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Picturesque, elegant, comfortable and discrete, Bern has a particular charm.
Its historical center, coiled in a loop of Aar, preserved the primitive position of the streets dating from the medieval time.
Here the only Swiss city inscribed in the World Heritage List of UNESCO (in 1993).
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The imposing Federal Palace
Center of the authorities of the country |
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All was conceived there on a human scale.
The center, of easy access, is arranged in favour of the pedestrian.
One discovers there museums, residences patricians, fountains and small gardens preserved in spite of the price of the ground.
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The famous arcades |
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One of the numerous fountains of Bern, decorated with flowers and sculptures |
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Romantic, Bern is also a real "city in the countryside", where the splendour of the alpine decoration is never let forget.
For the great festivals, streets are decorated with flags of the corporations and those of the canton to dominant the reds and yellows.
The chimes tinkle and the city seems to vibrate of joy.
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"La tour de l'horloge"
Kramgasse street, the oldest street of Bern |
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At the same time city, Federal capital and chief town of the canton of the same name, Bern is ideally located in the middle of the country.
. It all handles the Swiss federal Parliament, banks and insurances head-offices, universities, sixty ambassies and several international agencies.
Its 127 000 inhabitants are in majority Protestants and German-speaking.
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Saint-Vincent cathedral |
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