Beauty of Switzerland

As a mountainous country, more than half of Swiss territory at an altitude of 1,200 meters. The lowest region is Ascona with only 196 meters altitude, while the highest point in Switzerland is the top Dufour 4634 meters. Around 100 peaks in the Swiss Alps have a height of more than 4000 meters and more than 1,800 glaciers with snow line above 2500 meters altitude. This then led to Switzerland as the famous country with mountain tourism and about 60 percent of tourism activities are in the Alps. Switzerland is famous for mountain tourism and banking business, other than products of luxury wristwatches and pocket knife quality and expensive. Swiss watch, a product which is a community pride symbol timing information, technology and high-quality art.


Traveling with Eurorail tickets you can do since the early days of Luxembourg and the Netherlands through the day enjoying the festival, stop by the ancient tradition of the Medieval era were held in the Old Town area. Luxembourg has the castles on the edge of the abyss that has a unique role of 16th century until the year 1867 in European history. This ancient region now includes one of Europe's greatest fortresses protected by UNESCO.

The journey continues to Switzerland by train in the morning with sleeperette facilities for sleeping. Public transport in Switzerland is the most convenient and timely is the electric-powered trains. The accuracy of the train schedule so typical of the quality of services known as "It is like a Swiss watch!"


Tourism information is available at each station strategic places in detail, complete and accurate, including the schedule and price and service-class variations. Each is designed with interesting information, plus maps and landscape drawings which clearly indicates the location information and the type of transportation used. For tourists for the first time to Switzerland, a tourist destination choices depend on the information obtained.

Alps are popular tourist areas in Switzerland. Go to this area, you'll pass several lakes. Interlaken is a small town situated between two lakes, Bienzersee and Thunersee. A small town with a beautiful view of the Alpine peaks, such as the Eiger, Mönch, and Jungfrau. From this city, you can choose to continue the journey to the last villages in the Alps or enjoy a tour of the lake water. Water activities are very popular attractions such as sailing and cruising to visit tourist objects along the edge of the lake while enjoying the panorama of snowy mountain peaks series from a distance.

Switzerland has hundreds of lakes are naturally formed by the folds of the mountains and the glaciers. Many important cities located on the edge of the lake, such as Zurich, Geneva, Nauchbtel, Montreux, Lausanne and Lucerne. Hiking or walking through the countryside and hills of the Alps is tourism activities of the most popular sport. There are at least 50,000 points which is the path that the network is equipped with information maps and directions are clear yellow color. This guide contains information about the destination, mileage, travel time and altitude. Restaurants and hotels scattered in various corners of rural and edge of the Alps with a variety of quality and class, starting a five-star to farmers strawhuis hut.

Each city has its own uniqueness as a tourist destination, such as Zermatt and Saas-Fee is only 12 kilometers away. Zermat offers a summer package tours and winter ski resort with Klein Matterhorn at around 3800 meters high using a cable car, the Saas-Fee offers attractive packages to use Metro trains Alps.

Had not Zermatt panorama of the Matterhorn peak and unique pursed like horns, Saas-Fee must be tough competitors as a tourist destination because it has a panorama of peaks Dom and Monte Rosa is the highest in Switzerland.

There are several areas that show no less beautiful landscape. Grinderwald who became jagged base station to the Jungfraujoch, which is the village of Murren last thing to be terminal to the Schilthorn cable car. There Sphink at Jungfraujoch meteorology research laboratory, the Schilthorn area you served a 360-degree panoramic view of the Alps or the peaks of more than 200 pieces, ranging from the Alps to the Bernse Mont Blanc in France all around you.

Geneva, international city located on the banks of the lake Lac Liman, a Mont Blanc is an Alpine peak 4807 meters high. Mont Blanc peak is actually located outside the territory of Switzerland, precisely in the small town of Chamonix in the French and Italian border. Panorama Mont Blanc peak is very attractive if you look at it from Geneva, which became the name of many restaurants, hotels, cruises. In this area that many rich people from all over the world enjoy the luxury of living in the lake water is flat and snowy peaks looming.

Every now and then enjoy the sensation and the romance worthy of the mountains in the Alps you try in this area. This paper does not quite represent it you feel when you go step your feet.

The Beauty of Lucerne

Lucerne, Lucerne, or Lucerna, all the official names, depending on what language will we use. Such interesting clues can be found if we take a trip to Switzerland, but did not take their tourist brochures.


