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Switzerland

Cities

Region Bern Bern is the Swiss capital most first-time itineraries skip. The UNESCO arcades, river bears, and 56-minute Zurich train make it the best rain-day city in Switzerland.
City · 202k people Geneva Tucked into the country's south-western corner, where the Alps ease into vineyards and the French language takes over, Geneva and the shores of Lake Geneva offer a different flavour of Switzerland altogether. This is the Suisse Romande, the French-speaking region, and it comes with a distinctly cosm
City · 6k people Interlaken Interlaken is not a charming Swiss village—it is a flat adventure-sports base between two lakes. Here is who should stay here and who should decamp to Wengen or Grindelwald instead.
City Lucerne If Switzerland had a postcard capital, it might well be Lucerne. Set on the shore of a lake so intricately shaped that mapmakers gave up trying to name its every arm, backed by two of the country's most famous viewpoint mountains, and stitched together by a medieval old town of painted facades and c
City · 5k people St. Moritz St Moritz and the Engadine valley are a drier, brighter Switzerland beyond the Bernese Oberland—Romansch signs, larch forests, and frozen-lake polo at 1,800 metres.
City · 6k people Zermatt Of all Switzerland's mountains, none is as instantly recognisable as the Matterhorn, its near-perfect pyramid rising above the car-free village of Zermatt. For Hong Kong travellers, a few days here deliver the quintessential Alpine experience: mountain railways, high viewpoints, world-class trails a
City · 415k people Zürich Zurich rewards more than a single jet-lagged night. From Niederdorf evening buzz to lakefront swims, here is why the arrival city earns two days before you rush to the Alps.