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3 Sights
- Grossmünster (great minster) (near Lake Zürich, in the old city), where Zwingli was pastor
- Fraumünster (our lady's minster) first church built before 874; the Romanesque choir dates from 1250-70; Marc Chagall stained glass choir windows; (on the opposite side of the Limmat)
- St. Peter (downstream of Fraumünster, in the old city); with the largest clock face in Europe
- Lindenhof (linden court), near St. Peter; site of the Roman and medieval castle. View over river and old town.
- Guild houses along the river (downstream Grossmünster)
- Old town on both sides of the river
- Bahnhofstrasse, Zürich (shopping avenue) starting at main train station
- Landesmuseum (Swiss National Museum, directly opposite Zürich's main train station.)
- Art Museum ( Kunsthaus Zürich )
- Zoological garden
- Lake Zürich, running from Zürich to Rapperswil and linking with the Obersee
- Üetliberg , at altitude 813 metres above sea level
4 Industry and Commerce
UBS, Credit Suisse and many private banks have their headquarters in Zürich, the commercial center of Switzerland. The Swiss Stock Exchange is also headquartered in Zürich (see also Swiss banking, Gnomes of Zurich).
5 Education and Research
6 Sports
7 Transportation
Zürich is a hub for rail, road and air traffic. It has several railway stations, including Zürich Main Station, Zürich Oerlikon , Zürich Stadelhofen, and Zürich Altstetten. The Cisalpino, InterCity Express and even the TGV high-speed trains stop in Zürich.
The A1 , A3 and A4 motorways leave Zürich (the A1 heads west towards Bern and Geneva, east towards St. Gallen, and the A3 heads northwest towards Basel and southeast towards Sargans.)
Zürich has a major international airport at Kloten, less than 10 kilometres northeast of the city. There is also an airfield in Dübendorf , although it is not used for civil aviation.
Within Zürich and throughout the canton of Zürich, the ZVV network of public transport has traffic density rating among the highest worldwide.
8 Notable people
born or died in Zürich
- Huldrych Zwingli ( 1484 - 1531), reformer
- Conrad Gessner ( 1516 - 1565), born and died in Zürich
- Johann Jakob Scheuchzer ( 1672 - 1733), scholar, born in Zürich
- Johann Kaspar Lavater ( 1741 - 1801), poet and physiognomist, born in Zürich
- Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi ( 1746 - 1827), educational reformer, born in Zürich
- Gottfried Keller ( 1819 - 1890) , poet, born and died in Zürich
- Conrad Ferdinand Meyer ( 1825 - 1898), poet, born in Zürich
- Johanna Spyri ( 1827 - 1901), author of Heidi, died in Zürich
- Wilhelm Filchner ( 1877 - 1957), explorer, died in Zürich
- James Joyce ( 1882 - 1941), Irish novelist, died in Zürich (buried at Fluntern cemetery in Zürich)
- Felix Bloch ( 1905 - 1983), physicist, born in Zürich
- Elias Canetti ( 1905 - 1994), novelist, died in Zürich
- Max Frisch ( 1911 - 1991), novelist, born and died in Zürich
- Bruno Ganz (* 1941), actor, born in Zürich
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