Zurich

When people mention the world’s most expensive city, Zurich, the city consistently ranks in the top 3. But in addition to the developed economy and perfect infrastructure, only a few people know about Einstein’s university---the world famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and Zurich University, which are located here.

Release time : 2016-05-17 12:47:20

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City Introduction

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When people mention the world’s most expensive city, Zurich, the city consistently ranks in the top 3. But in addition to the developed economy and perfect infrastructure, only a few people know about Einstein’s university---the world famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and Zurich University, which are located here. Zurich is also the origin of Dadaism during the beginning of last century. Although it is the metropolitan in Switzerland, Zurich is a small village both in terms of its size and population when compared to the rest of Europe. Comparing to the big cities of neighboring countries, such as Paris, Berlin, it is absolutely not as large as them. Such a concentrated city has not denied its charm, but demonstrated its own personality with its unique opportune.

The narrow sense of Zurich refers to Zurich city (not to be confused with the state of Zurich, Zurich city is the capital of Switzerland). Many people mistakenly think that Zurich is the capital of Switzerland. Indeed, until 1848 Zurich gave place to Bern---a beautiful city located in the south of Zurich that takes about one hour by car. Zurich is the largest city as well as economic and commercial center in Switzerland. The main tourism attractions of Zurich are concentrated near Bahnhofstrasse, which is not far from the Central railway station as well as the Limmat River. Switzerland is a mountainous country, while walking in the city of Zurich you may encounter many mini hillsides up and down, one by one. The downtown area is very small, there are often direct transportation options from A to B, and it will not be more than 20 minutes by walking.

Area: 91.9 square kilometers.

Population: 1.112 million

Local languages: German, French and Italian.

History and Culture

During the rule of the Roman Empire, Zurich belonged to Belgian Gaul province of the Empire (began in AD 90) which was the main tax point of the border separating in this