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Hotel Park Mattenhof,

Hotels in Geneva,
Hotel Le Warwick, Hotel Strasbourg Univers, Hotel Montbrillant, Hotel Les Nations,
Cristal Hotel, Geneva International Terminus, Hotel Edelweiss, Hotel Swissotel Geneve Metropole, Hotel InterContinental Geneve, Hotel Du Midi Rive Droite, Hotel Sofitel Geneva, Hotel le Richemond, Hotel Hilton Geneva Noga, Hotel Beau Rivage, Hotel D Angleterre, Hotel Suisse,

Hotels in Lucerne,
Hotel Palace Luzern, Hotel Des Alpes, Hotel Drei Könige, Hotel Cascada, Hotel Flora,
Magic Hotel, Hotel Waldstatterhof, Hotel Krone, Best Western Art Deco Hotel Montana ,
Monopol Swiss Q Hotel, NH Hotel, Hotel Radisson SAS, Hotel Weisses Kreuz,
Hotel Schweizerhof, Seehotel Kastanienbaum, Seehotel Hermitage, Astoria Hotel,Europe Grand Hotel, Hotel Seeburg Luzern, Best Western Hotel des Balances,


Hotels in Berne,
Hotel Schweizerhof, Hotel City Am Bahnhof, Savoy Hotel, Ador Sorell Hotel, Hotel Allegro Grand Casino Kursaal, Sternen Hotel,Metropole Swiss Q Hotel,
Best Western Hotel Baeren,Nydeck Park Inn Club Hotel, Belle Epoque Hotel,

Hotels in Locarno,
Muralto Hotel, Dell'Angelo Hotel, Belvedere Hotel, Du Lac Hotel, Rosa Seegarten Hotel, Best Western Hotel Dellavalle ,Reber au Lac Hotel, Grand Hotel Locarno, Hotel Rio Garni, Ramada-Treff Hotel Arcadia ,Ramada Treff Hotel La Palma au Lac,

Hotels in Lausanne,
Hotel Au Lac, Hotel Victoria, Hotel A la Gare, Hotel Crystal, Elite Hotel, Le Chateau d'Ouchy, City Hotel, Hotel Jan, Movenpick Hotel Lausanne, Best Western Mirabeau, Hotel Bellerive,Beau Rivage Palace, Hotel Pre Fleuri,


Hotels in Zermatt,
Hotel Sarazena, Hotel Excelsior, Style Hotel Biner, Hotel Butterfly, Hotel Simi,Hotel La Ginabelle, Hotel Pollux, Alpen Resort, Schlosshotel Tenne,Seiler Hotel Monte Rosa, Seiler Hotel Mont Cervin Palace, Grand Hotel Zermatterhof,Matterhornblick Hotel, Antares Hotel, Christiania Hotels Zermatt, Walliserhof Swiss Q Hotel, Hotel Eden,

Hotels in Zurich,
Hotel Seefeld, Hotel Ruetli, Hotel Montana, Hotel Glockenhof, Hotel Engimatt, Comfort Inn Royal, Hotel Zurichberg, Hotel Schweizerhof, Hotel Baur au Lac, InterContinental Zurich,Marriott Hotel Zurich, Dolder Grand Hotel, Dolder Waldhaus Hotel, Hotel Leoneck, Storchen Zum Hotel, Hotel Wellenberg,

Hotels in Lugano,
Hotel de la Paix, Holiday Inn, Hotel Lugano Dante, International Au Lac,
Hotel Federale, Continental Park, Hotel Albatro, Delfino Hotel, Grand Hotel Villa Castagnola, Eden Grand Hotel, Splendide Royal Hotel, Hotel Ticino, Excelsior Swiss Q Hotel, Suitenhotel Parco Pardiso,


Hotels in St. Moritz,
Hauser Swiss Q Hotel, Hotel Steinbock, Hotel Soldanella, Hotel Laudinella, Hotel Baren, The Carlton Hotel, Suvretta House, Best Western Steffani Hotel, Hotel Waldaus, Hotel Europa, Hotel Monopol Grischuna, La Margna Swiss Q Hotel,
Best Western Albana Hotel, Kulm Hotel, Crystal Hotel, Monopol Swiss Q Hotel,

