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The Zürich Opera House is an opera house in the Swiss city of Zürich. Located at the Sechseläutenplatz, it has been the home of the Zürich Opera since 1891, and also houses the Bernhard-Theater Zürich. It is also home to the Zürich Ballet.
The Fraumünster is a church in Zürich which was built on the remains of a former abbey for aristocratic women which was founded in 853 by Louis the German for his daughter Hildegard. He endowed the Benedictine convent with the lands of Zürich, Uri, and the Albis forest, and granted the convent immunity, placing it under his direct authority. Today, it belongs to the Evangelical Reformed Church of the canton of Zürich and is one of the four main churches of Zürich, the others being the Grossmünster, Prediger and St. Peter's churches.
3. Zürcher Kuh-Kultur
CowParade is an international public art exhibit that has featured in major world cities. Fiberglass sculptures of cows are decorated by local artists, and distributed over the city centre, in public places such as train stations, important avenues, and parks. They often feature artwork and designs specific to local culture, as well as city life and other relevant themes.
4. Galerie Gmurzynska
Galerie Gmurzynska is a commercial art gallery based in Zurich, Switzerland, specializing in modern and contemporary art and work by the Russian avant-garde. It became a popular venue for international collectors seeking Russian art that was banned by the Soviet regime, and, according to Artnet, became the "go-to place for Russian art for international collectors".
5. Zürich Tram Museum
The Zürich Tram Museum is a transport museum in the Swiss city of Zürich, specialising in the history of the Zürich tram system. The main museum site is located at the former tram depot, Tramdepot Burgwies. The museum also maintains a workshop at the much smaller former tram depot of Wartau.
6. Villa Patumbah
The Villa Patumbah at Zollikerstrasse 128 in Zurich was built between 1883 and 1885 by the architects Chiodera and Tschudy for Karl Fürchtegott Grob. The extraordinarily wealthy builder had acquired his wealth with a tobacco plantation on Sumatra. Today, the villa is one of the most important witnesses of historicism in Zurich and is a listed building. Patumbak is the name of the village that was located at the first plantation of Grob and also gave it its name. In various writings in Zurich, it is written that the name means longed-for land in Malay. However, Patumbak is simply a field name.
7. Liebfrauenkirche
The Church of Our Lady is the Roman Catholic parish church for the city of Zurich's urban areas of Niederdorf, the university district and parts of the Zürichberg. It is considered the "most important replica of an early Christian basilica on Swiss soil". The Church of Our Lady is located at Zehnderweg 9 near the main train station, the Central and the two universities ETH and the University of Zurich.
8. Predigerkirche
Predigerkirche is one of the four main churches of the old town of Zürich, Switzerland, besides Fraumünster, Grossmünster and St. Peter. First built in 1231 AD as a Romanesque church of the then Dominican Predigerkloster, the Basilica was converted in the first half of the 14th century, the choir between 1308 and 1350 rebuilt, and a for that time unusual high bell tower was built, regarded as the highest Gothic edifice in Zürich.
9. Alter Botanischer Garten
The Old Botanical Garden is a botanical garden and arboretum in the Swiss city of Zürich. The garden is, among the neighbored Schanzengraben moat and the Bauschänzli bastion, one of the last remains of the Baroque fortifications of Zürich, that was begun in 1642.
10. MFO-Park
The MFO-Park is a public park in the Oerlikon quarter of the Swiss city of Zürich. The area to the north of Zürich Oerlikon railway station was once home to the extensive works of Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon (MFO), as site that has now been redeveloped as Neu Oerlikon. As part of that redevelopment, four new parks were created, including the MFO-Park, which was created on the footprint of one of MFO's buildings. The project was designed by the architects Burckhardt + Partner, landscape architects Raderschallpartner and structural engineers Basler & Hofmann AG.
11. Pavillon Le Corbusier
The Pavillon Le Corbusier is a Swiss art museum in Zürich-Seefeld at Zürichhorn dedicated to the work of the Swiss architect Le Corbusier. In 1960, Heidi Weber had the vision to establish a museum designed by Le Corbusier. The building was to exhibit his works of art in an ideal environment created by the architect himself. It was then named the Centre Le Corbusier or Heidi Weber Museum. In April 2014 the building and museum went over to the city of Zürich, and was renamed in May 2016.
