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Overview
While browsing in the elegant boutiques along
Zurich’s Bahnhofstrasse, one of the most beautiful
shopping areas in Europe, you’ll notice that
the streets may not be paved with gold, but
you can be certain that a couple of metres
below, unimaginable treasures are lying in
underground vaults. Zurich is the world’s
banking capital, but as well as being a city
of fat cats parading in pin-stripes, glued
to their mobile phones and swinging patent
leather briefcases, you’ll also discover that
this is the city that gave birth to the avant-garde
Dadaist movement, and where James Joyce wrote
Ulysses. The city’s Museum of Fine Arts houses
one of Europe’s most extensive collections
from 15th century religious iconography to
the modern art works of Dali, Arp, Hockney,
Cezanne, Monet, Gaugin, Munch and Picasso.
Fraumünster Church
Of the church spires that characterise
Zurich’s skyline, the thin blue spire of Fraumünster
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