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Switzerland’s National Museum is located nearby Hauptbahnhof in Zurich, Landesmuseum. The museum holds important art and cultural history of Europe. The museum was built by Gustav Gull in 1898. The museum covers history from Stone Age, medieval, renaissance, and present.
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Jacobs coffee museum was open in November, 1984 as Jacobs Suchard Museum. The museum is located nearby Lake Zurich and the promenade. The museum was initially built in 1913 for Zurich engineer and politician Dr Fritz Ernst. In the house was a drinking corner that is now an exhibition room.
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Rietberg museum is a museum fill with Asian, African, Oceanian, and American art located in Zurich, Switzerland. The collection of the museum is from Africa, Ancient America, China, India, Japan, Ancient Orient, Islamic Near East, and Southeast Asia.
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St Peter’s Church is the oldest church of Zurich, Switzerland. It will built in 8th century then few renovations were made in13th century and in 1705. It is located by Limmat River. The church’s faith is in Christianity and features Gothic Murals
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The Fraumunster church was founded by Emperor Ludwig, Louis the German in 853 year. It is the very first church of Southern Germany. Hildegard was the first nun of the church who was also Ludwig’s daughter. The nuns of the church achieved many rights on the church making it a noble place for nuns to live in 13th century.
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The Grossmunster church is located in Zurich, Switzerland by Limmat River. The church was made in 12th century in Romanesque style. The church was found by Charlemagne who was passing by but his horse stopped by the grave of three Christian martyrs that included Felix, Exuperantius, and Regula’s tombs.
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Lake Zurich is also known as Lake of Zurich that is located in southwest of canton of Zurich. Geographically it is banana shaped; on east side there are two small lakes: Greifensee and Pfaffikersee and on the west are two region located under the name of Zimmer berg and Etzel.
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Bahnhofstrasse is the main downtown street of Zurich that is about 1.5 kilometers long. It has the most expensive and exclusive shopping stores of the world. For shopaholics it is a paradise area.
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Uetliberg is a mountain located in Swiss Plateau. The top of the hills provides a beautiful scenery view of Zurich city and lake of it. There are two towers on top of the mountain; look-out tower and TV-tower. Lookout tower was rebuilt in 1990 and TV-tower was rebuilt in 1968.
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Zurich zoo is located in Zurich, Switzerland that was opened for public in 1929. Currently the zoo has at least 2200 species.
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