4 November 2022
At last, on 9 August 1847, 175 years ago, the first train carrying passengers ran on the Zurich-Baden railway (Canton Aargau) to the station in Baden. The railway was named Spanisch-Brötli Bahn, because of a patisserie in Baden, so the story goes, that transported Spanish sandwiches quickly and fresh to Zurich. Railway Station Baden, 1890. … Read more » “175 Years Swiss Railways”
1 November 2022
The exhibition “Ave Caesar! Römer, Gallier und Germanen am Rhein” shows the relations between the civilisations of the Mediterranean and the tribes of the Celts (or Gauls) and Germans along the Rhine. The Host Gaius Julius Caesar (100-44 BC) and his successors. Bust of the statue, legionary camp near Nijmegen, marmor, late 1. Century BCE. … Read more » “Ave Caesar. A greeting from the Celts”
15 October 2022
For centuries, mountains were a ‘no go area’ for townspeople or villagers. Only cattle farmers and traders climbed mountains to pasture their cattle in the summer or transport cattle and their meat and milk products. Nobody thought of climbing a mountain for pleasure. Although the Dutch and Flemish masters of the Golden Age introduced idyllic … Read more » “The Alps and the Poet Von Haller”