12. Allerheiligen
The Church of All Saints is the Roman Catholic parish church for the Neuaffoltern area. It is located on the border between the Zurich districts of Affoltern, Unterstrass and Oerlikon. It is considered to be the first new church building in the Diocese of Chur, in which the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy of the Second Vatican Council was implemented.
13. Ganymed
Ganymede is the name of a sculpture on the Bürkliterrasse, Zurich's Front Row Seat by the Lake, located on Bürkliplatz, a popular square on Lake Zurich. It is the central eye-catcher of the square, which was completed in 1887, with the Alpine panorama towering on the horizon. The sculpture was designed by the artist Hermann Hubacher as the "Abduction to Olympus", unveiled by the City of Zurich in 1952 and owned by its Art Collection.
14. Rietberg Museum
The Rietberg Museum is a museum in Zürich, Switzerland, displaying Asian, African, American and Oceanian art. It is the largest art museum focusing on non-European art and design in Switzerland, the third-largest museum in Zürich, and the largest to be run by the city itself. In 2007, it received approximately 157,000 visitors.
15. Mahmood Mosque
The Mahmood Mosque, situated in Forchstrasse, Zurich, is the first purpose-built mosque in Switzerland. It is owned and run by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. The mosque has a minaret, the new construction of which is now banned in Switzerland by popular vote.
16. Coninx-Museum
The Coninx Museum was an art museum in Zurich-Hottingen. It housed around 14,000 works of art from the Coninx Foundation, which go back to the painter and art collector Werner Coninx. It is one of the largest private art collections in Switzerland. The museum closed in 2012.
17. Katholische Kirche St. Felix und Regula
The Church of St. Felix and Regula is the Roman Catholic parish church of the Zurich district of Hard. It bears the patronage of Zurich's patron saints, Felix and Regula, and has as a special feature the largest cycle of glass paintings created by the artist Ferdinand Gehr.
18. Zivilschutzmuseum
The Civil Defence Museum is located in an underground, three-storey deep circular civil defence bunker in the Wipkingen district of Zurich, Switzerland. It has been managed by the city of Zurich in the historic building since 2005.
19. Augustinerkirche
Augustinerkirche was once one of the five main churches in the old town of Zürich, Switzerland, together with Fraumünster, Grossmünster, Predigern and St. Peter's. First built around 1270 as a Romanesque church belonging to the Augustinian abbey, on occasion of the Reformation in Zürich worship in the church was discontinued. The present Christian Catholic Church community of Zürich planned to rebuild the building to commemorate the old Augustinian church, and for the same reason, Augustinerkirche is still their Parish church, that was rebuilt in 1843/44 by Ferdinand Stadler. In the late 1950s, the church was rebuilt in accordance with the plans for the original structure. Today the building is one of the three medieval churches in the Lindenhof district of the city of Zürich.
20. Alte Kantonsschule
The Kantonsschule Rämibühl at the Rämistrasse in Zurich, founded in 1832 as "Kantonsschule Zürich" consists of four Kantonsschulen with different curricular profiles. The four schools, which are attended by more than 2000 students in total, are the Literargymnasium, the Realgymnasium, the Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliches Gymnasium and the Kunst- und Sportgymnasium Rämibühl.
21. Chäferberg
Käferberg and Waidberg are the summits of a wooded mountain respectively chain of hills overlooking the inner city of Zürich, Zürichsee, Albis chain and Uetliberg, as well as the Limmat Valley and the Zürcher Unterland in Switzerland.
22. Pauluskirche
St. Paul's Church is one of the three Protestant Reformed churches in Zurich's Unterstrass district, along with Unterstrass Church and St. Matthew's Church. St. Paul's Church has the largest peal in the canton of Zurich.
23. Helmhaus
The Wasserkirche of Zürich, first mentioned as ecclesia Aquatica Turicensi around 1250 and as wazzirkilcha in 1256, is a church built on a small island in the Limmat, situated between the two main churches of medieval Zürich, the Grossmünster and the Fraumünster, at the Limmatquai and the Münsterbrücke.
