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The narrow, cobbled streets of Zürich's Old City were once home to many key figures in the Swiss Reformation. Their former residences and businesses are not open to the public, but most bear German historical markers. An easy walking tour encompasses them all.

The Zähringerplatz in front of the Prediger Church incorporates a memorial to Christopher Froschauer; across the street stands the Froschauer family's 16th-century print house. Froschauer printed many of Zwingli's texts; in 1535 the printer published the first English Bible in Europe, the same Zürich Bibles that traveled with the Pilgrims to the New World. Follow Predigergasse to 5 Neumarkt, the former house of Konrad Grebel who, along with Felix Manz, founded Anabaptism. Walk along Neumarkt and south on Münstergasse to the Zwingliplatz, across from the Grossmünster, where Zwingli's successor Heinrich Bullinger lived in 1536. Successive generations of Grossmünster ministers lived there up until 1833.

Within view of the Zwingliplatz at the corner of Neustadtgasse and Kirchgasse is the Haus zur Sul, the residence of Zwingli himself from 1522-25. If you follow Neustadtgasse south to 8 Trittligasse, you'll find "Zum Friesenberg", the home of Zwingli's widow and children from 1533-39. Follow Trittligasse west to the Limmat Riverbank. Beside the Wasserkirche stands the Zwingli Monument, depicting a rather stern-looking Reformer with his Bible and a sword.

Cross the Limmat River by way of the Rathausbrücke. Head north along Schipfe until you arrive at the water-level marker where, in 1527, Felix Manz was executed by drowning for preaching Anabaptist theology.

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