10 things to do in Zurich
- Museum of Art - Kunsthaus Zurich
- Church of Our Lady - Fraumunster
- Schloss Kyburg
- Zurich Zoo
- Swiss National Museum
- Bahnhofstrasse
- St. Peterskirche
- Zurich Toy Museum
- Clock and Watch Museum Beyer
- Opera House
Zurich Suggested Restaurants
- Blaue Ente
- Kronenhalle
- Petermann's Kunststuben
- Haus zum Rüden
- Hummerbar
- Veltliner Keller
- Blindekuh
- Blu
- Restaurant LaSalle
- Café Bar Odéon
"In 2007, Zürich was accorded the top ranking as the city with the highest standard of living for the sixth year in succession."
More on Zurich
UBS, Credit Suisse, Swiss Re, and many other financial institutions have their headquarters
in Zürich, the commercial center of Switzerland. Zürich is the world's primary centre for
offshore banking, mainly due to Swiss bank secrecy. The financial sector accounts for about
one quarter of the city's economic activities. The Swiss Stock Exchange (left) is also
located in Zürich.
The success of the Greater Zürich Economic Area as one of the most important in the world is due to many factors: The very low tax rate and the possibility for foreign companies and private persons to optimize their tax burden by personalized tax agreement with the Tax Authorities is surely one of the key points. This practice often causes conflicts with Switzerland's neighbours in Europe, who do not like this type of successful and aggressive strategy for attracting large corporations and service/research centers, such as IBM, General Motors Europe, Google, Microsoft, Dow Chemical, and Pfizer. The fact that Switzerland does not have an inheritance tax is also an important attraction for wealthy private persons.
Zurich nightlife
Zürich offers a lot of variety when it comes for night-time leisure. It became one of
the capitals of Europe's electronic music scene and is the host city
of the world-famous Street Parade, which takes place in August every year.
The most famous districts for Nightlife are the Niederdorf in the old town with bars,
restaurants, lounges, hotels, clubs, etc. and a lot of fashion shops for a young and
stylish public and the Langstrasse in the districts 4 and 5 of the city. There are
authentic amusements: Brazilian bars, punk clubs, HipHop stages, Caribic restaurants,
arthouse-cinemas, Turkish kebabs and Italian espresso-bars, but also sex shops or the
famous red light district of Zürich.