Hotels in Montreux,
Hotel Helvetie, Eurotel Riviera, Suisse Majestic Hotel, Grand Hotel Excelsior Biotonus, Golf Rene Capt Swiss Q Hotel, Royal Plaza, L'Ermitage, Villa Toscane Swiss Q Hotel, Hotel Eden Au Lac, Le Montreux Palace,

Hotels in Chur,
Hotel Romantik Stern, Posthotel Garni, Hotel Freieck, Drei Konige,

Hotels in Engelberg,
Treff Hotel Regina Titlis, Hotel Terrace, Hotel Crystal,

Hotels in Grindelwald,
Hotel Derby, Hotel Eiger, Hotel Hirschen, Hotel Kreuz & Post, Hotel Residence,


Hotels in Saas-fee,
Hotel Metropole Saas Fee, Hotel Imseng, Hotel Dom ,


Hotels in Wengen,
Hotel Caprice,
Hotel Belleview,

Hotels in Crans Montana,
La Prairie,
St. George,

Hotels in Appenzell,
Hotel Lowen,
Hotel Adler,


Hotels in Leukerbad,
Walliserhof,
Parkhotel Zayetta,
Lindner Hotels,
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Switzerland (German: Schweiz French: Suisse, Italian: Svizzera, Romansh: Svizra, officially the Swiss Confederation) is a landlocked alpine country of roughly 7.6 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km². Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called cantons. Berne is the seat of the federal authorities, while the country's economic centres are its three global cities, Geneva, Basel and especially Zürich. Switzerland is one of the richest countries in the world by per capita gross domestic product. Zürich and Geneva have respectively been ranked as having the first and second highest quality of life in the world.



Switzerland is bordered by Germany to the north, France to the west, Italy to the south and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. The country has a long history of neutrality — it has not been at war since 1815 — and hosts many international organizations, including the Red Cross, the World Trade Organization and one of the U.N.'s two European offices. However, it is not a member of the European Union. Switzerland is multilingual and has four national languages: German, French, Italian and Romansh. The country's formal name is Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft in German, Confédération suisse in French, Confederazione Svizzera in Italian and Confederaziun svizra in Romansh. The establishment of Switzerland is traditionally dated to 1 August 1291; the first of August is the national holiday.



Napoleonic era
In 1798 the armies of the French Revolution conquered Switzerland and imposed a new unified constitution. This centralised the government of the country and effectively abolished the cantons. The new regime, known as the Helvetic Republic, was highly unpopular. It had been imposed by a foreign invading army and destroyed centuries of tradition, making Switzerland nothing more than a French satellite state. The fierce French suppression of the Nidwalden Revolt in September of 1798 was an example of the oppressive presence of the French army and the local population's resistance to the occupation.

When war broke out between France and its rivals, Russian and Austrian forces invaded Switzerland. In 1803 Napoleon organised a meeting of the leading Swiss politicians from both sides in Paris. The result was the Act of Mediation which largely restored Swiss autonomy and introduced a Confederation of 19 cantons. Henceforth much of Swiss politics would concern balancing the cantons' tradition of self-rule with the need for a central government.

In 1815 the Congress of Vienna fully re-established Swiss independence and the European powers agreed to permanently recognise Swiss neutrality. The treaty marked the last time that Switzerland fought in an international conflict. The treaty also allowed Switzerland to increase its territory, with the admission of the cantons of Valais, Neuchâtel and Geneva. Switzerland's borders have not changed since.

Science, technology, and education

Education in Switzerland is very diverse because the constitution of Switzerland delegates the authority for the school system to the cantons. There are both public and private schools, including many private international schools. The minimum age for primary school is about six years in all cantons. Typically children choose their school depending on whether they want to speak French, German or Italian. Primary school continues until grade four or five, depending on the school. At the end of primary school (or at the beginning of secondary school), pupils are separated according to their capacities in several (often three) sections. The fastest learners are taught advanced classes to be prepared for further studies and the matura, while students who assimilate a little bit more slowly receive an education more adapted to their needs.


