Swiss Highlights
Painted illustration: a mountain village beside a lake, a red train in the valley

Collections

Collections

Sets of places sharing a verified recognition or membership.

The Kramgasse in Bern, lined with sandstone buildings with arcades: in the foreground the Zähringerbrunnen, a painted fountain topped with a bear in armour, and in the background the Zytglogge tower with its golden clock face and green spire.

UNESCO World Heritage

5 places shown

Aarburg seen from the bank of the Aare: the white Reformed church with two black spires stands on its rocky spur, the fortress and its long buildings occupy the ridge above, and the town's houses line the riverbank under a blue winter sky.

Best Swiss Villages members

54 places shown

Hauterive Abbey seen from a wooded slope to the south: the long white conventual buildings with brown roofs and the church spire occupy the far end of a spring meadow valley, surrounded by forest, with the abbey's gardens and farm on the right.

“The 50 most beautiful sites” (Switzerland Tourism)

80 places shown

The waterfall descends in the left half of the frame as a long white sheet plastered against a dark rock wall streaked with grass; on the right, the rocky slope rises in full sunlight toward a cloudless blue sky, and in the foreground the water breaks into rivulets between brown boulders and green tufts.

Lakes and waterfalls

20 places shown

Elevated view of Amsteg from a wooded slope: the village and its bell tower occupy the floor of the Reuss valley, the gravel-banked river crosses it, the motorway and road run along the left bank, and the Gotthard railway viaduct spans the ravine on the right, between steep slopes.

With family, no constraint reported

116 places shown

Aarburg seen from the bank of the Aare: the white Reformed church with two black spires stands on its rocky spur, the fortress and its long buildings occupy the ridge above, and the town's houses line the riverbank under a blue winter sky.

For two, a shared experience

68 places shown

Hand-colored glass-plate photograph, 1942: a woman in a 1940s dress and hat stands at the edge of a narrow path cut into the rock, at the bend of a gorge, one hand resting on the wall; below, a foaming turquoise torrent rushes between the rocks; larches and firs frame the scene on either side, with a patch of blue sky visible in the upper left.

Scenic trains and routes

4 places shown

Aarburg seen from the bank of the Aare: the white Reformed church with two black spires stands on its rocky spur, the fortress and its long buildings occupy the ridge above, and the town's houses line the riverbank under a blue winter sky.

Urban weekends

26 places shown