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		Beti has put together some suggested itineraries for you. You will find details of each of the highlighted sights listed further below.
	1 Day Tour	Walking Tour 1: THIS PAGE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION
	2 Day Tour	If You Have 2 Days, spend the first day as suggested above. In the morning, visit
	3 Day Tour	If You Have 3 Days, spend the first 2 days as outlined above. On the third day
	4 Day Tour	If You Have 4 Days, spend the first 3 days as outlined above. In the morning of the fourth day
	Bahnhofstrasse	Bahnhofstrasse, located in the heart of Zurich, is a square kilometer (about 25 acres) of *shopping*, including the exclusive stores along Bahnhofstrasse, previewed in the sightseeing section. Your shopping adventure might begin more modestly at the top of the street, at Bahnhofplatz. Below this vast transportation hub is a complex of shops known as Shop Ville. Most shops are open Monday through Friday from 8am to 6:30pm and on Saturday from 8am to 4pm. Some of the larger stores stay open until 9pm on Thursday, and other shops are closed on Monday morning.
	Kunsthaus Zurich (Fine Arts Museum)	One of the most important art museums in Europe, the Zurich Kunsthaus is devoted mainly to the 19th and 20th centuries, although the range of paintings and sculpture reaches back to antiquity. The museum was founded in Victorian times and was overhauled in 1976. Today it's one of the most modern and sophisticated museums in the world, both in its lighting and its display of art. Our favorite exhibits include Rodin's Gate of Hell, near the entrance, and the Giacometti wing, showing the development of this Swiss-born artist. The collection of modern art includes works by all the greats--Bonnard, Braque, Chagall, Lipschitz, Marini, Mondrian, Picasso, Rouault. The gallery owns the largest collection outside Oslo of works by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch. Two old masters, Rubens and Rembrandt, are also represented. To brighten a rainy day, come see the pictures by Cezanne, Degas, Monet, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Utrillo. address phone hours admission
	Landesmuseum (Swiss National Museum)	This museum offers an epic survey of the culture and history of the Swiss people. Its collection, housed in a Feudal-looking, 19th-century building behind the Zurich Hauptbahnhof, contains works of religious art, including 16th-century stained glass from Tanikon Convent and frescoes from the church of Mustair. Some of the Carolingian art dates back to the 9th century. The altarpieces are carved, painted, and gilded. The prehistoric section is also exceptional. Some of the artifacts are from the 4th millennium B.C. There's a large display of Roman clothing, medieval silverware, 14th-century drinking bowls, and 17th-century china, as well as painted furniture, costumes, and dollhouses of various periods. A display of weapons and armor shows the methods of Swiss warfare from 800 to 1800. There's also an exhibit tracing Swiss clockmaking from the 16th to the 18th centuries. Special exhibitions are presented twice annually, lasting between 3 and 6 months. Themes are always different; a recent one was devoted to Swiss fashion design. address phone hours admission
	Fraumünster	This church, with its slender, blue spire, is on the left bank overlooking the former pig market, Munsterhof. Munsterhof is one of the historic old squares of Zurich and is well worth a visit. A Benedictine abbey was founded at the site in 853 by Emperor Ludwig (Louis the German), the grandson of Charlemagne. His daughter became the first abbess. The present church dates from the 13th and 14th centuries, but the crypt of the old abbey church is preserved in the undercroft. The chief attractions of Fraumunster are five stained glass windows--each with its own color theme--designed by Marc Chagall in 1970. They are best seen in bright morning light. The Munster is also celebrated for its elaborate organ. The basilica has three aisles; the nave is in the Gothic style. There is no official phone number for the church. Visitors seeking information should inquire at the tourist office.
	Münsterbrücke	From Fraumünster you can cross the Münsterbrücke, an 1838 bridge that leads to Grossmünster. On the bridge is a statue of Bürgermeister Waldmann, who was beheaded in 1489 when his political enemies seized power. During his rule, the city gained influence over much of the surrounding lands.
	Grossmünster	This Romanesque and Gothic cathedral was, according to legend, founded by Charlemagne, whose horse bowed down on the spot marking the graves of three early Christian martyrs. The cathedral has two three-story towers and is situated on a terrace above Limmatquai, on the right bank. Despite the legend, construction actually began in 1090 and additions were made until the early 14th century. The choir contains stained glass windows completed in 1932 by Augusto Giacometti. (Augusto is not to be confused with his more celebrated uncle, Alberto Giacometti, the famous Swiss abstract.) In the crypt is a weather-beaten, 15th-century statue of Charlemagne, a copy of which crowns the south tower. The cathedral is dedicated to the patron saints of Zurich: Felix, Regula, and Exuperantius. In the third century, the three martyrs attempted to convert the citizens of Turicum (the original name for Zurich) to Christianity. The governor, according to legend, had them plunged into boiling oil and forced them to drink molten lead. The trio refused to renounce their faith and were beheaded. Miraculously, they still had enough energy to pick up their heads and climb to the top of a hill (the present site of the cathedral), where they dug their own graves and then interred themselves. The seal of Zurich honors these saints, depicting them carrying their heads under their arms. The remains of the saints are said to rest in one of the chapels of the Munster (cathedral). The cathedral was once the parish church of Huldrych Zwingli, one of the great leaders of the Reformation. He urged priests to take wives (he himself had married) and attacked the "worship of images" and the Roman sacrament of Mass. In 1531, Zwingli was killed in a religious war at Kappel. The hangman quartered his body and soldiers burnt the pieces with dung. The site of his execution is marked with an inscription: "They may kill the body but not the soul." In accordance with Zwingli's beliefs, Zurich's Grossmunster is austere, stripped of the heavy ornamentation you'll find in the cathedrals of Italy. The view from the towers is impressive.
