Category: Swiss Heritage
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Swiss Heritage’s Most Beautiful Views Guidebook
SWISS HERITAGE is back at it again, having just published another pocket-sized booklet in its extremely popular “Most Beautiful” series, focusing this time on Switzerland’s top 50 panoramas.
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Swiss Heritage’s Historic Trails
THE Swiss Heritage Society — (Schweizer Heimatschutz / Patrimoine Suisse) dedicates itself to preserving Swiss culture in the shape of its buildings and national monuments as well as its open spaces, including parks and walking trails. IF, like me, you enjoy combining walking and discovering landscapes, architecture, history and local culture, then you’ll enjoy the Society’s…
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Meyrin’s award-winning Alpine Botanical Garden
EVERY year since 1998, the Swiss Heritage Society recognises one garden in Switzerland for its outstanding achievements in the garden arts, placing as much value on efforts to conserve and maintain valuable historic green spaces as it does on the creation of new, contemporary ones. On Saturday, 18 May, the Society awarded its Schultess Prize,…
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Switzerland’s Loveliest Cafés and Tea Rooms, 2nd edition
IF coffee culture and architecture are among your passions, then search out the best of both in one spot with the revised, 2nd edition of the Swiss Heritage Society booklet “Switzerland’s Loveliest Cafés and Tea Rooms”. In recent years, there’s been a revival of coffee and tea houses not only as places to enjoy a stimulating…
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Swiss Heritage adds “Switzerland’s Loveliest Islands” to its collection of handy touring booklets
THINK of Switzerland and what comes to mind are mountains, pastures and lakes, but islands? Not really. Yet Swiss Heritage’s latest addition to its “Switzerland’s Loveliest” brochure collection introduces 33 islands — both big and small, natural and man-made — that dot the country’s lakes and waterways and traverse national borders.
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