Berne, Switzerland Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Of all Swiss cities, BERN is the most immediately charming. Crammed onto a steep-sided peninsula in a crook of the fast-flowing River Aare, the city's quiet, cobbled lanes, lined with sandstone arcaded buildings, have changed little in over five hundred years. The hills all around, and the steep banks of the river, are still liberally wooded. It's sometimes hard to remember that this quiet, attractive town of just 130,000 people is the nation's capital. Bern's old centre is best explored from the focal east–west Spitalgasse . As it leads away from the train station, Spitalgasse becomes … more »