Europe. Whether you just want to enjoy the unique alpine scenery or make the Jungfraujoch the base for your climbing tours, you will find the dining opportunity that suits you best.

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