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The length of annual leave depends on the number of days of absence from work: 30 calendar days (22 working days, based on a 5-day workweek) if the worker was absent no more than 5 days; 24 calendar days (18 working days) if the worker was absent between 6 and 14 days; 18 calendar days (14 working days) if the worker was absent between 15 and ...
Year Date Event 1843: June: The first Schweizerisches Gesangsfest, a singing festival, was held in Zürich.: 1847: 3 November: Sonderbund War: In the midst of a political crisis, troops from Uri, a member of the Sonderbund, a separate alliance of Catholic cantons of Switzerland, seized the Gotthard Pass between the northern and southern halves of the country.
The Swiss National Day ( German: Schweizer Bundesfeiertag; French: Fête nationale suisse; Italian: Festa nazionale svizzera; Romansh: Festa naziunala svizra) is the national holiday of Switzerland, set on 1 August. Although the founding of the Swiss Confederacy was first celebrated on this date in 1891 and annually since 1899, it has only been ...
2 October. Lucerne City (only) L'Escalade. 12 December. GE (only) 1. The days around Carnival are (with the exception of very few individual municipalities) not public holidays. However, due to widely observed celebrations in the cantons mentioned, there are usually restrictions: for example, businesses might already close at noon or not open ...
Three visits to Italy, Japan, Latvia, Poland, and Switzerland. Four visits to Ukraine. Five visits to Belgium, and Germany. Nine visits to France. Ten visits to the United Kingdom. Thirty visits to the United States. World map highlighting countries visited by Justin Trudeau while prime minister, as of year-end 2022.
Tourism began in Switzerland with British mountaineers climbing the main peaks of the Bernese Alps in the early 19th century. The Alpine Club in London was founded in 1857. Reconvalescence in the Alpine, in particular from tuberculosis, was another important branch of tourism in the 19th and early 20th centuries: for example in Davos, Graubünden.
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Since 1848 the Swiss Confederation has been a federal republic of relatively autonomous cantons, some of which have a history of federation that goes back more than 700 years, putting them among the world's oldest surviving republics . The early history of the region is tied to that of Alpine culture. Switzerland was inhabited by the Helvetii ...