Zurich in central Switzerland is among Europe’s coolest cities to visit and it provides from very wide and interesting range of centers of the tourist attractions and activities. Below are listed some most common and attractive activities that a person can enjoy in Zurich.

•    Excursions: Zurich is an ideal spot for many a good numbers of excursion tours around the area. The excursion tour on railway carries one primarily through the picturesque and scenic journey through woods. On the excursion tour around the Zurich area you can enjoy and there can have a fine view of the snowy summits of the Alps, you there can climb up even at the steep path to the nearby terrace of the hotel-restaurant. More you can have luxury of reaching at the top of the   Belvedere Tower from where you can see a panoramic and wider view of the entire Zurich district, the Limmat Valley, Lake Zurich and the Alpine range as even from Säntis in the east to the Jungfrau and the Les Diablerets in the southwest.

•    Rapperswil – City of Roses: This is another very interesting and preferred single day excursion tour from Zurich. Rapperswil is a too small town situated as opposite to the Lake Zurich. It provides the unique center of attractions for a touring visitor. The list of center of attractions there includes as – the Rose Gardens, the Castle, the deer park on the Lindenhof and the picturesque Old Town. You even can lodge on a train in the morning along Lake Zurich to get to at Rapperswil. There you can have lunch at in one of the restaurants on the quay and in the afternoon take a lake steamer back to Zurich.

•    Chocolate Factory: Another interesting spot as to visit and tour in Zurich is The Lindt & Sprüngli chocolate factory about a few kilometers away at the south of the city center at Seestrasse 204. This is a free museum and where a self-congratulatory film can be screened for ones enjoyment and mercy and merry making. These facilities hardly remain open and one needs to make a prior phone call in order to enjoy them entirely.

More than these designated sport activities the city is most popular and is quite laurelled for the summer sports and a good number of swimming activities out there. The most popular spot for summer activities here includes as are Utoquai on the east shore of the lake and Mythenquai on the west shore. There are too many other famous and free swimming spots in the city as well they are located on the confluence of the Sihl and Limmat Rivers. As for strolling there at around the shores of Lake Zurich, there concrete walkways give way to trees and lawns in the Arboretum on the west bank.

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich or preferable said as the ETH Zürich (ETHZ) is an engineering, science and technology university in the City of Zurich. Similar to its associate institute École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), is an integral part of the ETH Domain that is directly works under the Federal Department of Home Affairs.

ETHZ has reputation being as one of the top ranked universities of the world and many a times are equated as equivalent to the   American M.I.T. As according to the focus and attentions that it pays to the leading research and academic excellence, it is ranked globally as a 7th best university in Engineering, Science and Technology. 21 Nobel Prizes have been given to students or professors that passed out or taught at this institute. The most notable is the Albert Einstein in 1921, and the most recent is F. Heck in 2010. It is also a pioneering member of the IDEA League and the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU).

It is a member of Top Industrial Managers for Europe network. The college came into the existence as of the effort from the Swiss Federal Government in 1854 as with straight off objective of teaching engineers and scientist, served as a national center of excellence in science and technology to give a hub as an interaction between the scientific community and industry. Initially started as schools it open this door in 1855 as a polytechnic institute at start it had the six departments comprising architecture, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, chemistry, forestry, and a catch-all department for mathematics, natural sciences, literature, and social and political sciences. It is sill known as Poly the name derived from its original name Eidgenössisches Polytechnikum “Federal Polytechnic Institute”.

In structure ETH is a federal institute in comparison to the University of Zurich that is a cantonal institution. In 1909, the course program of ETH was modified as according to the norms of a real university, from its early, very schoolish agenda, and ETH had the right to offer away doctorates. In 1911, it was provides its current name, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule. In 1924, reorganization formed the university in about 12 departments. At present, the university has 16 departments. ETH is not selective in its undergraduate admission procedures. It has like any other public university in Switzerland, is bounded to give admission to every Swiss citizen who took the Matura. The university is also open for foreign students as well having the certain qualifications like as A-Levels with GCSE, but with the specific combinations and nurtures. At under graduate level the learning is given in German while English is the language of teaching at Master’s and graduate studies.

The Centre Le Corbusier or Heidi Weber Museum is a sophisticated and state of the art museum aptly according to the name of legendary Swiss architect Le Corbusier for whom memory and works this museum is made. The museum in city of Zurich is dedicated to the work of the Swiss architect Le Corbusier. In year, 1960, the Heidi Weber came up with an idea to form a museum designed and developed by Le Corbusier. The purpose of the museum as conceptualized by Heidi was to show out and exhibit the works of the architect in an ideal environment. The building thus is situated at the shore of the Lake Zürich nearby Zürichhorn in the Seefeld quarter. One can reach the museum in span of 20 minutes while on his feet from Bellevue or by any mode of public transport.

The museum building is the last building designed by Le Corbusier and therefore he made an important change into the building while using enough concrete and stone as framed in steel and glass. Le Corbusier employed excessive use of prefabricated steel elements combined with multi-coloured enamelled plates fitted to the central core, and above the complex he therefore designed a ‘free-floating’ roof as to keep the house aptly protected from the rain and sun. For the construction of the museum in year 1960 Le Corbusier commissioned Heidi Weber, a Swiss art collector and patron, to design a public exhibition building. After a year the first blue print of the building as to be made in concrete was presented and in the year 1962, the concept was entirely transferred to be a steel building. The actual construction work began after two years. In year 1965 Le Corbusier died, there on July 15, 1967, the Centre Le Corbusier was inaugurated, officially.

