“Can’t you look where you’re smurfing?” These were the words that catapulted the Smurfs onto the public stage.

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published August 30th, 2013

Though Switzerland may be small, it’s big on museums, with more than 1,000 of them championing the preservation, display, study and dissemination of Swiss heritage day in, day out.

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published July 3rd, 2013

In its third year, the “Vegetable blossoms” definitive set spotlights the bell pepper and the leek.

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published June 18th, 2013

Artist Valentin Carron from Canton Valais will be representing Switzerland at the 2013 Venice Art Biennale.

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published June 5th, 2013

With the new “Postal Vehicles” Europa stamps, Swiss Post is positioning itself as a forward-looking

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published May 21st, 2013

In 1949, Switzerland’s white stork population disappeared, leaving a landscape totally devoid of bill clattering.

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published April 29th, 2013

25 August 1925 saw the birth of the Migros enterprise, when five Ford T vans, carrying coffee,

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published April 17th, 2013

50 years of serving safety: Originally set up to protect the civilian population in wartime,

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published April 3rd, 2013

Bernese artist Ernst Kreidolf (1863-1956) is regarded as the creator of the modern German-language picture book.

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published March 22nd, 2013

The Lötschberg Railway started operating in the summer of 1913 with the 14.612 kilometre Lötschberg Tunnel as its core element.

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published March 11th, 2013

The Swiss Alpine Club (SAC) was founded at Olten railway station on 19 April 1863 by 35 men from Aarau, Basel, Berne, Buochs, Glarus, Lucerne, Olten, St. Gallen and Zurich in response to an appeal made by Rudolf Theodor Simler from Zurich.

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published February 25th, 2013