24. Kirche Herz Jesu
The Church of the Heart of Jesus is the Roman Catholic parish church of the Oerlikon district of Zurich. Built at the same time as the Church of Our Lady in Unterstrass, but completed a year earlier than the latter, the Church of the Heart of Jesus in Oerlikon is the second Catholic church to be built in the city of Zurich after the Church of St. Peter and Paul in Aussersihl.
25. Münsterbrücke
Münsterbrücke is a pedestrian and road bridge over the Limmat in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. It is listed in the Swiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance. It is indirectly named after two Münster (minsters), the Fraumünster and Grossmünster.
26. North American Native Museum
The North American Native Museum, or Nordamerika Native Museum (NONAM), is a museum run by the City of Zurich, Switzerland. The museum specializes in the conservation, documentation, and presentation of ethnographic objects and artwork of Native American, First Nation, and Inuit cultures.
27. Bäckeranlage
The Bäckeranlage is a park in the Aussersihl district of the city of Zurich. The name of the complex takes from Bäckerstrasse, which originally led to Feldstrasse before a road correction of Stauffacherstrasse.
28. Andreaskirche
The Andreaskirche is a Protestant-reformed church building in the Sihlfeld district, Zurich. It is located on Brahmsstrasse 100 west of Albisriederplatz near the Sihlfeld cemetery. Since January 1, 2019, it has been part of the church district of three of the Evangelical Reformed parish of Zurich.
29. Sukkulenten-Sammlung Zürich
Sukkulenten-Sammlung Zürich, literally succulent plant collection of the city of Zürich, is a botanical garden in the Swiss municipality of Zürich. It also houses a botanic library, a herbarium and the International Organizations for Succulent Plant Research (IOS).
30. Kirche Altstetten
The New Church of Zurich-Altstetten is a Protestant Reformed church centre in the Altstetten district of the city of Zurich. It is one of the most important Reformed church buildings of classical modernism in Switzerland.
31. Naturhistorisches Museum
The Zoological Museum of the University of Zurich is part of the University of Zurich and houses the publicly accessible part of an extensive collection of taxidermy and skeletons. The main non-public part of the collection is housed in the University of Zurich-Irchel, where the management of the Zoological Museum is also based.
32. Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
The Migros Museum of Contemporary Art is a museum for contemporary art in Zürich, Switzerland. Founded in 1996 by Gottlieb Duttweiler, the museum was directed by Rein Wolfs up until 2001, when he was replaced by Heike Munder.
33. Bernhard Theater
The Bernhard-Theater Zürich or Bernhard Theater is a theatre in German-speaking Switzerland situated at Sechseläutenplatz in Zürich. It is part of the building complex Opernhaus Zürich and also houses the Restaurant Belcanto. The theater was founded by and named after Rudolf Bernhard in 1941.
34. Mühlerama
The Tiefenbrunnen mill is a listed building complex in Zurich. The former beer brewery is located in the Seefeld district directly behind Tiefenbrunnen station. The current development comprises seven buildings arranged in a rectangle with an open inner courtyard and two further extensions.
35. SAPA Foundation
The SAPA Foundation, the Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts, preserves and disseminates Switzerland's cultural heritage in the field of performing arts. The SAPA Foundation operates three offices in Bern, Lausanne and Zurich.
Wikipedia: Stiftung SAPA, Schweizer Archiv der Darstellenden Künste (DE), Website
36. Belvoirpark
The Villa Belvoir is a mansion in Zürich-Enge built between 1828 and 1831. It is registered in the Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance along with the Belvoirpark, one of the largest public parks and arboreta in the city of Zürich in Switzerland.
37. Archäologisches Museum
The Archaeological Collection of the University of Zurich is a collection of arts and crafts from ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, from ancient Asia Minor, Greece and Italy of the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Zurich.
Wikipedia: Archäologische Sammlung der Universität Zürich (DE), Website
38. Theater am Hechtplatz
The Theater am Hechtplatz is a theatre in the German-speaking Switzerland situated at Limmatquai in Zürich. Founded in 1959 as a Cabaret, it's owned and provided by the government of the city of Zürich.
