Do you want to visit Zürich and spend as little as possible?
Then follow this Top 15 of free tours, museums and activities to do in Zürich that we’ve created for you to enjoy without breaking the bank.
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Zürich Card: your passport to visit Zürich
We advise you to buy the Zürich Card. It offers you many advantages. For 24 or 72 hours, you can travel freely in second streetcar, bus, train, boat or cable car in the city of Zurich in the city of Zürich and its surroundings. You can enter 43 museums at reduced rates. And many other privileges.
You can buy it on the Zürich City Guide App. With this app you can find out everything about about the discounts of the Zürich Card.
Stroll through the old town
This is the beating heart of Zürich. With its medieval streets, Zurich’s old town has an old-fashioned air that gives it an unrivalled charm. We recommend that you go to the Niederdorf district, where you will see the sumptuous Grossmünster cathedral, the most important monument of Zürich, which is worth a visit
Continue on to the Schipfe district, which stands out with its colorful facades and admire the rose windows signed by Chagall in the Fraumünster church. There are also a myriad of small shops, craftsmen’s workshops, and inexpensive restaurants.
Lindenhof
It is a magnificent esplanade on top of a moraine moraine hill, with 90 lime trees and a beautiful fountain. From here you can enjoy a you can enjoy a breathtaking panoramic view of the old town, but also of the river Limmat, the University and the Federal Institute of Technology, all in in green sandstone. This area also contains Roman ruins that are worth a visit worth a visit.
Lindenhof is a real oasis of peace, where where you can feel as if you are miles away from the hustle and bustle the hustle and bustle of the city center, even though it is only a few steps away.
You can meet lovers, kids on swings and enjoy the on swings and enjoying the sandbox, or people of a certain age playing bocce ball playing petanque or a game of giant chess, all in an idyllic setting all in an idyllic setting.
Grossmünster Church: in the footsteps of Charlemagne
This is the most edifying religious monument to see in see in Zürich. Also called the Great Cathedral, its construction began in the early 12th century the beginning of the 12th century and lasted more than a hundred years.
With its two emblematic towers, this great cathedral is certainly an artistic and architectural marvel. But its importance lies at another level, historical
Indeed, it was the place where the separation of the Helvetic church from the papacy was proclaimed. It is certainly this symbolic dimension which makes its notoriety
In addition, this high place of worship hosts the Museum of the Reformation, where you can learn more about this historical process. If you go inside, you will be disturbed by the austerity and piety that emanates from it, and which, on the other hand, better highlights the crypt and a statue of Charlemagne wearing his crown.
Bathing in Zürich
Zürich, the city of water, has everything to please summer visitors: its eponymous lake and the Limmat river that runs through it are among its main assets. On sunny days, swimming is the most popular activity
In addition, Zürich offers its residents and visitors free public beaches with excellent facilities. We can suggest the Flussbad Oberer Letten and the Flussbad Unterer Letten with their river pool on the Limmat.
If you go further away from the city center, you will find the city center, you will find large green areas where you can sunbathe and werdinsel Island on the Limmat, or the Seebad Katzensee near Lake Zurich near Lake Zurich.
Rent a bike for free
Discovering Zürich by bicycle is perhaps a experience and will save you time. And the best part is that you can borrow a bike for free. To do so, you have to go to the the Züri roule loan stations, where you will find free bicycles where you will find free bicycles at your disposal all year round all year round.
These stations are located in different parts of the city parts of the city, especially near the Swiss National Museum or at the Bürkliplatz bürkliplatz during the summer season. All you have to do is is to show a valid identity card and deposit the sum of 20 CHF as a guarantee.
Shopping at Bahnhofstrasse
This is the goldmine of Zürich, and let’s face it almost all of Europe. This street is home to a hundred or so boutiques fashion brands: shoes, watches (you are in Switzerland, it is normal it’s normal), perfumes, jewelry, clothes..
An ideal, even heavenly place for shopping for shopping, which of course requires a well-stocked wallet, and where you will come across and where you will come across the most illustrious companies of the fashion world: Louis Vuitton, Burberry, Cartier… And all this beauty evolves on almost a kilometer and a half.
If you go with a small budget, you can always the sumptuous storefronts or sip a coffee or a delicious chocolate in one of the a coffee or a delicious chocolate in one of the spacious terraces of the terraces.
Visit the Zürich Botanical Gardens for free
Admission is free, so you can see that not everything in Zürich is expensive and that you can have a great time in some wonderful places. This is the case of the Botanical Garden which is a real wonder
With two centuries of history and being a heritage of the university, it is a place much appreciated by many Zurich people who often go there to laze in its outdoor gardens during the hot seasons
It is also an opportunity to breathe in the tropical air, to swoon over the exotic charm of the tropical vegetation, to be intoxicated by the scents of the Mediterranean or to be ecstatic by the spectacle of the rhododendrons in bloom.
Address: Botanischer Garten der Universität Zürich Zollikerstrasse 107
Kunsthaus, the free museum in Zürich
Zürich has more than 50 museums museums. It is difficult to maintain that the city is only a financial metropolis! financial metropolis! These spaces of history and culture tell the story of the city the city and the world and all deserve to be visited.
