Bern's Green Escapes
Bern · Switzerland
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Step away from the cobblestones to explore the lush parks and open-air retreats of Bern. You will wander through fragrant rose collections and peaceful riverside greenery. This walk shows you how the city integrates nature into its urban landscape.
The walk
Rosengarten
A panoramic terrace that spent over a century as a cemetery before becoming a rose garden.
Münsterplattform
A terrace built over two centuries that served as a cemetery and a dumping ground for banned saints.
Dählhölzli Zoo
A riverside zoo born from a clockmaker's legacy and a city-wide debate over its location.
Elfenau
A Russian Grand Duchess's Empire-style retreat and one of Switzerland's finest English landscape parks.
Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places
More walks in Bern
8 walks
How a walk works
The guide starts talking when you arrive.
This page is the map and the itinerary. The app is the guide who walks it with you.
Pick a walk
Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.
Pocket your phone
Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.
Listen as you arrive
On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.
Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.
The route, followed
A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.
In four languages
English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.
Or build your own
Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.
The unglamorous things
Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.
No signal needed
Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.
Picks up where you left off
Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.