EURO'08 Excursion Tips Bern

Not many cities have managed to retain their historic features quite as successfully as Bern, the capital of Switzerland.

The Kornhauskeller is one of the most magnificent dining room of Switzerland and the dimensions of the room are an impressive experience.

With approximately 4,000 pictures by Paul Klee, the famous painter, the new Zentrum Paul Klee is the largest collection of this kind worldwide.

The only museum dedicated to the Swiss Alps introduces the visitors to cultural and natural pecularities of the alpine world.

Bern's signature mountain, which towers 280 m above the city, is widely known. Culture, leisure and games are focal points on Bern's very own mountain.

The Dählhölzli Animal Park operated by the City of Berne is set in a charming landscape right on the River Aare.

Bern's most frequented swimming pool is the "Marzili". As in all other municipal pools of Bern, no entrance fee is charged for swimming.

This celebrated cheese takes its name from the valley ("Tal") of the river Emme in the canton of Bern, where production of the cheese can be traced back to the 13th century.

Do you know how Swiss people lived a long time ago? Do you know how to carve wood, to weave baskets or to spin? How to burn charcoal? Have you ever seen how bread was baked in a coal-burning stove? How cheese is fabricated? Ballenbergt shows you Switzerland as it once used to be.

The new design is very much in line with the spirit of Cailler of Switzerland. The visitor trail provides a complete immersion into the brand, its history and products.

Mt Niesen is in the Guiness Book of records not because of its perfect pyramid shape, which makes it the prototype of a mountain.

The Papiliorama is a fascinating exotic world, where various diurnal species fly around a tropical forest environment in total freedom.

The Jungfraujoch is Switzerland's most famous day trip. Travel up to Europe's highest railway station - you won't believe your eyes!

Up to 1900 years ago supposedly a terrible dragon resided in the area around Lake Thun. Its abode were the Beatus Caves, a huge cave system. Apparently not even the people living here during the Stone Ages could get rid of this beast.