The "Zentrum" campus of the ETH Zürich, the most prestigious university in Switzerland, where Albert Einstein studied.There are 12 Universities in Switzerland, ten of which are maintained at cantonal level and usually offer a range of non-technical subjects. The first university in Switzerland was founded in 1460 in Basel (with a faculty of medicine) and has a tradition of chemical and medical research in Switzerland. The biggest university in Switzerland is the University of Zurich with nearly 25,000 students. The two institutes sponsored by the federal government are the ETHZ in Zürich (founded 1855) and the EPFL in Lausanne (founded 1969 as such, formerly an institute associated with the University of Lausanne) which both have an excellent international reputation. In 2008, the ETH Zurich was ranked 15th in the field Natural Sciences and Mathematics by the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities and the EPFL in Lausanne was ranked 18th in the field Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences by the same ranking. In addition there are various Universities of Applied Sciences. Switzerland has the second highest rate of foreign students in tertiary education, after Australia.


CERN, world's largest laboratory, GenevaGeneva host the world's largest laboratory, the CERN,[44] dedicated to particle physics research. Another important research center is the Paul Scherrer Institute. Notable inventions include the Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), the Scanning tunneling microscope (Nobel prize) or the very popular Velcro. Some technologies enabled the exploration of new worlds such as the the pressurized balloon of Auguste Piccard and the Bathyscaphe which permitted Jacques Piccard to reach the deepest point of the world's oceans.


The still active NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers are powered by Swiss-built motors.[45]Many Nobel prizes were awarded to Swiss scientists, for example to the world-famous physicist Albert Einstein in the field of physics who developed his theory of relativity while working in Berne. More recently Vladimir Prelog, Heinrich Rohrer, Richard Ernst, Edmond Fischer, Rolf Zinkernagel and Kurt Wüthrich received Nobel prizes in the sciences. In total, 113 Nobel Prize winners stand in relation to Switzerland and the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded 9 times to organizations residing in Switzerland.

Switzerland was one of the 10 founders of the European Space Agency in 1975 and is the seventh largest contributor to the ESA budget. In the private sector, several companies are implicated in the space industry such as Oerlikon Space or Maxon Motors who provide spacecraft structures.

Electricity generated in Switzerland is 53% from hydroelectricity and 42% from nuclear power,

Electricity generated in Switzerland is 53% from hydroelectricity and 42% from nuclear power, with 5% of the electricity generated from conventional power sources resulting in a nearly CO2-free electricity-generating network.

On 18 May 2003, two anti-nuclear initiatives were turned down: Moratorium Plus, aimed at forbidding the building of new nuclear power plants (41.6% supported and 58.4% opposed), and Electricity Without Nuclear (33.7% supported and 66.3% opposed). The former ten-year moratorium on the construction of new nuclear power plants was the result of a citizens' initiative voted on in 1990 which had passed with 54.5% Yes vs. 45.5% No votes. A new nuclear plant in the Canton of Bern is presently planned. The Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) is the office responsible for all questions relating to energy supply and energy use within the Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (DETEC). The agency is supporting the 2000-watt society initiative to cut the nation's energy use by more than half by the year 2050. See also SwissEnergy.


Entrance of the new Lötschberg Base Tunnel, third longest railway tunnel in the world, under the old Lötschberg railway line. It is the first completed tunnel of the greater project AlpTransit.Swiss private-public managed road network is funded by road tolls and vehicle taxes. The Swiss autobahn/autoroute system requires the purchase of a vignette (toll sticker)—which costs 40 Swiss francs—for one calendar year in order to use its roadways, for both passenger cars and trucks. The Swiss autobahn/autoroute network has a total length of 1,638 km (as of 2000) and has, by an area of 41,290 km², also the one of the highest motorway densities in the world. Zürich Airport, managed by Unique Airport, is Switzerland's largest international flight gateway, which handled 20.7 million passengers in 2007. The second largest Geneva Cointrin International Airport handled 10.8 million passengers and the third largest EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg 4.3 million passengers, both airports being shared with France.

The rail network of 5,063 km in Switzerland carries over 350 million passengers annually. In 2007, each Swiss citizen ran on average 2,103 km by rail, which makes them the keenest rail users. The network is administred mainly by the Federal Railways, except in Graubünden, where the 366 km narrow gauge railway is operated by the Rhaetian Railways and includes some World Heritage lines. The building of new railway base tunnels through the Alps is under way to reduce the time of travel between north and south.