39. Theater am Neumarkt
The Theater am Neumarkt or by its present official name Theater Neumarkt is a theatre in the German-speaking Switzerland situated at Neumarkt, Zürich. It is part of the building complex Bilgeriturm–Neumarkt and also houses the Hottinger guild for two days a year.
40. Moulagenmuseum
The Moulage Museum of the University of Zurich contains one of the world's largest collections of moulages. It was built between 1918 and 1948. The collection is a cultural asset of national importance.
41. Thomas-Mann-Archiv
The Thomas Mann Archive is an archive of ETH Library Zurich. It safeguards and maintains the literary legacy of the German writer Thomas Mann. The completely redesigned permanent exhibition "Furnished in Writing. Thomas Mann and his study" shows the reference library and objects from Thomas Mann's last study and gives an insight into his creative environment and the conditions under which his works were created.
42. Völkerkundemuseum der Universität Zürich
The Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich is the third oldest ethnological museum of Switzerland. Owner of its collections since 1914 is the University of Zurich. The main fields of the museum's activities are the maintenance of the collections, research, teaching and public relations.
Wikipedia: Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich (EN)
43. Grossmünsterkapelle
The Grossmünster Chapel is a Protestant Reformed chapel opposite the Grossmünster on the corner of Münstergasse and Kirchgasse in the old town of Zurich. The building houses the Helferei cultural centre.
44. Krattenturm
The Krattenturm stood in the Oberstrass district of Zurich in the forest of the Zürichberg. The fortified tower, built in the middle of the 14th century, was destroyed on 30 April 1444. Since its walls were used for the construction of other buildings, nothing remains today. However, the coat of arms of the quarter still shows him today. On the information board at the former location you can still find the following details about its function:
45. Alte Kirche St. Niklaus
The Church of Schwamendingen is a Protestant Reformed church in the city of Zurich. It is located between Stettbachstrasse and Dübendorfstrasse, not far from Schwamendingerplatz, in the centre of the Schwamendingen district of the same name.
46. Loorenkopf Turm
Loorenkopf tower is a 33-metre (108 ft) high freestanding wood lattice tower on Adlisberg, north of Witikon in Zürich, Switzerland. It was built in 1954. The tower is owned by Zürich city and it is open to the public.
47. Lindenhofbrunnen
The Hedwig Fountain or Lindenhof Fountain is a fountain in the Lindenhof hill in Zürich, Switzerland, which was built in 1912. The helmeted statue of a woman beside the fountain was made by Gustav Siber. It was built to honor the Zürich women, allegedly led by Hedwig ab Burghalden, who defended the city by duping the army of Duke Albert I of Germany during the siege of Zürich in 1292. They dressed in full battle gear in order to trick the Habsburg army into thinking that the city was well protected while their men were busy campaigning at Winterthur.
48. Monte Diggelmann
Monte Diggelmann, or Monte for short, is a viewpoint in the Oberstrass district of the city of Zurich, Switzerland. The hill is the highest elevation of the Irchelpark and is located on the western slope of the Zürichberg. It was filled in the 1970s from excavated material from the Irchel campus of the University of Zurich.
49. Alfred Escher-Statue
The Bahnhofplatz is a square on the edge of the old town of Zurich, south of the main train station. It forms the northern end of Bahnhofstrasse and is dominated by the Alfred Escher Fountain. There is a tram stop on the square, including part of the Shopville shopping arcade and the underground station of the Sihltal-Zurich-Uetliberg Railway (SZU).
50. Theater Winkelwiese
The Theater Winkelwiese, in Zurich, originally named Theater an der Winkelwiese, has been known for avant-garde theater performances since its founding in the 1960s. The cellar theatre in the Villa Tobler was opened by Maria von Ostfelden on 16 June 1964 with the Swiss premiere of the three-person play The Janitor by Harold Pinter.
51. FIFA World Football Museum
The FIFA Museum is an association football museum operated by FIFA. The museum is located in Zürich, Switzerland, across town from the FIFA headquarters. It opened on 28 February 2016. The project, costing over SFr500 million ($563m), is currently under investigation for "suspected criminal mismanagement".
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