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The Basel Town Hall. The Basel Town Hall (German: Rathaus Basel, locally known as Roothuus) is a 500-year-old building dominating the Marktplatz in Basel, Switzerland. The Town Hall houses the meetings of the Cantonal Parliament as well as the Cantonal Government of the canton of Basel-Stadt.
Visitors who spend a night in a local hotel get a Basel card, which grants them free use of the city's public transportation and discounts on some activities. My boat ride, for instance, cost $12 ...
This is an alphabetical list of towns or cities (these English terms can be used interchangeably, as there is no official differentiation), which follows the FSO's definition (German: Statistische Städte 2012, French: Villes statistiques 2012), as well as places with historic town rights (h) and/or market towns (m).
Each province, municipality, city and district has a People's Committee (executive) and a People's Council (legislative) For example: People's Committee of Hanoi and People's Council of Hanoi
This is a list of municipalities in Switzerland which have standing links to local communities in other countries known as "town twinning" (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world).
In 1966 Basel-Stadt became the first German-speaking canton to allow women to vote, five years before the right to vote was extended to all Swiss women in 1971. [ 12 ] The parliament of the canton is the Grand Council , which has 100 members, who are elected for four years at a time.
The BIS Tower is located on the northeastern edge of Central Railway Square, a central transportation hub in Basel; the Basel SBB railway station is on its south side. The building stands on a square plot of land bordered by Heumattenstrasse to the west, Centralbahnstrasse to the south, and Gartenstrasse to the east.
The Federal Office for Defence Procurement, known as Armasuisse, is offering a joint cash prize of 50,000 Swiss francs, or about $57,000, for the three best entries to a new idea competition aimed ...