Background: The Swiss Confederation was founded in 1291 as a defensive alliance among three cantons. In succeeding years, other localities joined the original three. The Swiss Confederation secured its independence from the Holy Roman Empire in 1499. Switzerland's sovreignty and neutrality have long been honored by the major European powers, and the country was not involved in either of the two World Wars. The political and economic integration of Europe over the past half century, as well as Switzerland's role in many UN and international organizations, has strengthened Switzerland's ties with its neighbors. However, the country did not officially become a UN member until 2002. Switzerland remains active in many UN and international organizations, but retains a strong commitment to neutrality.
July 2nd 2008Europe » Switzerland » North-East » Zürich
Las fotos del final de la Eurocopa entre España y Alemania... Viva España!
Mi mejor amiga (Rebecca) y yo miramos juntas el match en Zurich con tantos fans de España y muy pocos de Alemania :) B ... 5 photos[full story]
June 1st 2008Europe » Switzerland » North-East » Zürich Sunday 1st June
Today's trip to Zurich was going to be a doddle as there was only a single change at Visp and we had plenty of time to make the transfer.
We caught the hotel's little electric ca ... 3 photos[full story]
June 25th 2008Europe » Switzerland » North-East » Zürich Gidday
Its taken a couple of days to get used to being back in the Western world. Primarily just the little things, like cars stopping for you at the pedestrian crossings (and the speed at which th ... 10 photos[full story]
June 22nd 2008Europe » Switzerland » North-East » Zürich Hi,
Too busy and sometimes unable to work the internet keyboard, so forget <turkey.
<now in <switzerland visiting friends. <they have been terrific hosts and been showing us around their ... [full story]
June 11th 2008Europe » Switzerland » North-East » Zürich So we hit zurich on sat as we could onlyfly from paris to London via zurich and figured we would make a stopover of it...
Sat night also happened to be the opening of the euro 2008 football champio ... 8 photos[full story]
June 5th 2008Europe » Switzerland » North-East » Zürich Alors!
Arrivée a Zurich, visite de musées, visite de la ville, tout sent tellement bon a Zurich, la ville des fleurs et des parcs! ... 14 photos[full story]
June 4th 2008Europe » Switzerland » North-East » Zürich 23rd and 24th May
We left about 7:15am for a train to take us from Kolback (near Hallstahammar) to Katrineholm to then catch the train to Oslo. Our ticket to Oslo was from Stockholm but it was much ... 54 photos[full story]
May 30th 2008Europe » Switzerland » North-East » Zürich One of my main reasons for getting up to Brussels early, besides all the extra sightseeing, was to visit the King Leopold II's Central African Museum. Technically outside of Brussels (it's in the Flem ... [full story]
May 29th 2008Europe » Switzerland » North-East » Zürich My last day in Switzerland :( I am in Zurich and it is some unholy temperature (high 20s I think, if not more). Checked out of my hotel at 9.30am and put my case into a locker at Zurich train statio ... [full story]
April 14th 2007Europe » Switzerland » North-East » Zürich My friend Vanessa used to talk about all the time, about how often she goes to zurich. my friend tanya and i were fascinated and were curious to go; neither of us having been in switzerland. we were ... 8 photos[full story]
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