Parco Nazionale Svizzero e Grigioni — La Natura Alpina Selvaggia della Svizzera
Swiss National Park (Schweizerischer Nationalpark — the 174-square-kilometre protected wilderness area in the Engadin valley of eastern Graubünden, established 1914 as the first national park in the Alps and the oldest in Central Europe, accessible from Zurich in approximately 2.5 hours by train via St. Moritz): the Swiss National Park is unique in Europe in that it has been completely free of human interference (no hunting, no logging, no grazing, no construction) since 1914, creating a genuinely wild Alpine ecosystem that gives visitors the best opportunity in Switzerland to observe Alpine wildlife (red deer, chamois, ibex (steinbock), golden eagle, bearded vulture, wolf, and lynx) in an undisturbed natural setting.
Cabaret Voltaire — Dove è Nato il Dadaismo e l'Underground Culturale di Zurigo
Cabaret Voltaire (Spiegelgasse 1, Niederdorf, Zurich — the bar and performance space where the Dada movement was founded on February 5, 1916, by Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings, Jean Arp, Tristan Tzara, Richard Huelsenbeck, and Sophie Taeuber): the founding of Dada in neutral Zurich in 1916 — by a group of artists and writers who had fled the madness of World War I — was one of the defining moments in 20th-century cultural history; Dada's anti-art, anti-logic, and anti-war stance, expressed through nonsense poetry, collage, performance art, and the deliberate rejection of conventional aesthetics, directly influenced Surrealism, Pop Art, Conceptual Art, Punk, and virtually every subsequent avant-garde movement in the 20th century.
Monte Uetliberg — La Montagna Locale di Zurigo e il Panorama Alpino
Uetliberg (the 871-metre mountain immediately southwest of central Zurich — Zurich's 'local mountain' (Hausberg), accessible in 25 minutes by the S10 train from Zurich Hauptbahnhof to the Uetliberg station at 869 metres): the Uetliberg summit (with its 50-metre observation tower, the Uto Kulm Hotel, and the extensive ridge walk south along the Albiskette ridge to Felsenegg) provides the finest panoramic view of Zurich and the Alpine arc — on clear days the entire Alpine chain from Säntis to Mont Blanc is visible from the observation tower.
Cucina Svizzera a Zurigo — Fonduta, Raclette, Rösti e Cioccolato Svizzero
La cultura gastronomica di Zurigo riflette la straordinaria posizione della Svizzera come uno dei paesi più ricchi e sofisticati in materia alimentare del mondo, con una tradizione culinaria plasmata dall'eredità casearia alpina, dalle influenze francesi, tedesche e italiane, e dal ruolo della città come centro finanziario cosmopolita.
Città Vecchia di Zurigo, il Grossmünster e il Lago di Zurigo
Zurigo — la città più grande della Svizzera e la capitale finanziaria del paese, costantemente classificata tra le prime 3 città al mondo per qualità della vita — è costruita intorno all'estremità nord del lago di Zurigo e del fiume Limmat, con la città vecchia medievale e il Grossmünster come monumenti principali.
Bahnhofstrasse, il Kunsthaus e il Quartiere dei Musei di Zurigo
La Bahnhofstrasse — la strada principale di Zurigo, di 1,4 km, dalla Hauptbahnhof al lago, la strada commerciale più cara d'Europa continentale — porta a sud verso il lago e a est verso il Kunsthaus Zurigo, il più grande museo d'arte della Svizzera e una delle migliori collezioni d'arte moderna in Europa.
Cascate del Reno e Sciaffusa — La Cascata Più Grande d'Europa
Le Cascate del Reno (Rheinfall) — la cascata più grande d'Europa per volume d'acqua, a 30 km a nord di Zurigo e a 30 minuti in treno — sono uno degli spettacoli naturali più impressionanti della Svizzera, con il Reno che si getta 23 metri su una piattaforma calcarea di 150 metri di larghezza.
Gita in Barca sul Lago di Zurigo e Rapperswil — La Città delle Rose
The Lake Zurich boat trip (from the Bürkliplatz in central Zurich south along the entire length of the lake to Rapperswil — the medieval town at the southern end of the lake known as the 'City of Roses' for its rose garden on the castle hill, 1.5-2 hours each way by scheduled lake steamer): the Zürichsee boat services (operated by ZSG — Zürichsee-Schifffahrtsgesellschaft, with a fleet of historic Belle Époque paddle steamers and more recent motor vessels) are one of the most pleasant ways to experience Lake Zurich and the surrounding landscape of rolling hills, vineyard slopes, and the distant Alps.
Street Parade, Cultura Techno e la Vita Notturna di Zurigo
Zurich Street Parade (the annual techno music parade held on the second Saturday of August along the Zurich lakefront, established 1992 by Daniel Bähler and Marek Krynski — the largest techno music event in the world by attendance, with approximately 900,000 participants): the Street Parade transforms the Zurich lakefront (from Bürkliplatz east along the Utoquai to Bellevue) into a 1.8-kilometre outdoor dance floor, with approximately 30 decorated 'love mobiles' (the parade floats, each an enormous sound system with its own DJ performing continuous techno music) moving slowly along the route followed by dancing crowds.