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Travel to Zurich Switzerland

editor — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 13:23:00 +0000

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 area experienced great days of chivalry. When the guilds were granted equal rights with the nobility the development of Zurich into a city was enhanced. In 1351 it joined the Swiss Confederation. During the 16th century Zwingli made it one of the most important cities of the Reformed Faith. Its silk and cotton industries laid the foundations of the city’s prosperity. 63 miles from the nearest part of the mainland coast

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Sights and Attractions in Zurich Switzerland

editor — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 04:55:00 +0000

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); GroBmiinster (the city’s most important Protestant church, Romanesque, llth-13th c.); Miinsterhof (a historic old square); Rathaus (Town Hall, late Renaissance, here the cantonal and communal councils meet); St. Peter’s Church (Late Romanesque choir, Baroque nave, 1705); Schauspielhaus (Theater, one of the most renowned of the German-speaking countries); Zunfthaus zur Meisen (Late Baroque guild-house). On 4 January 1850, the British schooner Brave of Inverness was lost to the Knavestone and all hands

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Map of Zurich Switzerland

editor — Sat, 25 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

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 territory of Canada from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the monopoly at one time wielded phenomenal power. In 1869, the company sold this kingdom which measured thirty-three times the size of England to the newly formed Dominion of Canada for the sum of 300,000 pounds. limit women’s parkas are equipped with a large pouch in the back, in which they carry their babies. It is glorious to see the herds of

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