Zürich City Private Walking Day Trip from Basel

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

• 1

  Start your tour with the one hour train ride on the intercity train to Zürich

  1 hour • Admission ticket included
• 2
  Zurich HB

  Zürich Hauptbahnhof (often shortened to Zürich HB, or just HB; Zürich Main Station or Zürich Central Station) is the largest railway station in Switzerland. Zürich is a major railway hub, with services to and from across Switzerland and neighbouring countries such as Germany, Italy, Austria, and France. The station was originally constructed as the terminus of the Spanisch Brötli Bahn, the first railway built completely within Switzerland.

  10 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 3

  The Lindenhof, in the old town of Zürich, Switzerland, is the historical site of the Roman castle, and the later Carolingian Kaiserpfalz. It is situated on Lindenhof hill, on the left side of the Limmat at the Schipfe

  10 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 4

  The Fraumünster is a church in Zürich which was built on the remains of a former abbey for aristocratic women which was founded in 853 by Louis the German for his daughter Hildegard.

  15 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 5

  The Grossmünster is a Romanesque-style Protestant church in Zürich, Switzerland. It is one of the four major churches in the city (the others being the Fraumünster, Predigerkirche, and St. Peterskirche). Its congregation forms part of the Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Zürich

  10 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 6

  The Niederdorf was the least developed part of the medieval city

  20 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 7
  Old Town

  Spend your lunchbreak at one of the restaurants in the old town of Zürich

  1 hour • Admission ticket not included
• 8

  Bürkliplatz is a town square in Zürich, Switzerland. It is named after Arnold Bürkli, and is one of nodal points of the road and public transportation, and of the lake shore promenades that were built between 1881 and 1887

  10 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 9

  The Zürich Opera House is an opera house in the Swiss city of Zürich. Located at the Sechseläutenplatz, it has been the home of the Zürich Opera since 1891

  5 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 10

  ETH Zurich has a world-class reputation in academia and industry, particular in science and technology. It regularly ranks among the top three to five universities in Europe and one of the top 15 to 20 globally

  15 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 11
  Limmatquai

  Limmatquai is a street in the Swiss city of Zürich. It is named after the Limmat, and it follows the right-hand (eastern) bank of that river for about 1 kilometre (0.6 mi) through the Altstadt, or historical core, of the city. The street was once important for both road and public transportation, but today sections of it form a pedestrian zone shared with Zürich's trams

  20 minutes • Admission ticket included
• 12

  Paradeplatz is a square on Bahnhofstrasse in downtown Zürich, Switzerland. It is one of the most expensive pieces of real estate in Switzerland and has become synonymous with wealth and the Swiss banks, being the location of the headquarters of both UBS and Credit Suisse.

  5 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 13
  Bahnhofstrasse

  Bahnhofstrasse is Zürich's main downtown street and one of the world's most expensive and exclusive shopping avenues. In 2011, a study named the Bahnhofstrasse the most expensive street for retail property in Europe, and the third most expensive worldwide

  30 minutes • Admission ticket free
• 14
  Zurich

  board the intercity train for your return travel to Basel

  1 hour • Admission ticket free

Additional info

• Service animals allowed
• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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