City Tours

Two coffee bars: Fumare and Non fumare offering panini and antipasti. Events and bar service are offered in this former teller section of a bank. In the summer, there is seating outdoors on the lively and busy boulevard.

During a walking tour tailor-made to suit your requirements, you can get to know the picturesque, twisting alleyways of Basel's Old Town, one of the best preserved in Europe. You decide on the meeting point, the time, the duration and the destination. During the tour you will be told about the areas of interest of your choice, for example art, music, architecture and many others.

Basel's modern face is defined by buildings designed by international and national architects such as Mario Botta, Herzog & de Meuron or Renzo Piano. Whether between Aeschenplatz and St. Alban-Tal, or from the Richard Meier Building via the train station to Aeschenplatz, between Heuwaage and Spitalstrasse or in Kleinbasel: Modern architecture is an exciting theme in this city.

You are bound to find this special part of Basel really enchanting. Between the St. Alban Gate, the Kunstmuseum and the Rhine, you will find a district full of romantic atmosphere. Narrow alleyways and streams where the past and the present meet in the most charming way: traces of traditional crafts such as the mediaeval paper mill, early industrial buildings, old half-timbered houses, side by side with modern architecture by Diener & Diener and Michael Alder, the Museum of Modern Art and remnants of the city walls.