But if you could only see one, we would recommend this one recommend it: the Kunsthaus, the museum of fine arts. It is one of the most famous in Europe. Its collections consist of more than of more than four thousand works, paintings, sculptures, from the medieval period to from the medieval period to contemporary art.
In vast and radiant rooms, you will be able to the great works of Flemish painting, the impressionists like Monet, Gaudreault and like Monet, Manet, Cézanne, Van Gogh, or even the Nordic expressionists nordic expressionists. You can end your visit in front of the paintings of Mondrian, Chagall and Kandinsky, the leaders of modern art!
We advise you to visit it on Wednesdays in order to benefit from the free access to the permanent collection!
Kunsthaus : Heimplatz 1, 8 001 Zürich
1,200 fountains in Zürich: Free drinking in Zürich
Wherever you go in Zürich, you will find pure, fresh fresh drinking water from relatively large fountains that are free for everyone free for everyone.
There are more than 1,200 fountains dotted around that supply the city with drinking water. Zürich is one of the cities in the world with the largest number of fountains. Each one of them has its own story to tell. We will briefly tell you about two of them briefly about two of them that you should perhaps see:
Amazon Fountain of the Rennweg: It was in action in action around 1430 and has become a real work of public art thanks to its of public art thanks to its statuette.
Alfred-Escher Fountain at the main station: It has been there since 1889. The small statue of Alfred Escher in a triangle commemorates his most important achievements: He was not only a craftsman of the railroad, but also contributed to the genesis of the present Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the Credit Suisse at Paradeplatz.
The Fraumünster Church: in the heart of Zürich
When you see it from the outside, you may be its austere elegance, its sumptuous golden clock and its green spire and its slender green spire that pierces the clouds.
The interior, with its somewhat sober décor hides in fact some artistic wonders, stained glass windows painted by the Swiss artist artist Augusto Giacometti and by Marc Chagall.
If you contemplate these high and refined stained glass windows, you will fall under the magical spell of this avalanche of colors and the emblematic complexity that distinguish the works of Chagall’s work. But, if the stained glass windows date back to the twentieth century, the monument is much older!
The church of Fraumünster, at the same time and gothic, belonged to an abbey for women built in 853 whose cloister and the cloister and the abbey building were unfortunately demolished in the 19th century.
What to do for free in Zurich? Uetliberg
Maybe it’s time to treat yourself to some fresh air just a few steps from the city!
Few cities have the privilege of being right next to a mountain a mountain or even a hill. Zürich has this advantage, we are talking about the Uetliberg. Called the “summit of Zürich”, the hill dominates the city, its lake, and offers a beautiful panorama of the snowy peaks of the Alps.
But if you want an even more sensational panorama and you feel up to it, then the breathtaking view from the top of the the seventy-two meter high observation tower, which is located near the hotel Uto Kulm should charm you considerably and stimulate your adrenaline!
This site allows for a walk that the people of Zurich people in Zurich enjoy. If you are with your family, you can enjoy the picnic tables scattered all over the area. Sports enthusiasts will certainly love climbing the 821-meter high mountain on a mountain bike.
In the winter, the trails become sledding trails for sledging! Uetliberg can be reached easily from the train station from the train station by the Uetliberg Bahn or by bus. In about 20 minutes you can minutes, you will be filled with fresh air!
Visit the Swiss National Museum for free
The Swiss National Museum, which is located near the zurich’s main train station looks like a fairy tale castle. But, if you the patio, which is often accessible to visitors, you will see a modern building that the same merit as the original building in the historicist style in the historicist style.
The rooms of the National Museum house the most important the most important collection of Swiss cultural history. You certainly admire what is on display: Craftsmanship, artifacts, sculptures and paintings from prehistoric times to the present day tell compelling stories stories. In its temporary exhibitions, the museum tackles themes of themes of social importance.
Of course, you can rent a device to listen to to listen to audio guides in different languages, or you can or download the “Landesmuseum” application.
Free admission with Zürich Card.
Enjoy street art in the streets of Zürich
As you stroll through Zürich, you will certainly be be dazzled by the more than 1,300 works of art in the public space and the (there are more than 1,300 of them), which give the city a very special special.
Street art is an integral part of Zurich’s cultural life. You will notice it everywhere in the city
We recommend you to go and admire for example the Sculpture Pavilion, work of the artist Max Bill, made of granite, located in the middle of the bustling Bahnhofstrasse. Depending on the angle from which you look at it, Max Bill’s work appears to be about to come to life.
Urania Observatory – closer to the sky
In the heart of downtown Zürich, explorers have the opportunity to search the sky for celestial bodies. In the observatory’s 50-meter-high circular tower, there is a telescope that will help you admire the constellations with a magnification of up to 600
Whether you are observing the craters of the moon, the cloud banks surrounding Jupiter or the tower of the Fraumünster cathedral, a visit to the public observatory is always a must, because there you will have an unparalleled experience.
With the Zürich Card you get a 3% discount.
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