Zurich is one of the prominent cities of Switzerland that can be visited for being relaxed and remaining cool and calm during holiday and vacations. The city presents a good number of attractive places and landmarks to visit and roam through. There exists a good number of good numbers of places in Zurich to look around and be roamed.

•    Fraumünster: The Fraumünster abbey of Zürich was built in 853 by Louis the German for his daughter Hildegard. He provided the Benedictine convent with the lands of Zürich, Uri, and the Albis forest, and granted keep it under his direct control to provide it immunity and patronage. In 1045, by the King Henry III the convent received the right to hold markets, collect tolls, and mint coins, and thus let the abbess with power to rule the city. Emperor Frederick II granted the abbey Reichsunmittelbarkeit in 1218, so made it therefore independent of all authority and increased the political power of the abbess. The abbess assigned the mayor, and she frequently delegated the minting of coins to citizens of the city. However, by the fourteenth century the political power of the convent soon dwindled down with formation of the Zunftordnung (guild laws) in 1336 by Rudolf Brun, who became the ever first independent mayor of the city.By the 1524 the abbey was entirely dissolved on the course of the reformation of Huldrych Zwingli. The monastery buildings were destroyed in 1898 to make room for the new Stadthaus. The church building presently works as one of the city’s 34 reformed parishes.

•    Landesmuseum: The Swiss National Museum is a part of the Musée Suisse Group, and is affiliated to the Federal Office of Culture and is one of the most important art museums of cultural history in Europe and the world. It is situated at the city of Zurich, Switzerland’s largest city, next to the Hauptbahnhof. The museum is situated in 1898 historicist style and was constructed by the Gustav Gull in the form of the French Renaissance city chateaus. The exhibits in the museum are consisted from prehistoric time to modern period. There is a very rich section in museum with very rich gothic art, chivalry and comprehensive collection of liturgical wooden sculptures, panel paintings and carved altars. Zunfthaus zur Meisen near Fraumünster church houses the porcelain and faience collection of the Swiss National Museum.

•    Kunsthaus: It is one of the most important art museums in Switzerland and Europe, collected by the local Kunstverein, called Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft. Its collection ranges from the middle Ages to contemporary art, with special focus on Swiss art. Kunsthaus too is the tram stop next to the museum, properly on Pfauenplatz, between the museum building and the Schauspielhaus Zürich.

•    Langstrasse: It is a street and quarter in district 4 in Zurich Lanfstrass. With population of around 10,500 on an area of 1.13km, it is notorious as Zurich’s red light area, with an extended crime rate, drug dealing and brothels. It further is the most multicultural area in Zurich with around 42% foreign residents living in this area. As the historical quarter of factory workers during Industrialisation, Aussersihl is also being the traditional site of May Day manifestations.

•    Chinese Garden: It is a Chinese garden in Zurich situated at Seefeld quarter.  It is known to be as a gift from Zurich’s partner town Kunming, dedicated to the Three Friends in winter.  Chinese garden is situated next to the Center Le Corbusier between Blatterwiese and Bellerivestrasse nearby Zürichhorn on the right shore of Lake Zürich. From the start of summer season, the garden remains open from March 18 to October 18. In order to express Zurich’s gratitude for its technical and scientific in the development of the Kunming city drinking water supply and drainage, it gifted this city to Zurich.

•    Lindenhof: In the old town of Zurich it is a historical site of the Roman castle and later on of Carolingian Kaiserpfalz. It is located on the Lindenhof hill, situated to the left at the Schipfe. The castle was remain intact from the 5th to 6th century, but was derelict by the 9th century, when it was reconstructed as a residence for Louis the German, that turned dilapidated and was used as quarry by the 13th century. In 1798, the citizens of Zürich swore the oath on the constitution of the Helvetic Republic on the Lindenhof. While at current period it became a recreational space, a green oasis and automatic free space of the old historic city center.

•    Bahnhofstrasse: It is Zurich’s primary downtown street and has reputation of being one of the world’s most expensive and extraordinary shopping avenues. In a survey recently conducted in 2010 named the Bahnhfstrasse the third most expensive city for retail property in Europe and it is the fifth most expensive market, globally.

•    Grossmünster: The Grossmünster is a Romanesque-style church which reserved a very promoting role in the history of the Protestant Reformation. It is one of the three major churches of Zürich.  The core of the present building near the banks of the Limmat River was made on the site of a Carolingian church that according to legend, in reality commissioned by Charlemagne. The present building of the church was made during 1100 and got inaugurated in 1220. According to legend, the Grossmünster was founded by Charlemagne, whose horse fell to its knees over the tombs of Felix and Regula, Zürich’s patron saints. The present archaeological evidence shows the presence of a Roman burial ground at the site.