In its architectural design the most noticeable section is its roof, which is consisted of two square parts and each, having the dimensions of 12 x 12 meters. Its entire ground surface measures as 12 x 26.3 meters as about 86 ft. It is made of the welded metal sheets and has a weight of around 40 tons. The roof was prefabricated and was transported to the site as in biggest possible units.  The structure has about two floors, one is the five single storied and one double storied rooms. In constructing the structure, about 20,000 bolts were employed and used. The museum in its totality, harmonizes the Le Corbusier’s architecture, sculptures, paintings, furniture designs and his writings that are therefore are listed as a Swiss heritage site of national importance.

The old Botanical Garden Zürich is a botanical garden and arboretum in Zürich, Switzerland. However, officially, there are about two botanical gardens as ranging to the University of Zurich. In 1977, there open a new facilities at Zollikerstrasse in Weinegg quarter (district 8), and there so named Botanical garden at the former «zur Katz» bastion in City quarter near to Sihlporte. The existence of the first botanical garden was based upon the Conrad Gessner’s private herbarium. Gessner descendant, physician and naturalist Johannes Gessner established in 1746 Zürich’s first botanical garden, in coordination with botanical society. In 1833, the Canton of Zurich changed this first location at Schimmelgut as the University of Zurich was founded. The new garden was designed by the University’s gardener Leopold Karl Theodor Fröbel. In 1851, it’s a greenhouse was started there as it was made up of the glass and wood. In 1877, the octagonal glass pavilion of the garden was fixed with an iron frame. Presently, the pavilion is used for concerts, theater and exhibitions.

The terrain of the garden was restricted by structures and buildings surrounding it even from outside as well. In the second half of the 20th century, an urgently needed expansion for the garden was preventive as it was surrounded with skyscrapers from outside.  As Botanical buildings were in bad shape, therefore, the administration there decided to move from the city center to Zürich’s periphery, as there was an ample place and spot to expand there. In 1971, the old park of Bodmer-Abegg family was found and in 1976, the new botanical garden was opened in Weinegg quarter. Facilities as stared from 1851 to 1976 to be restored. The Botanical Garden of the University of Zurich, since 1976 it’s a recreation area and location of the Völkerkundemuseum of the University of Zürich, site of an arboretum and thus is named as Gessner-Garten.

Another garden as on the Gessner-Garten on the hilltop, is a medieval herb garden, and resembles to Conrad Gessner. There at the highest point of the former ramparts, the southern gun bastion of the Fortifications of Zürich is located. The fortication’s guns were used to be named as Katz. Operational since May 27, 1997, the garden was constructed by horticultural companies and financed by the Pro Katz foundation.  At the northern side o f the herb garden, one can find the Conrad Gessner memorial. The Gessner garden exhibits about 50 medicinal plants as employed by 16th century’s healers. Each plant is named after the names of healer as Cynara cardunculus, Potentilla erecta, Linum usitatissimum, Paeonia officinalis, Silybum marianum, Juniperus communis, Fragaria vesca, and others.

The Rietberg Museum in Zürich, shows the works of the Asian, African, American and Oceanian art and it is the only museum of non European cultures in Switzerland. This is the third largest museum itself in Zurich and largest to be operated and run by the city of Zurich, itself. It is annually visited by about 200,000 visitors, annually.

The Museum is located in around 17 acres Rieterpark in central Zürich, and contains many historical buildings in it like the Wesendonck Villa, the Remise, the Rieter Park-Villa, and the Schönberg Villa. In 2007, a new building designed by Alfred Grazioli and Adolf Krischanitz was inaugurated for the public viewing. After the addition of this building the entire exhibition space to the museum has been extended to the double fold. The Rieterpark is located near Zürich Enge station, and can also be reached by the tram line.

It was in the early 1940s the city of Zürich procured the Rieterpark and the Wesendonck Villa. In 1949 the Wesendonck Villa was selected, by opinion to be reconstructed as a museum for the Baron Eduard von der Heydt’s art collection that he gave to the city in 1945. It was thus further carried out in 1951-52 under the architectural direction of Alfred Gradmann. The Rietberg Museum was opened on 24 May 1952. Until 1956 the director was Johannes Itten, who was the Swiss expressionist painter. In 1976, the city of Zürich obtained the Schönberg Villa, that was about to be demolished thus further used as the extension to the museum. Presently, Villa is home to a massive non lending library as controlled by the museum.

The Rietberg Museum is controlled by the presidential department of the city of Zürich and employs about 100 people. Around half of its funding comes from the city of Zurich, whereas another half is raised through revenue, sponsorship and charity. The collections here at the museum mostly get enriched by donations. The museum also has an in house museum that opens immediately after its start in 1952. At the beginning it published catalogues of the museum’s Asian and African artworks, as well as rather short monographs. The museum’s publishing activity therefore has risen to the level since 1985 in relation to large scale special exhibition center that it has organized since then. Presently, it publishes around six titles every year.