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English: Editable Vector Map of the Zurich Switzerland in SVG format. Can be edited in the following programs: Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, InkScape Principal streets and roads, names places, residential streets and roads, road number labels, water objects, land use areas.
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Zurich often performs very well in international rankings, some of which are mentioned below: Monocle's 2012 "Quality of Life Survey" ranked Zurich first on a list of the top 25 cities in the world "to make a base within". [79] In 2019 Zurich was ranked among the ten most liveable cities in the world by Mercer together with Geneva and Basel. [80]
Bürkliplatz is a square and stop of the Zurich tram system (lines 2, 4, 8, 9, 11 and buses 161, 165), situated at the southern end of the Bahnhofstrasse, and west of the Bellevue square, with which it is connected by the Quaibrücke. The lakeshore quay connecting the square with Lake Zurich is named General-Guisan-Quai, after Henri Guisan.
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, Graubü
Bow and crossbow shooting was probably one of the most important leisure activities on the Lindenhof. Each Zurich guild had its own stone table, and the costumed guild members met on Sechseläuten for dinner, described by Gottfried Keller in his poem Ein Festzug in Zürich (a procession in Zurich, 1856). [8]
Map of the area from the Murerplan of 1576, showing absence of the Limmatquai. In the 12th and 13th century, the houses alongside the east bank of the Limmat were built directly on the shore, and were accessed from Oberdorfstrasse and Niederdorfstrasse, two streets on their landward sides. Over the course of the following centuries, the Limmat ...
One such site, Zurich–Enge Alpenquai, is located on the Lake Zurich shore in Enge, a locality of the municipality of Zurich. It was neighbored by similar settlements at Kleiner Hafner and Grosser Hafner on what was then a peninsula in the effluence of the lake, within an area of about 0.2 km 2 (0.077 sq mi) within the present city of Zurich.