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Basel, Switzerland's third largest city in the northwest of the Rhine and Birs rivers.

Basel is situated at the border triangle of Switzerland, Germany and France and forms together with the villages Riehen and Bettingen the canton of Basel-Stadt, whose capital it is.

Grossbasel quarters: Old Town, Am Ring, Bachletten, Breite, Bruderholz, Gotthelf, Gundeldingen, Iselin, St. Johann and suburbs.

 Kleinbasel quarters: Old Town, Clara, Hirzbrunnen, Kleinhüningen, Klybeck, Matthew, Rose Valley and Wettstein.


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Car Rental Basel

  Sixt   -    

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Hotels Basel 

  Hotel Guide Basel [ Booking ]



 
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Tour operators 

  Treyn Rail Holidays
Escorted Switzerland Train Holidays / Great value Rail Holidays in Switzerland.

  lastminute.com

  Thomas Cook

  G Adventures 

 Sherpa Expeditions
Walking holidays in Zwitserland.

  Swiss Travel System
STS products include train transfer tickets from airport to resort and train passes for the entire Swiss public transportation network from 4 - 30 days.

Kuoni   -   Family holidays, Spa holidays



Travel Guides Basel / Related books 

Travel Guides Switzerland  [ amazon.co.uk ]

  Dorling Kindersley   -    

Transport / How do I travel to Basel 

  Basel Airport  =  EuroAirport [ Basel / Mulhouse / Freiburg [ BSL ]   -   5.2 km
  Belp (BRN) 72.1 km
  Kloten (ZRH) 72.6 km
  Les Eplatures (ZHV) 79.9 km

  

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Flying to Basel from London, Birmingham & Manchester.

 
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  Basel   -   Region and City   -   Basel Tourismus
Basel lies on both sides of the Rhine, on the western shore is Great Basel and at the eastern Klein Basel.

  Altstadt   -   Old Town of Basel
  Bank Building Aeschenplatz   -   Mario Botta
  Basel Zoo
  BIZ by Mario Botta
 There, where the Zetralbanken jack into the hand, in the striking circular building by Mario Botta on Aeschenplatz, today you will find the Bank for International Settlements.
  Botanical Garden of the University of Basel
  Exhibition Tower of Morger & Degelo
The Basel Trade Fair Tower, 105 meters high, dominates the town and represents the cosmopolitan Basel.
  Fondation Beyeler   -   Museum designed by Renzo Piano
With the opening in October 1997, the Beyeler Collection a public museum. Besides works by Cézanne, Picasso, Rousseau, Mondrian, Klee, Ernst, Matisse, Newman, Bacon, Dubuffet, Baselitz, etc. includes art collection 25 objects from Africa, Alaska and the Pacific, in a direct dialogue with the works of classical Modern stand up.
  Historical Museum of Basel
The Historical Museum of Basel houses the most comprehensive collection of cultural history in the Upper Rhine and is one of the great museums of its kind in Switzerland.
  Kunstmuseum Basel
  Market Place and Town Hall
  Merian Park, Botanical Garden in Brüglingen
  Messeturm
With its height of 105 meters [31 floors] Basel Trade Fair is the highest habitable building in Switzerland. Designed by Morger & Degelo & Daniele Marques. Seen from France and Germany. A symbol for the openness of Basel to the world. A restaurant and bar with breathtaking views over Basel.
  Museum Jean Tinguely Basel   -   Mario Botta
The museum is the life and work of the late 1991 major iron sculptor Jean Tinguely.
  Munster   -   dominates the town of Basel
  Office Elsässertor
Office between Central Station and Central Railway Road, a major thoroughfare. The edges along the longest side, facing the street and the track, consisting of floor high glass panels, each with a different angle, creating the historic environment increasingly reflected at a different angle. Designed by the Basel-based Herzog & de Meuron Architekten Architektenbuerau the same responsible for the National Stadium in Beijing [2008] and the Allianz Arena in Munich [2005].
  Novartis Office Building   -   Diener, Federle and Wied Erin
The 'Werkareal St. Johann in Basel "[while the headquarters of Novartis] with both its numerous offices and research buildings, and production should become a Campus of Knowledge, Innovation and Meeting ..... See Architonic.com - Novartis Campus
  Peter-Merian-Haus   -   Hans Zwimpfer, with facades of Donald Judd
The Peter Merian Haus is at the train station in Basel between Bahngleisfeld, Nauenstrasse Peter Merian and the bridge. In collaboration with artist Donald Judd was based on a uniform ecological assumptions glass facade. Robert Morris and Sol LeWitt alongside Judd as one of the chief representatives of Minimal Art. See Donald Judd to Wikipedia
  Rheinhafen / triangle
  Schaulager
Schaulager is also a unique place where art is seen differently and think differently about art. It is aimed at a professional audience. See http://www.schaulager.org/
  Spalentor
  St. Alban-Tor
The St. Alban Gate is preserved from the last and biggest city walls of Basel.
  St. Johanns-Tor
The St. John's Gate was once part of the third mediaeval ring of fortifications that was taken shortly after the great earthquake of 1356 the whole city.
  Tinguely Fountain
  Wildtsches house
The house was built in 1762-1764 by Wild Czech Johann Jakob Fechter (1717-1797) for the silk ribbon manufacturer Jeremias Wildt-Socin.

