Themaroute » Kunst & architectuur

The art gallery of canton Aargau is located in the regional capital, Aarau, in a building expanded by the architects Herzog & de Meuron in 2003.

The Roman spa city of Baden has kept much of its earlier appearance, with the old town stamped by late-Gothic style.

Forty museums in only 40 sq. km - no other Swiss city has such a concentration of cultural sensations.

To the north, the gateway to Italy. To the south, the key to the Alps. The location of Ticino`s capital made the Lombardic-style city a constant bone of contention between the Dukes of Milan and the Swiss.

History has been and still is being written in the Bundeshaus (Federal Parliament). Long ago, Goethe and Casanova were captivated by the charm of Switzerland`s capital, with its 6km of arcades.

With approximately 4,000 pictures by Paul Klee, the famous painter (40% of the total body of his works), the new Zentrum Paul Klee is the largest collection of this kind worldwide.

In 2004, the Swiss Heritage Society awarded the city of Biel/Bienne the Wakker Prize.

The gleam of the three onion-domed towers of the Baroque Stockalper Palace in Brig, each one named after the "wise kings" Kaspar, Melchior and Balthasar, is visible from afar.

Chur, the "gateway to Graubünden", is proud of its 5000-year-old cultural history.

Fribourg boasts a university, churches, a monastery complex and a Gothic cathedral: this medieval city on the River Saane, founded by the Dukes of Zähringen in 1157, is a cosmopolitan mini-metropolis with many aspects.