	Rietberg Museum	The Rietberg contains a collection of non-European art, most of which was assembled by Baron Eduard von der Heydt and donated to the city of Zurich in 1952. The collection is housed in the former Wesendonck Villa, constructed in 1857 by a German industrialist, Otto Wesendonck. Modeled after Villa Albani in Rome, the building is located in a garden in Rieter Park and overlooks Lake Zurich. Richard Wagner came here and fell in love with the hostess, who inspired his tragic opera Tristan und Isolde. The eclectic collection was gathered from the South Sea islands, the Near East, Asia, Africa, and pre-Columbian America. Of all the treasures, our favorite is the Dancing Shiva, a celebrated Indian bronze. You will also find statues from Java, Africa, the South Sea Islands, China, and Cambodia, plus a collection of stunning Japanese prints, along with art from Tibet, pre-Columbian America, paintings from the Near East and the Far East, and a collection of Armenian and Flemish carpets.
	Foundation E. G. Bührle Collection	This collection is most popular for its French impressionist works, including those by Monet, van Gogh, Cezanne, Gauguin, Degas, Renoir, and Manet. See Picasso's The Italian Girl. The private collection also includes paintings by Rubens, Rembrandt, and Guardi. There's a limited but very special section of 24 sculptures from the Middle Ages.
	Zoologischer Garten (Zoological Garden)	One of the best-known zoos in Europe, Zurich's Zoological Garden contains some 2,200 animals of about 260 species. It also has an aquarium and an open-air aviary. You can visit the Africa house, the apå house, and the terrariums, along with the elephant house and the giant tortoise house. There are special enclosures for red pandas, otters, and snow leopards, and a house for clouded leopards, tigers, Amur leopards, and Indian lions.
	Friedhof Fluntern (Fluntern Cemetery)	James Joyce, the author of Ulysses, lived in Zurich from 1915 to 1919, at Universitatsstrasse 38. In 1941 he returned to Zurich from Paris, only a month before his death. Near his tomb is a statue depicting the great Irish writer sitting cross-legged with a book in his hand. Elias Canetti, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1981, died in August 1994; his grave lies to the left of Joyce's. The grave of Johanna Spiri (1827-1901), who wrote the famous story Heidi, is in the Central Cemetery.
	Urania Observatory	The observatory is halfway between Bahnhofstrasse and the Limmat River on Uraniastrasse. On clear days, you can look through the telescope, while on bad days the observatory doesn't open. Call in advance to find out. The observatory has been at this site since 1907. Because of its central location, you have a panoramic view not only of Zurich but of the lake and the distant Alps. You can see the stars, planets, and galaxy through a big Zeiss telescopå that weighs 20 tons.
	St. Peterskirche (St. Peter's Church)	Built in the 13th century, St. Peter's--on the left bank south of Lindenhof--is the oldest church in Zurich. It has the largest clock face in Europe--28 1/2 feet (9m) in diameter; the minute hands alone are 12 feet (almost 4m) long. Inside, the choir is Romanesque, but the three-aisle nave is baroque.
	Thomas Mann Archives	Thomas Mann, the German writer who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929 for such works as Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain, died in Kilchberg, near Zurich, in 1955. An opponent of the Nazi regime, he had lived outside Germany after 1933--in the United States and Switzerland during most of the period. The archives, located next to the university, contain manuscripts and mementos.
	Zürcher Spielzeugmuseum (Zurich Toy Museum)	This museum, in one of the oldest parts of the city, contains more than 1,200 antique toys from all over Europe. The collection is displayed on the fifth floor of a house
	Zunfthaus Zur Meisen	Across the bridge from the Wasserkirche is one of the city's famous old guild houses. It has a wrought-iron gatehouse that opens onto Münsterhof. Dating from 1752, it's a branch museum of the overstuffed Swiss National Museum. It's devoted mainly to 18th-century Swiss ceramics, the porcelain of Zurich, and several antiques. The beauty of the stuccoed rooms competes with the exhibits.
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