Switzerland is heavily active in recycling and anti-littering regulations and is one of the top recyclers in the world, with 66% to 96% of recyclable materials being recycled. In many places in Switzerland, household garbage disposal is charged for. Garbage (except dangerous items, batteries etc.) is only collected if it is in bags which either have a payment sticker attached, or in official bags with the surcharge paid at the time of purchase. This gives a financial incentive to recycle as much as possible, since recycling is free. Swiss health officials and police often open up garbage for which the disposal charge has not been paid and search for evidence such as old bills which connect the bag to the household/person they originated from. Fines for not paying the disposal fee range from CHF 200–500.

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Skiing and mountaineering are much practiced by Swiss people and foreigners, the highest summits attract mountaineers from around the world. The Haute Route trekking or the Patrouille des Glaciers race have international reputation.

Like many other Europeans, many Swiss are fans of football (soccer) and the national team or 'Nati' is widely supported. Switzerland's most well known football clubs include Grasshoppers Zurich, Servette FC and FC Basel. Switzerland was also the joint venue with Austria in the Euro 2008 football tournament, although the Swiss team dropped out before the Quarter Finals. The Swiss Beach Soccer Team on the other hand became runner-up in 2008 and in 2005 they won the Euro Beach Soccer Cup.


Spengler Cup in DavosMany Swiss also follow ice hockey and support one of the 12 clubs in the League A. Switzerland will host the 2009 IIHF World Championships for the 10th time. The Swiss team's latest achievement in ice hockey is the 1953 bronze medal. Switzerland is also the home of the sailing team Alinghi which won the America's Cup in 2003 and defended the title in 2007. Curling has been a very popular winter sport for more than 30 years. The Swiss teams have won 3 World Men's Curling Championships and 2 Women's titles. The Swiss men's team skipped by Dominic Andres won a gold medal at 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics. Golf is a growing sport with more than 35 courses available.

Over the last few years several Swiss tennis players, like Roger Federer and Martina Hingis, have been multiple Grand Slam singles champions. One of the world's best current ice skaters is Swiss Stéphane Lambiel. André Bossert is successful Swiss professional golfer.


Traditional wrestling (Schwingen)Other sports where the Swiss have been successful include fencing (Marcel Fischer), cycling (Fabian Cancellara), whitewater slalom (Ronnie Dürrenmatt – canoe, Mathias Röthenmund – kayak), ice hockey (Swiss National League), beach volleyball (Sascha Heyer, Markus Egger, Paul and Martin Laciga), and skiing (Bernhard Russi, Pirmin Zurbriggen, Didier Cuche).

Motorsport racecourses and events were banned in Switzerland following the 1955 Le Mans disaster with exception to events such as Hillclimbing. However, this ban was overturned in June 2007.[76] Even though racing has been banned in Switzerland, the country has produced successful racing drivers such as Clay Regazzoni, Jo Siffert and successful World Touring Car Championship driver Alain Menu. Switzerland also won the A1GP World Cup of Motorsport in 2007-08 with driver Neel Jani. High profile drivers from Formula 1 and World Rally Championship such as Michael Schumacher, Nick Heidfeld, Kimi Räikkönen, Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton and Sébastien Loeb all have a residence in Switzerland, albeit mainly for tax purposes.[

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An unusual number of international institutions have their seats in Switzerland, in part because of its policy of neutrality. The Red Cross was founded there in 1863 and still has its institutional centre in the country. Switzerland is not a member of the European Union; the Swiss people rejected membership in a referendum in the early 1990s. Switzerland is one of the most recent countries to have joined the United Nations, in 2002, even though Geneva is the second biggest centre for the United Nations after New York, and Switzerland was a founding member of the League of Nations. Apart from the United Nations headquarter, Geneva is host to many UN agencies, like the World Health Organization (WHO), the Internatioanl Telecommunication Union (ITU) and many others.

Furthermore, many sport federations and organizations are located throughout the country. The most important ones are probably the International Olympic Committee, in Lausanne, the FIFA (International Federation of Association Football), in Zurich, and the UEFA (Union of European Football Association).

The World Economic Forum foundation is based in Geneva. It is best known for its annual meeting in Davos which brings together top international business and political leaders to discuss important issues facing the world, including health and the environment.Technorati Profile