Excursions - Bern (Schweizer Mittelland)

A unique animated model of the city provides insights into historic backgrounds and the multi-vision system presents Berne as it is today, and invites you to explore.

A world of water and pure pleasure: around 2,000 m2 of water areas, three giant slides and 18 pools invite you to swim, play, explore and relax.

Largest diorama exhibit in Europe: 220 showcases depicting native and exotic birds and mammals in their natural habitat. The famous "Barry", the Saint Bernard dog.

The only museum dedicated to the Swiss Alps introduces the visitors to cultural and natural pecularities of the Alpine world. The journey of discovery into the past and present of the Swiss Alps and their cultural and natural peculiarities is accompanied by videos, commented slides, multivision, info-stations, representations, and impressive originals.

The tower of the Münster offers an opportunity to look down onto the roofs of the federal city from dizzying heights.

Lots of fun on the Gurten, Bern's signature mountain.

Invigorate body and spirit - in the largest natural brine baths in Switzerland.

This is the city's most impressive late-Gothic building. The three-aisled basilica towers above the roofs of the Old Town. The building was started in 1421. The vantage point of this masterpiece is located 344 steps above the entrance in the 100-meter-high cathedral spire (highest cathedral tower of Switzerland). Its promiment characteristic is the portal, on which the depiction of the last judgment can be admired.

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

Archeological walk with information panels about the character, age and importance of the Celtic and Roman settlement and excavations (combined with a didactic forest trail). The Enge peninsula north of the city of Bern has been known for more than 200 years as a discovery site of Roman artifacts.