Zürich District
Zurich District is a district of the Swiss canton of Zurich in Switzerland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: district of the canton of Zürich with 422,000 residents
- Description: district in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Bezirk Zuerich”, “Bezirk Zürich”, “Zürich”, and “Zurich District”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Zurich Main Station and Zurich Opera House.
Zurich Main Station
Railway station
Photo: Ikiwaner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Zürich Hauptbahnhof, often shortened to Zürich HB or just HB, and known in English as Zurich Main Station, is the largest railway station in Switzerland and one of the busiest in Europe.
Zurich Opera House
Theater building
Photo: Roland zh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Zurich Opera House is an opera house in the Swiss city of Zurich. Located at the Sechseläutenplatz, it has been the home of the Zurich Opera since 1891, and also houses the Bernhard-Theater Zürich.
Cabaret Voltaire
Arts center
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Cabaret Voltaire is the birthplace of the Dada art movement, founded in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1916. It was founded by Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings as a cabaret intended for artistic and political purposes.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zurich and Wiedikon.
Zurich
Photo: ויקיג’אנקי, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and an international financial centre. Zurich is close to some excellent skiing resorts and many people headed for the Swiss Alps don't spend much time in Zurich itself, but you'd be missing a lot if you don't explore Zurich.
Wiedikon
Suburb
Wiedikon is a district in the Swiss city of Zurich. It corresponds to District number 3 and comprises the neighborhoods of Alt-Wiedikon, Sihlfeld and Friesenberg. Wiedikon was formerly a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into Zurich in 1893.
Aussersihl
Suburb
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Aussersihl is a district in the Swiss city of Zürich. Known officially as District number 4, the district is known as colloquially Chreis Cheib, cheib being the Zürich German word for an animal cadaver.
Zürich District
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Zürich District” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقاطعة زيورخ”
- Armenian: “Ցյուրիխ”
- Asturian: “Distritu de Zúrich”
- Basque: “Zürich barrutia”
- Belarusian: “Цюрых”
- Catalan: “Districte de Zuric”
- Catalan: “Districte de Zúric”
- Catalan: “Districte de Zurich”
- Catalan: “Districte de Zürich”
- Cebuano: “Bezirk Zürich”
- Chinese: “Zürich Koān”
- Chinese: “苏黎世区”
- Chuvash: “Цюрих”
- Czech: “Okres Curych”
- Dutch: “Zürich”
- Esperanto: “Distrikto Zuriko”
- Esperanto: “Zuriko”
- French: “district de Zurich”
- French: “District de Zurich”
- French: “District de Zürich”
- German: “Bezirk Zürich”
- German: “Zürich”
- Italian: “distretto di Zurigo”
- Italian: “Distretto di Zurigo”
- Japanese: “チューリッヒ区”
- Latin: “Turicum” (historical)
- Lombard: “Zürigh”
- Luxembourgish: “Distrikt Zürich”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Zürich Koān”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Distriktet Zürich”
- Polish: “Okręg Zurych”
- Portuguese: “distrito de Zurique”
- Portuguese: “Distrito de Zurique”
- Russian: “Цюрих”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Zurich”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Zúrich”
- Swedish: “Bezirk Zürich”
- Swiss German: “Bezirk Züri”
- Swiss German: “Zürich”
- Thai: “เขตซือริช”
- Tosk Albanian: “Bezirk Zürich”
- Turkish: “Zürih (bölge)”
- Turkish: “Zürih”
- Ukrainian: “Цюрих”
- Ukrainian: “Цюріх”
- Urdu: “ضلع زیورخ”
- Venetian: “Distreto de Xurigo”
- Venetian: “Zurigo”
- Vietnamese: “Zürich”
- Waray (Philippines): “Zürich”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Altstadt and Rathaus.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include town hall and Hotel Storchen Zürich.
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