Zürich a city among rolling hills, shining skyscrapers, and quaint traditional houses. The city is most often associated with banking and finance but, Zürich is home to a fantastic blend of culture and natural beauty...
Contrary to a generally wrongly made assumption, Zürich is not the capital of Switzerland, that honor falls to Berne. Zürich has long been known for being clean and efficient. Due to this, it has been continuously ranked as the city with the highest living standard world-wide for many years. However, only for the last fifteen years it has truly become a fascinating and worthwhile travel destination. This is mostly thanks to the liberalization of the party (more than 80 clubs are open at weekends) and gastronomy sectors (over 500 bars and more than 1500 restaurants). An increasingly cosmopolitan population has helped (every third inhabitant is a foreigner), as well, though more button-down Geneva remains Switzerland's most culturally heterogeneous city. Zürich always used to be well known for a demanding audience in opera/ballet, classical concerts, and theater. You find more than 50 museums and over 100 galeries in a inner city circle. Traditionally, the majority of all 59 movie show rooms show a diversity of international and arthouse cinema productions.
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Train
The airport lies a 12 minutes train ride from central Zurich. Trains run every few up to 12 minutes. Early in the morning and late at evenings trains run a bit less frequent. The railway station is to be found at the lowest underground Level -2 of the adjacent airport shopping center just accross the street of the arrival gates. A single ticket to Zürich Hauptbahnhof (central station) costs CHF 6.60 for 2nd class and is valid for 1 hour, a return ticket costs CHF 13.20 and is valid from the airport to the city and within the city for 24 hours. Kids under 16 pay the half fare, kids under 6 travel for free if accompanied by an adult. There are also reduced multi-day tickets for youth under 25 at the SBB ticket booth
Tram
There is also a tram line10 (colored pink) running between the airport and the city centre, a 37 minutes ride to Zurich HB, valid with the same ticket (only 2nd class necessary), though eventually gives you a better first insight into Zurich and its adjacent suburban area, since running exclusively above ground and through the streets of the communities.
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Scheduled Airlines from the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany: Air Berlin, Germanwings, Helvetic Airways, KLM, Lufhansa, Swiss Airlines