Zurich Old Town Walking Tour
Small-group walk through the old town on both banks of the Limmat - the church where the Swiss Reformation started, Chagall's windows, the Roman hill, and the bar where Dada was invented.
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Duration 2.5 hours
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Meet on location
Children must be with an adult
Ages 6 and older
Where you'll go
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- The Chagall windows in the Fraumunster
- the Grossmunster where the Swiss Reformation began
- the Lindenhof terrace and its Roman foundations
- Cabaret Voltaire and the birth of Dada
What to expect
Zurich is a banking city with a radical past, and the two are closer together than they look. In 1519 Huldrych Zwingli took the pulpit at the Grossmunster and began preaching straight through the Gospel of Matthew instead of the assigned readings. Within a few years the images were out of the churches, the organ was dismantled, and the Swiss Reformation had a second centre independent of Luther. The Grossmunster interior is still startlingly bare. Across the river, the Fraumunster keeps five windows made by Marc Chagall in 1970, when he was in his eighties. They are the reason most visitors come, and photography inside is prohibited. The Lindenhof, a flat terrace above the river, was a Roman customs post and then an imperial palace; nothing of either survives above ground, but the view over the rooftops explains why anyone built there. And in 1916, in a small bar on Spiegelgasse, a group of wartime refugees started an evening of nonsense poetry and called it Dada. Lenin was living four doors up the same street at the time. Around 2.5 km, level except for the short climb to the Lindenhof.
What you get
- Licensed guide (EN/DE)
- small-group format, maximum 15
- Church tower climbs
- museum entries
- food and drinks
- gratuities
Trip essentials
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- Comfortable walking shoes for cobbles
- a rain layer
- a shawl or light cover if you want to enter the churches comfortably
- water
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- Able to walk around 2.5 km on cobbles with one short climb to the Lindenhof
- shoulders and knees covered for the church interiors
- Option 2 requires climbing 187 steps in the Grossmunster tower with no lift
- children under 16 accompanied by an adult
Leave behind
- Photography inside the Fraumunster, where the Chagall windows are protected
- smoking or vaping inside either church
- drones over the old town
- cycling in the pedestrian lanes
Meeting point
Zurich Hauptbahnhof, main hall by the Niki de Saint Phalle angel, 10:00
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