SPRING REPORT WEEK #15
Bears and flowers in Bern
Just crossing Bern’s main river, the Aare, and leaving behind its UNESCO heritage center,
you get to Bern’s Bears Park right at the riverside. And then walking up a small hill behind the Bears Park, you get to the Rosengarten gardens, full of flowers in spring and summer among which a selection of roses.
Come to discover the bears and flowers of Bern.
The bears park
Summarizing from here at MySwitzerland.com,
Since 1513 bears have been at home in Bern: until 1857 in the town itself, then in the bear pit, and since 2009 in the new and spacious bear park. This last place, on the banks of the Aare, stretches from the former bear pit opposite the center of Bern to the river. Visitors can get into the park to get closer to the bears and know about them. The Bear Pit used since 1857 still exists and has been listed as a federal cultural asset of national significance.
The new park is set mainly on a green hill that includes caves and a closed section of the Aare river where the bears can swim.
