Historic hotels

With its cosy, romantic atmosphere, its warm and genuine welcome and its deeprooted Swiss hospitality, this much-loved hotel has long been the top address in the city.

Opened in 1930 on the sunny plateau of Crans-Montana, high above the Rhone valley, the Hotel Bella Lui is now recognised as an outstanding example of Modernist architecture.

Named Historic Hotel of the Year for 2008 by Icomos (the International Council on Monuments and Sites), the Schatzalp was built in art nouveau style. The novelist Thomas Mann describes it in “The Magic Mountain”.

The 'Bären' was declared a historic restaurant under the patronage of UNESCO and comprises 3 distinct parts. The lovingly furnished hotel, our restaurant with its rustic, comfortable dining rooms and the modern seminar centre.

Not far from Zürich, located on the River Rhine in the picturesque little town of Eglisau, is the Gasthof Hirschen, a listed building whose history stretches back to the 16th century.

St. Peter’s Island is the jewel of Lake Biel/ Bienne. It was formed in the last Ice Age, when the Rhone glacier reached as far as the Jura.

Just one hour from Zürich, set in the magnifi - cent mountain scenery of Flims-Laax, lies a unique, self-contained holiday world, set in the most extensive hotel grounds in the whole of Swit zerland.

The Hotel Paxmontana, built in 1896 in art nouveau style, stands on a hilltop in idyllic Flüeli-Ranft, where St. Nicholas of Flüe lived and worked.

This Jugendstil building from the days of the great hotel pioneers is still one of Entlebuch’s great magnets. The rooms are furnished in rustic style. While the Maag family of proprietors cultivates a warm and friendly atmosphere, the chef de cuisine treats guests to delicious regional and seasonal specialities.

The first historical mention of the Gyrenbad baths is in the Zürich tax register of 1464. The present structure dates from the 17th century.