Articles tagged with "Switzerland"
Switzerland has a temperate plateau, an alpine interior and a warm Italian-speaking south, and the variable that separates them is height rather than distance. What that means in practice is that the weather on your itinerary can differ completely between two places an hour apart, and that the…
Switzerland follows Schengen area rules, so the passport tests and the ninety day allowance are the same as its neighbors'. It is not in the European Union, which changes the customs rules entirely. And it is the one country in this program whose entry page asks for proof of accommodation, proof of…
Switzerland has two genuine high seasons and they want different things from you. Winter is the ski country; July to September is the hiking, pass and lake country. The shoulder weeks between them are cheap for a reason: lifts close, passes may not be open, and mountain routes reopen on the snow…
Lavaux, Vineyard Terraces was inscribed in 2007 under criteria (iii)(iv)(v): 898 hectares with a 1,408 hectare buffer zone, running about 30 km along the north shore of Lake Geneva. UNESCO inscribed it as an outstanding example of centuries of interaction between people and their environment,…
The Old City of Berne was inscribed in 1983 under criterion (iii) alone, and covers 91.86 hectares inside a bend of the Aare. UNESCO's reason is not the individual buildings but the plan: a city founded in the twelfth century that developed over the centuries in line with an exceptionally coherent…
Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch was inscribed in 2001 under criteria (vii)(viii)(ix) and extended east and west in 2007, taking it from 53,900 to 82,400 hectares. It holds the most glaciated part of the Alps and the largest glacier in Eurasia, and UNESCO inscribed it partly for what it records about…