Zurich's Green Escapes
Zurich · Switzerland
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Step away from the city pavement to explore Zurich's most curated botanical collections and expansive lawns. You will wander through diverse tree species and manicured landscapes that showcase the city's passion for horticulture. This route offers a refreshing breath of air and a glimpse into the intersection of nature and urban planning.
The walk
Arboretum Zurich
A nineteenth-century scientific experiment in landscape design disguised as a public park.
Rieterpark
A merchant's private estate turned public sanctuary, where Richard Wagner composed Tristan.
Platzspitz park
A former hunting ground and 1980s 'Needle Park' now restored as a peaceful riverside garden.
Botanical Garden of the University of Zurich
A university sanctuary of hemispherical greenhouses and global river ecosystems.
Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places
More walks in Zurich
6 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.