Zurich Photos

The Swiss National Museum in Zurich

Trams are everywhere in Zurich-not as convenient as a subway but OK to get around.

Zurich’s Old Town

Originally, we had a hotel reservation at this old hotel in Old Town but later switched to a more modern facility.

However, we did have lunch at the hotel’s restaurant; this happy immigrant from Eastern Europe was our waiter.

An upper level room at the hotel

The love locks of the Mühlesteg bridge—young couples put the locks on and throw the keys into the river.

The Zurich train station where we met our walking tour on Monday

Alfred Escher statue outside the train station—he is considered a co-founder of modern Switzerland and did much in banking, education and railroads.

Mid-afternoon nap we noticed on our walking tour

The Urania Observatory

Our walking tour leader—midway through the tour, she stopped here and filled the glasses with a bit of syrup and told us to go to a fountain to fill the remainder with pure Swiss water for a refreshing drink..

Unlike Lucerne where the major churches were Catholic, here they were Protestant. This is Grossmünster, an Evangelical Reformed Church.

St. Peter Church-originally a Catholic church, it is now an Evangelical Reformed Church.  The steeple is owned by Zurich but the rest of the church is the property of the Evangelical Reformed Church.

The fountain was erected in 1912 commemorating the brave women of Zurich who defended

the city in 1292 when most of the men were gone fighting another campaign.

Lindenhof, the only public park in Old Town Zurich

Boot cleaner outside one of the houses

French cafe on a charming, little street in Old Town Zurich

Looking back towards Old Town on a bridge crossing the Limmat River

Lenin lived here for about a year before the Russian Revolution.

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