zurich switzerland
Text by Chris Pudjiastuti, executive summary by Darmansjah
Zurich, Switzerland, the city covering approximately 92 square kilometers with a population of about 385,000 souls was far from being chaotic. In addition to its relatively small population of his town, transportation is generally very adequate. Trains and trams to public transportation arteries linking the citizens of Zurich from one place to another.
Options on the train as the main means of public transport has made a new man first set foot in Zurich had no trouble traveling to many places. Tram ticket easily obtained through the ticket machines at bus stops, tram stops.
Signage and the tram numbers where we can change according to location of the tram was about to target map is also available in easy to understand. In addition to using the numbers, the appearance of various colors on the lines of tram route speeding tram passengers can choose according to its purpose.
Hauptbahnhof
When in the city of Zurich people could choose the tram, then to travel to a number of other cities in Switzerland, one could rely on the train. The city’s main railway station, the Hauptbahnhof (Zurich HB), located in downtown. In addition to passing the ticket machine, train passengers can also get tickets at the ticket window is available in several places in the area of the station.
Opened in 1847, Hauptbahnhof, as written in Zurich in your pocket, undergoing refurbishment in 1990 even without significant changes in the visible front. Zurich HB is also connected to the tramway in the city. Through this station, people could travel by train to various places in neighboring Switzerland, like Germany, Italy, Austria, and France.
zurich tram
In addition to operate starting at 5:00 until 1:00 in the morning, train passengers can also shop around 200 stores in the area of this station. In addition to restaurants, here there are also many food and beverage stores. There is also a supermarket, clothing stores, bags and suitcases, souvenirs, to specialty shops that sell cigarettes, cigars and tobacco. If a general store in Zurich is closed on Sundays, you can walk to the Zurich HB to remain open.
Affordable and convenient
Schweizerisches Landesmuseum
From Zurich HB station, people can walk comfortably into one of more than 50 museums in Zurich, a city split the Limmat River. Schweizerisches Landesmuseum, for example, displays the history of Switzerland began in the 1400’s, when people are believed to be witches were burned alive, until the modern era: the era of banking.
One of the highlights of this museum, although wearing the old buildings, modern interior arrangement. Wall in the museum, for example, wearing bright orange color in some parts. Some of the other walls were painted white and used as a display for visitors who want to enjoy the story of the war until the industrial revolution, through the film is available only by touching the hands on the monitor.
All sectors that support the Swiss appear in this museum. Not only those who play a role in the political field such as Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531) in the reform of Switzerland, but also the image of entrepreneurs displayed in this museum. For example, Henri Nestlé (1814-1890) and Julius Maggi (1846-1912), until the present gait tennis player, Roger Federer.
These products also appear in this country one of the rooms Landesmuseum. Here visitors can see, among other things, how the transformation Ovomaltine chocolate products (since 1865) until now, Nestle (1867), with different developmental types of chocolate products and Tobler (1899).
Also displayed a variety of textile products, chemical industry, to design the interior product of 1895. The history of media also exhibited, as one of Europe’s influential newspaper, the Neue Zurcher Zeitung, published in Zurich in 1780 by Salomon Gessner. All that comes with written information in four languages, namely German, French, Italian, and English.
Another room displays ranging from regulations and documents about Swiss banking system through the development of forms and materials safes as completeness. Unfortunately, for security reasons, visitors are not allowed to photograph the spaces in this museum.
A room more “telling” about the way the Catholic religion to Protestant Christianity, has glass-stained glass and sound as if visitors were at the church. Even the position of women in the history of Switzerland was shown in one of the Landesmuseum, complete with mannequins dressed in appropriate time.
Still within the range that can be reached on foot from the station is the area Bahnhofstrasse Zurich HB. Among the row of shops that offer a variety of branded products such as Hermes, Mango, and Louis Vitton, in this region, among others, there is a museum hours, The Clock and Watch Museum Beyer.
Aside from being a business city, Zurich is also one tourist destination in Switzerland. Each year about one million tourists enjoying the city. Information about this city too easily we get, among others, through the booklet Zurich Guide at hotels, stations, and cafes, free too!
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