At first the city was just a small fishing hamlet, located on the west bank of Lake Lucerne. However, since the year 840, the hamlet was named Lucaria started in the historical record. This name refers to the figure of St. Leodegar, the chaplain who founded the monastery in that place about the year 700. Gradually, and then turned into Lucaria Lucerne. From a fishing village eventually grew into large cities.

These developments occurred after the Gotthard Pass, the road was built across the mountains of the Alps, is opened. The location of this city turned into a very strategic, located on the trade route between the Rhine Valley in Southern Germany and Lombardy in northern Italy.

In the year 1332, Lucerne which was increasingly prosperous, joined the confederation of three cantons (states), the early founders of the Swiss federal state. Prosperity increasingly felt, after the next road transportation of water held.


Beautiful city on the shores of this lake even eventually also connected with the railway. This railway makes Lucerne a trading city and tourist destination.

Lucerne is overflowing with all sorts of natural beauty. With the background that show eternal snow throughout the year, and this means that during the four seasons, always seemed to decorate the top of the Alps Mountains. While the stretch of pine forest surrounding the city, combined with a very clear lake water sparkling blue.

Although located far inland in the middle of Switzerland and the European mainland, Lucerne every time fishing hundreds of thousands of travelers coming from all over the world. All beauty is equipped with a water excursion on Lake Lucerne, a lake covering 38 square miles that joined with the Lake Uri, up to the wall of steep rock hills in the Alpine region.

Oldest Wooden Bridge

One of the main tourist Lucerne is a wooden bridge that spanned the River Reuss. Bridge in the middle of the city known as The Chapel, built in 1333 and believed to be the oldest wooden bridge in the world.



For more than seven centuries, the bridge is already several times (last in 1993) ravaged by the flames. Every time a fire occurs, the local government to intervene and restore.

This bridge can always look intact and seemed to have never wavered, and felt able to survive, despite all the beams in the water for hundreds of years.

"This is the symbol of public attitudes Lucerne persistence, always timeless and want to improve themselves," said Christine, a girl guide, explained cheerfully.

Although the course of history has made some of the buildings in Lucerne starting to look older by age, the traveler can actually enjoy the classic beauty and tranquility of a society in a European inland cities.

On the other hand, Lucerne is also trying to come beautify themselves, without leaving the old. The city can show the characteristics of modern social life, complete with all kinds of perniknya.

In 1971, major fires scorch Lucerne Railway Station. In the former location of the fire, now stands the magnificent complex of buildings that are named the Luzernersaal. Blend between the concert hall, convention center, as well as art galleries.

The main building complex is a French architect, Jean Nouvel. Coupled with the design of the building by the acoustics expert from the United States, Russell Johnson.

Today, not only traces of fire had not left. The complex is then actually performed as a benchmark, reference materials and guidance in building, to build similar complexes throughout the world.

Jesuit City

Sunday morning in early July, I was awakened from sleep, by the sound of dozens of bells to the rhythm of his voice rumbling through the hard right into the hotel room. With eyes still half asleep, Christine reminded, "Lucerne is a city built by the Federation of Switzerland as an example of a Catholic town, to meet the recommendations of the Convention on Trent 1545-1563".

Not just Catholics, even in the beginning, the management of this city specifically assigned to the Jesuit Order. Thus, in Lucerne some churches present conspicuous. Every Sunday, the center turned quiet trade due to close.

"Six days we've been working, cooking is not willing to leave one day to honor our Creator?" Christine said seriously.

Lucerne society since the sixteenth century to build a special education center Jesuit and equip it with a variety of additional buildings. Peak activity they finally achieve by establishing a church dedicated to St. Francis Xavier (1506-1552). Development of special church began in 1666 and completed eleven years later.

Today, not only meaning in the history of the building is important because it commemorates one of the Catholic holy figures are well known, St. Francis Xavier, who had once worked in Malaya, Ambon, Ternate, to mainland China. For ordinary people, the church architecture is very interesting because it marks the trace of the Baroque style, which has recorded its own impression in the world of architecture.

In the book Die Kunstdenkmaler des Kantons Luzern, Adolf Reinle describes, "A building is truly a work of genius ..."

Not excessive praise. Of all the Baroque-style church building on the north and south of the Alps Mountains, the Jesuit Church in Lucerne occupies a special position. Unique shape, design built compelling, and worked with the following skills excellent detail.

Once the impression from the outside. Especially on the inside, saved a lot of ancient paintings and sculptures which are very beautiful.