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Mar 10, 2021 · A royal visit will dominate the news for days on end. Between 13 March and 3 October 2021, an exhibition called The Royals Are Coming! at the Forum of Swiss History Schwyz reflects the diversity of royal visitors to Switzerland and features fascinating stories and impressive mementos of their time here. Today still, traces of royal visits are ...
Exhibition. The permanent exhibition at the Forum of Swiss History by the title of ‘Switzerland in the Making. Through the 12th to the 14th Century’ focuses on the foundation and early development of the Old Swiss Confederacy in the Middle Ages. Designed as an adventure tour to address our senses, the exhibition appeals to children and ...
Exhibition. The diary of Anne Frank is world famous. It’s less well known that the journey to global publication began in Switzerland. While Anne, her sister and her mother were killed in the concentration camp, Anne’s father was the only family member to survive the Holocaust. Otto Frank moved to live with his sister in Basel in the 1950s.
Wit and humour come in many shapes and forms. Jokes can be fierce, political, nasty, harmless, daring, even dirty at times. They are commonplace, but rarely banal. The multimedia exhibition «Made in Witzerland» takes a look at the funny side of Switzerland – featuring caricatures from the last three centuries, contemporary cartoons, and ...
1. October 2024. During the tenth century, barbarian raids affected large parts of what is now Switzerland. Seizing control of the western alpine passes, Saracens from the Emirate of Fraxinetum dominated the crucial arteries of trade and pilgrimage between France, Italy, and Switzerland for nearly a century. Much of Switzerland fell under their ...
first group tour of Switzerland. Flood of British tourists Queen Victoria’s visit led to a surge in the number of Britons visiting Switzerland. They followed in her wake, and Switzerland’s tourism bosses spotted their chance: among other places, a paddle steamer, squares and hotels in Lucerne and Interlaken were named in the monarch’s honour.
Forum of Swiss History Schwyz | 24.2.2024 - 27.10.2024. published on 22.2.2024. The new exhibition «Child labour» at the Forum of Swiss History Schwyz deals with a topic that has, up to now, received little attention in Swiss history. It sheds light on how, in the 19th and 20th centuries, children helped to secure their family’s income ...
Dec 1, 2020 · So her saying 'I'm Switzerland' while those two are fighting means 'I'm not picking a side, I'm neutral' English (US) French (France) German Italian Japanese Korean Polish Portuguese (Brazil) Portuguese (Portugal) Russian Simplified Chinese (China) Spanish (Mexico) Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) Turkish Vietnamese
Mar 31, 2024 · 1. "Swiss" 和 "Switzerland" 这两个词在意义上有区别。. "Swiss" 通常指瑞士人，也可以用来形容与瑞士有关的事物或风格。. 而 "Switzerland" 专指国家名，即瑞士。. 2. 这两个词在使用场合上也有所不同。. "Swiss" 更常用于口语中，而 "Switzerland" 则在书面语中更为常见 ...
Dec 11, 2022 · In 1912, Alfred de Quervain trekked across Greenland. The data collected by the Swiss explorer on the seven-week expedition are still of great value for science today. The exhibition examines de Quervain’s pioneering feat in the eternal ice, and links it with the present. Switzerland still carries out glacier research in Greenland, making a ...
