basel switzerland points of interest Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/basel-switzerland-points-of-interest Mon, 05 Dec 2016 22:40:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.5 BASEL BALE http://toursmaps.com/basel-bale.html http://toursmaps.com/basel-bale.html#respond Sat, 28 Jan 2017 21:55:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=228108 BASEL (BALE) Situated on the Rhine near France and Germany, Basel is home to a large medieval quarter as well as one of the oldest universities in Switzerland graduates include Erasmus and Nietzsche. Visitors can view art from Roman times to the 20th century and be serenaded by musicians on every street comer year-round. TRANSPORTATION AND PRACTICAL INFORMATION. Basel has three train stations: the French (SNCF) and Swiss (SBB) stations on Centralbahnpl. near the Altstadt, and the German (DB) station across the Rhine. Trains leave from the SBB to: Bern (114hr. every hr. 5:50am-l 1:50pm, 34SFr); Geneva (3hr. every hr.

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]]> http://toursmaps.com/basel-bale.html/feed 0 Travel to Basel Switzerland http://toursmaps.com/travel-basel-switzerland.html http://toursmaps.com/travel-basel-switzerland.html#respond Sat, 25 Jun 2016 08:28:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=206745 HISTORY In 374 Basilea, a Roman military station, was first mentioned in the records as a bishop’s seat. In 1225 the first bridge was built across the Rhine thus laying the foundations for the center of trade and commerce. In 1460 the University of Basle was founded by Pope Pius II. The famous Erasmus of Rotterdam made it the center of humanism. In 1501 a long conflict with the House of Habsburg ended and the town joined the Swiss Confederation. The Hudson’s Bay Company In the seventeenth century, the demand for furs was so great that white men traveled everywhere

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