Zurich's Historical Monuments
Zurich · Switzerland
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Walk through the city's evolution by visiting its oldest churches and grand estates. You will see the transition from medieval religious centers to the opulent villas of the industrial era. This route highlights the physical markers of Zurich's cultural and political growth.
The walk
Stops 1–6 of 7. The rest are in the app.
Botanical Garden of the University of Zurich
A university sanctuary of hemispherical greenhouses and global river ecosystems.
Villa Patumbah
A colonial tobacco fortune carved into a Renaissance-style palace with a hidden railway beneath it.
Neumünster Church
Kirche Neumünster is a Protestant church in Zurich, Switzerland.
Kunsthaus Zürich
Switzerland's largest art museum, where a century of expansion meets a massive new sandstone addition.
Fraumünster
The former powerhouse of Zurich where aristocratic women once ruled the city.
Kirche Enge
A Neo-Renaissance landmark born from a legal battle and a desire for visibility.
Stop 7
- 1 more stop in the app
Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places
More walks in Zurich
6 walks
How a walk works
1 more stop in the app
This page shows the first 6 of 7 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.
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.