The Protestant Münster, as the people of Bern call the Cathedral, is the largest church not only in the city, but in the whole of Switzerland. The late Gothic building was begun in 1421 on the site of a small chapel belonging to the Teutonic... read more
Zeitglockenturm, or Clock Tower, is located right in the heart of Bern's historic Old Town. It was named after the large multifunctional clock made by the blacksmith Caspar Brunner in 1530. There are five mechanisms in one clock case, which ar... read more
Almost every square and some streets in Bern are decorated with small fountains, created according to one pattern: a column rises above a small bowl, on which some colourful figure is mounted. These characters were mostly made by the famous sculpt... read more
The Church of the Holy Spirit in Bern was built between 1726 and 1729 on the ruins of the older Spitalkirche church, which belonged to the Monastery of St. Spirit. Temples had been built on this site since the arrival of Christianity in this land.... read more
