Switzerland

Switzerland

Visit the Alprose Chocolate Factory Museum near Lugano, Switzerland

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Alprose Chocolate Factory

The Alprose chocolate factory with museum is widely advertised in the Ticino tourism industry but many may find visiting it rather disappointing. The Alprose chocolate factory with museum is located near Lake Lugano in the Swiss canton Ticino. Visitors can see the working chocolate factory on weekdays with a small museum explaining more of the … Read more

Visit the Ballenberg Open-Air Museum of Swiss Rural Architecture

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Half-timbered house in theBallenberg Swiss Open Air Museum

The Ballenberg open-air museum in Switzerland has more than 100 rural houses in a huge park with farm animals and traditional industry demonstrations. The Ballenberg Freilichtmuseum is a fantastic day-trip destination near Brienz in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland. In a 66-hectare park, over a hundred rural Swiss dwellings have been relocated. Many traditional … Read more

Cheap Flights to Bern Belp Airport BRN in Switzerland

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SkyWork Planes at Flughafen Bern Belp (BRN)

Direct flights to Bern-Belp Airport (BRN) allow travelers from London, Paris, Amsterdam, Munich and other European cities to fly to Bern without having to transit through Zurich, Geneva, or Basel Airports.

SkyWork Planes at Flughafen Bern Belp (BRN)
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Bern-Belp Airport (BRN) is very conveniently located for travelers to the Swiss capital. The airport is only minutes from downtown and enjoys some of the shortest check-in times in Europe. Air France flies to Bern from Paris-Orly, Lufthansa from Munich, and SkyWork from Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Rome, Vienna and many other European destinations. Well over 100 destinations can be reached through connection flights on Lufthansa and Air France from Bern offering a real alternative to flying via Zurich, Geneva, or Basel airports in Switzerland.

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Vincent van Gogh Landscapes Exhibition, Basel

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Large Special Collection of Impressionist Paintings in the Kunstmuseum, Switzerland

Vincent van Gogh’s Landscapes Paintings Special Exhibition in the Kunstmuseum, Basel will be one of the greatest temporary art gallery shows in Europe 2009.

Blumenbeete in Holland, Vincent van Gogh April 1883, © National Gallery of Art Washington
Blumenbeete in Holland, Vincent van Gogh April 1883, © National Gallery of Art Washington

The Vincent van Gogh – Between Earth and Heaven: the Landscapes will be one of the best temporary art collections in Europe in 2009. The Kunstmuseum Basel (Art Museum) will host the Vincent van Gogh – Zwischen Erde und Himmel: Die Landschaften exhibition from April 26 to September 27, 2009. On display will be 70 Vincent van Gogh landscape paintings as well as more landscape paintings by Van Gogh’s contemporaries including French Impressionist and Fauvist painters.

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