  Bettingen   -   http://www.bettingen.ch/
  Riehen   -   http://www.riehen.ch/

  Dreiland :  Grenzach-Wyhlen (D), Lörrach (D), Weil am Rhein (D), Saint-Louis (F) und Mulhouse (F).

  Vitra
 In the field of furniture manufacturer Vitra in Basel belonging to the trinational agglomeration German town of Weil am Rhein are important buildings such as Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, Tadao Ando and Álvaro Siza.

  Birs - river
The Birs springs from a source at 760 meters altitude, south west of the Bernese Jura Tavannes. Here it is right away a real river as the water comes from an underground river system. The last part of the Birs is the separation between the two half cantons of Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft.
  Rhine ['rei' meaning streams in Indo-European]
 The Rhine River begins its course in Grisons [Swiss Alps], where two source rivers [For the Rhine and the Rhine behind] spring.

Cuisine 

The unique location in the triangle guarantees top quality food and variety on the menu.

  Basel.com   -   Restaurant finder

History

740 Basel became bishop city and the place undergone a stormy development mainly because the bishops of Basel were powerful people.
In 1501 Basel joined the Swiss confederation as a the Basel canton.

  History of Basel

  Basel Museums

Music,  Art & Culture, Events

  Basel Sinfonietta   -   orchestra of some 80 professional musicians and musicians.
  Basler Bach Choir
  Basel Choral Society
The Basel Choral Society (BGV) is one of the great concert mixed choirs in the Basel area.
  Basel Convention music
The Basel Convention Music is the umbrella organization of mainly classical concert promoters in our region.
  Basler solo recitals 

Basel is one of Europe's leading centers for contemporary architecture. See e.g. Danda.be.

Basel has over 40 museums of which the Kunsthalle, the Fondation Beyeler and Antikenmuseum are the most important.

   Botta   -   Swiss architect
Mario Botta [ 1943, Mendrisio, Italian speaking area Ticino ] studied at the Liceo Artistico in Milan and the Istituto Universitario di Architettura in Venice. His thinking is influenced by Le Corbusier, Carlo Scarpa and Louis Kahn.
  Tinguely   -   Artist, sculptor, raised in Basel
Mainly known for his kinetic art. Nouveau Realist, a French art movement related to Pop Art movement. French Dadaism influence strongly felt in his work. Kinetic art is about "movements" in art. Tinguely's installations can move either through the viewer or automatically [eg by wind]. See Wikipedia.

  General Music Society Basel   -   Basel Concerts
The Universal Music Company is the largest concert promoter for classical concerts in Basel.
  Arena Riehen
The arena is a place of encounter with living literature.
  Atlantis   -   Atlantis is a restaurant, club and concert venue.

  Swiss Drumming
The festival, where all drummers whith hearts pledged to Swiss drumming have been looking for throughout the year, is the Basler Fasnacht.
Three days of drumming and parties in an atmosphere that is not to describe. The Fasnacht is the Carnival of Basel, where it's in a large part all about the music. Thousands of drummers and pipers are walking three days long through the city. In addition, they are dressed in the most fantastic outfits. An important part of this outfit is a mask which is made of a kind paper mache in which by painting a unique expression is created.
During the Basler Fasnacht mainly traditional marches are played. The groups (Cliquen) you see often crisscross each other. During Fasnach you can two types of groups: Traditional Cliquen and Guggemusik. See Basler Fasnacht.


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