The Star of Switzerland: 7 Facts about Zürich

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1. The canton of Zürich is a Swiss canton in the northeastern part of the country. With a population of 1,520,968 (as of 31 December 2018), it is the most populated canton in the country.



2. Permanently settled for over 2,000 years, Zürich was founded by the Romans, who, in 15 BC, called it Turicum. Roman rule ended around 400 AD and nobody really has any idea what went on in Zurich for the next few centuries. The territory of the canton of Zürich corresponds to the lands acquired by the city of Zürich after it became reichsfrei in 1218.



3. With the city’s population topping 400,000 inhabitants and 1.3 million people within the canton, Zurich is the urban hub of Switzerland. The country’s economic and cultural hub and one of Europe’s main financial and industrial capitals, it’s easy to forget that it’s also a delightful and fascinating place for tourists. Its many attractions include dozens of museums, a well-preserved old town filled with medieval and Renaissance buildings, and enough art – both in and out of museums – to keep art-lovers happy for a week. The old town encompasses the area of the entire historical city before 1893. It is a neighborhood filled with historic charm, its narrow streets rising steeply on the east side of the river.



4. Because Zurich is the Swiss financial capital, many assume it also holds the highest rank in politics. However, the central city of Bern became the official unofficial federal capital in 1848, when Switzerland became the country we know today.



5. The first accidental bombing happened in 1944 when the USAAF was attempting to bomb Ludwigshafen am Rhein (in Germany) but instead targeted Schaffhausen. As you can imagine this caused considerable diplomatic distress since Switzerland was a neutral country during WWII. Investigations cited weather conditions and navigation errors as the causes for the bombing and the city was compensated four million dollars for the various damages. Yet, only one year later the USAAF bombed Zurich again thinking that they were hitting Aschaffenburg, Germany.



6. It has a museum dedicated to nothing. It’s called the No Show Museum and its purpose is to show how ‘nothing’ has manifested through art over time. The concept may not be the easiest to wrap your mind around but it is certainly intriguing.



7. Zürich was the focus of the Swiss Reformation led by Huldrych Zwingli. The Reformation in Zürich was promoted initially by Huldrych Zwingli, who gained the support of the magistrates of the city of Zürich and the princess abbess Katharina von Zimmern of the Fraumünster Abbey, and the population of the city of Zürich and agriculture-oriented population of the present Canton of Zürich in the early 1520s. It led to significant changes in civil life and state matters in Zürich and spread to several other cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy, and thus initiated the Reformation in Switzerland.



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Von Fotograf: Gerber, HansTitel: Zürich nach der Bombardierung vom 4. März 1945Beschreibung:Bombenabwurf der US Air Force im Raum Milchbuck-Schwamendingen, Areal in der Nähe der Landwirtschaftlichen Schule Strickhof, Frohburgstrasse und In der Hub - http://ba.e-pics.ethz.ch/#15458205442... CC BY-SA 4.0Nutzung: Download und Nutzung freiBildnachweis: ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Bildarchiv / Fotograf: Gerber, Hans / Com_M01-0756-0001 / CC BY-SA 4.0, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

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Von Josua Murer, upload by Parpan05, 23.12.2006 - Documentation about the Murerplan, Mathieu Verlag Zürich, 1997, Gemeinfrei, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

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