Category: Zurich
HISTORY The first settlers on the site of Zurich were Neolithic pile-dwellers. In 15 BC the Romans built the fortified settlement of T uricum. In the Middle Ages the …
SIGHTS Bahnhofstrasse (main shopping street, extending from the main station to the lake), Fraumiinster (a 3-aisled pillared basilica with a Gothic nave, 5 stained-glass windows by Marc Chagall, 1970); …
ZURICH The North West Company, a rival of the Hudson’s Bay Company since the late eighteenth century, finally merged with it in 1821. Owning or managing half of the …