Traveling Switzerland
Visiting the UNESCO heritage center of Bern
From Swiss history and medieval architecture to modern physics with Einstein.
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7 min readJun 5, 2022
The Old City (German: Altstadt) of Bern is the medieval center of the city, de facto capital of Switzerland. It is a UNESCO heritage center, and you’ll see here why.
Bern’s Old City is mostly built on a narrow hill bordered on three sides by the Aare river as it makes a turn. I took a screenshot out of Google maps, that makes these “three sides” clear:
On the right with green fonts, you see the Bear Park (Barengraben) and the Rosengarten, which I featured just a few days ago in two dedicated stories:
