Our Heritage
Discover our Heritage: four outstanding natural phenomena and nine great cultural achievements in Switzerland have been awarded UNESCO's most coveted acknowledgement. Each of them stands for authenticity, quality and diversity for many generations to come. These values are part of the identity and mentality of the Swiss population.
Conscious travel to these places evokes new and different images of an outstanding and demanding Switzerland, which we share with the global community.
Discover our Heritage: four outstanding natural phenomena and nine great cultural achievements in Switzerland have been awarded UNESCO's most coveted acknowledgement. Each of them stands for authenticity, quality and diversity for many generations to come. These values are part of the identity and mentality of the Swiss population.
Conscious travel to these places evokes new and different images of an outstanding and demanding Switzerland, which we share with the global community.
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The motto "You only want to protect what you know" aptly summarises the purpose of the World Heritage Days. It is important that the local population is ...
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La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle
La Chaux-de-Fonds / Le Locle
A fantastic multimedia space dedicated to the Watchmaking town planning.
The ideal place to unravel the secrets of this UNESCO World Heritage site: a multimedia ...
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Monte San Giorgio
Monte San Giorgio
On four floors, the great diversity of creatures that populated the sea and its coast in southern Ticino between 247 and 237 million years ago is presented. Thanks ...
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Fortress of Bellinzona
Fortress of Bellinzona
The medieval castles of Bellinzona – Castelgrande, Montebello
and Sasso Corbaro – have been listed as UNESCO World Heritage property since 2000. With ...
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Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps
Prehistoric Pile Dwellings around the Alps
Lake dwellings from the bronze to the neolithic age
A remarkable concentration of pile-dwelling sites has been identified on the shores of Lakes Bienne, Morat ...
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Tectonic Arena Sardona
Tectonic Arena Sardona
The Glarnerland Visitor Centre, with its two locations in Glarus (in the Nature Centre, train station building) and Elm (in the old school building, Sandgasse 1, ...
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Convent of St John in Müstair
Convent of St John in Müstair
Twelve hundred-years of convent, architectural and art history
Convent Museum
The convent’s museum is located in the Planta Tower, an over one-thousand-year-old ...
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Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes
Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes
The Albula Railway Museum in Bergün guides railway enthusiasts and families through the history of the railway in Graubünden. Old railway equipment, films ...
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Abbey of St. Gall
Abbey of St. Gall
In 1983, the Abbey Library, together with the entire Abbey District of St. Gall, was inscribed by UNESCO on the World Heritage List. This was followed in 2017 by ...
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Education
World Heritage properties are among the most important contemporary testimonies on the planet. Many legacies are due to our ancestors. But nature has also contributed ...
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Holy Week Processions in Mendrisio
Holy Week Processions in Mendrisio
Casa Croci, a small 19th-century architectural gem, house the Museo del Trasparente of Mendrisio (Illuminated Paintings Museum). This will be the first exhibition ...
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Panoramic Route
Switzerland may seem small, but it has a wealth of places to visit and sights to see, including 13 World Heritage Sites that can be reached effortlessly by public ...
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Nature, Environment and Technology
A total of 13 natural and cultural sites are part UNESCO World Heritage in Switzerland. But what is a World Heritage property? What distinguishes a UNESCO World ...
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Panoramic Route
Locarno with the Treno Gottardo
The Gotthard Mountain route is one of the most spectacular Swiss railroad lines: lakes, mountains and great engineering can be ...
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Nature, Environment and Technology
The illustrator Isabelle Metzen has focussed on the extraordinary universal values of each individual site in order to make the World Heritage tangible for even ...
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Holy Week Processions in Mendrisio
Holy Week Processions in Mendrisio
The virtual tour to discover the "Museo del Trasparente" of Mendrisio. Explore the beauty of the Museo del Trasparente, opened in 2017 at Casa Croci, and ...
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Benedictine Convent of St. John in Müstair
In Graubünden, families can discover unique frescoes from the early Middle Ages with Babette, the monastery ...
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Discover some barrier-free offers of the UNESCO World Heritage in Switzerland!
Benedictine Convent of St. John in Müstair
Nowadays, the convent’s ...
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