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Zurich city tour without Bahnhofstrasse

Zurich, Canton of Zürich, Switzerland

Zurich city tour without Bahnhofstrasse

Length3.6 mi
Elev. Gain164 ft
Est. Steps8000

Lake

Scenic views

City walk

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Introduction
Zurich city tour without Bahnhofstrasse is a 3.6 mile (8,000-step) route located near Zurich, Canton of Zürich, Switzerland. This route has an elevation gain of about 164 ft and is rated as easy. Find the best walking trails near you in Pacer App.
Startpunkt Dachterrasse Modissa 6. Stock, von dort zum Lindenhof, Sicht auf Stadt und Alpen, runter zur Limmat, Rathaus, Grossmünster, Hans Waldmann Denkmal (erster Bürgermeister 1490), zum See, dort rechts Richtung Wollishofen, Bootshafen mit Züri - Leu Denkmal, entlang Mythenquai und den Hauptsitzen der Versicherungs-Konzerne Swiss Re, Zürich und Swiss Life zur Genferstrasse mit Gründerzeit Wohnhäusern (z.B. Myhtenhof auf Nr. 21), dann via Stockerstrasse und altem botanischem Garten zum Anfang der Augustinergasse Ecke Bahnhofstrasse. Von dort ist man schnell wieder am Ausgangspunkt Uraniastrasse / Ecke Bahnhofstrasse.
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Hiltl Restaurant

Place
Hiltl Restaurant is a vegetarian restaurant in Switzerland. The restaurant holds the Guinness world record for being the oldest continuously open vegetarian restaurant in the world. The restaurant is in Sihlstrasse in Zurich.

Lindenhof

Place
The Lindenhof in the old town of Zürich is the historical site of the Roman castle, and the later Carolingian Kaiserpfalz. It is situated on the Lindenhof hill, on the left side of the Limmat at the Schipfe.In 1747, a 2nd-century Roman tombstone was discovered at the site, bearing the oldest attestation of Turīcum, the Roman era name of Zürich, as STA[tio] TURIC[ensis], at the time a tax collecting point.

Altstadt (Zürich)

Place
Die Altstadt (German for "the old town") in the Swiss city of Zürich encompasses the area of the entire historical city before 1893, before the incorporation of what are now districts 2 to 12 into the municipality, over the period 1893 to 1934. Die Altstadt approximately corresponds to the area enclosed by the former city ramparts, and is today within the administrative area of the city called Kreis 1 (District 1).

Turicum

Place
Turicum was a Galloroman settlement at the lower end of Lake Zurich, and precursor of the city of Zürich. Situated within the Roman province of Gallia Belgica (from AD 90 Germania Superior) and near the border to the province of Raetia, there was a tax-collecting point for goods traffic on the waterway Walensee–Obersee-Zürichsee–Limmat–Aare–Rhine.

Lindenhof hill

Place
The Lindenhof (lit.: courtyard of the lime) is a moraine hill and a public square in the historic center of Zürich, Switzerland. It is the site of the Roman and Carolingian era Kaiserpfalz around which the city has historically grown. The hilltop area—including its prehistoric, Roman, and medieval remains—is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.

Synagoge Zürich Löwenstrasse

Place
The Synagoge Zürich Löwenstrasse is the oldest and largest synagogue in the Swiss municipality of Zürich. In 1884 built in Moorish style, the oldest Synagogue of Zürich also houses the prayer and school house of Israelitische Cultusgemeinde Zürich (ICZ) which was founded in 1862. ICZ is a unified Jewish community having about 2,500 members, and thus the largest Jewish community in Switzerland, which since 2007 in the Canton of Zürich is recognized as a denomination, i.e.

Old Botanical Garden, Zürich

Place
The Old Botanical Garden (German: Alter Botanischer Garten) is a botanical garden and arboretum in the Swiss city of Zürich. The garden is, among the neighbored Schanzengraben moat and the Bauschänzli bastion, one of the last remains of the Baroque fortifications of Zürich, that was begun in 1642.

Urania Sternwarte

Place
Urania Sternwarte is a public observatory in the Lindenhof quarter of Zürich, Switzerland. Its name Urania refers to the muse of astronomy in Greek mythology.

Quaianlagen (Zürich)

Place
Quaianalagen (German, plural; English: quays, or quaysides; from French: des quais) or Seeuferanlagen (German, plural for lakeshore sites) on Lake Zürich (German: Zürichsee) is a series of lakefronts in Zürich. Inaugurated in 1887, the quaysides are considered an important milestone in the development of Zürich.

Schanzengraben Zürich

Place
Schanzengraben is a moat and a section of the northwestern extension of the Seeuferanlage promenades that were built between 1881 and 1887 in Zürich, Switzerland. Schanzengraben is, among the adjoint Katz bastion at the Old Botanical Garden and the so-called Bauschänzli bulwark, one of the last remains of the Baroque fortifications of Zürich.
Route Details

Length

3.6 mi

Elev. Gain

164 ft

Est. Steps

8000
Created by
Anonymous User
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