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Bern - the pearl of Switzerland

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Looking at the map of the Europe, you can hardly notice it, but it shines sometimes more brightly than the other European cities. The pearl of Switzerland – Bern, - uniting modern perception with medieval, reveals a harmonious combination of strict regulations and laws to an easy way of life of the local population.
Queen of GB Elizabeth II was quite right, having told during her visit in Bern that “Switzerland is paradise”. The name "Bern" originates from a German equivalent of a word "bear". It is also a symbol of the city where in specially built open-air cages “the Bear Pit” you can to see real bears.
Citizens have a saying: "Bern is Bern, in the same way, as God is God". What do they mean?! It is impossible to understand it without having plunged into the city entirely, studied its life and wandered along its little streets.
Beginning a journey across Bern, the only one knowledge that once on resorts of Bern had luxuriated Casanova himself, Lenin wrote the scientific works, and Grand Duchess has founded here a romantic garden - draws in our consciousnesses a picture from the past and we touch that time through the bright colours of our imagination.
In the central streets we meet numerous galleries and arcades of narrow streets, managing to gather crowds of tourists, dreaming to plunge into the past. The covered passages settled down in this fine city are unbelievably long, making about 6 km. The most interesting and surprising is that they have been erected even in the Middle Age whereas in other cities the similar thing has appeared only in the 19th century. Now it is one of the longest covered trading zones of the modern Europe with a multitude of shops, cafés and restaurants. Being involved in this simple bright roundabout, thousands of tourists buy thousands of souvenirs - art objects, well-known Swiss chocolate, Bern pies and even antique things; they also try national dishes – resty, Bern-snack which consists of a sauerkraut, Wienerwurst, meat and ham, spicy liver and a biscuit dessert.
Colours or the spirit of France are distinctly present in the constructions of façades of many houses. The historical centre of Bern with its unique fountains, such as Simpson and Zaringer, historical towers are an evident embodiment of the medieval European architecture. Bern is located on the peninsula created by the bend of the river Aary. The bridges laid through it make indelible impression of elegance. Fine walk on the water, twinkling blinks of light on the roofs of houses, an atmosphere of a fairy tale from the past and a whence reaching smell of chocolate – romanticism in this vain world, where everyone hurries somewhere for something.
The youth bathes freely on a public beach where, being poured the solar speckles, a stream of the cleanest transparent water crosses the city right in its heart. The most beautiful street of Bern – Marittasse where the buildings are located in an equal rank, - as if the architecture that created it obviously knew the future architectural ensemble of the general view of the city.
Near to this street there is the Albert Einstein's house-museum, in which the great physicist developed the theory of relativity, the most beautiful cathedral in Switzerland in late-Gothic style and the number of other sights, which beauty is unique and unsurpassed.
The person walking across Bern should notice that this city is literally impregnated with the love to art. Here is the Museum of fine arts with the biggest in the world collection of works of the well-known painter Paul Glue, which has spent his childhood and youth in the city.
A number of other great people worked and lived in this quiet city. The inhabitants of Bern are sometimes considered sluggish, but this happens because the life in city proceeds not too quickly, giving to thousand of tourists the possibility to take pleasure in rest and to hide from daily vanity. Probably that is why people say that this city “always smiles”.

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Article Submitted On: August 25, 2007