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  2. 3 days agoSwitzerland - Multiculturalism, Cuisine, Alps: Switzerland has often seen itself, or has been seen by others, as a "special case" (Sonderfall), largely because of multilingualism, its diversified cultural patchwork, and its institutions, but also because of its economic success after World War II. Although some of the political and institutional peculiarities still persist, the rapid ...
  3. 7 days agoA landlocked country of towering mountains, deep Alpine lakes, grassy valleys dotted with neat farms and small villages, and thriving cities that blend the old and the new, Switzerland is the nexus of the diverse physical and cultural geography of western Europe, renowned for both its natural beauty and its way of life. Aspects of both have become bywords for the country, whose very name ...
  4. 7 days agoSwitzerland - Alps, Banking, Neutrality: Folk arts in Switzerland include music, poetry (usually song), dance, wood carving, and embroidery. In the cattle-breeding northern areas, there are many traditional forms of song and music, involving, for example, the yodel, a type of singing in which high falsetto and low chest notes are rapidly alternated.
  5. Jan 1, 2025Switzerland - Museums, Libraries, Universities: The arts are championed by renowned museums not only in cities such as Basel, Zürich, and Geneva but also in small towns such as Winterthur and Schaffhausen, which are cultural bastions far beyond the usual provincial standards. One example is the Pierre Gianadda Foundation, built over Roman ruins in Martigny.
  6. Jan 16, 2025Switzerland - Federalism, Multiculturalism, Neutrality: Switzerland's constitution (modeled after that of the United States) was adopted in 1848 and substantially revised in 1874. A thoroughly revised constitution, approved by three-fifths of voters, entered into force in 2000, though the changes were mainly formal, with little alteration to the structure of Switzerland's government.
  7. 5 days agoGeneva, city, capital of Genève canton, in the far southwestern corner of Switzerland that juts into France.One of Europe's most cosmopolitan cities, Geneva has served as a model for republican government and owes its preeminence to the triumph of human, rather than geographic, factors. It developed its unique character from the 16th century, when, as the centre of the Calvinist Reformation ...
  8. 3 days agoSwitzerland - Alps, Neutrality, Confederation: Switzerland's history is one of a medieval defensive league formed during a time and in an area lacking imperial authority. The different cantons (traditionally called Orte in German) were to a large extent independent states that remained united through the shared defense of liberty, which was understood as the protection of imperial privileges ...
  9. 7 days agoSwitzerland - Neutrality, Multiculturalism, Alps: At the national level, where there were almost no permanent common institutions other than the Diet, immobility was the result of the contrasting political and confessional options, which rendered impossible the accession of new cantons, though there was some interest from Geneva, Neuchâtel, and the Roman Catholic bishop of Basel.
  10. 3 days agoSwitzerland - Alps, Confederation, Cantons: Switzerland's then biggest town, Basel, became a cultural centre as a result of the Council of Basel (1431-49), the foundation of its university (1460), and its printing industry, which attracted famed Renaissance scholar Desiderius Erasmus, whose Christian philosophy became the heart of humanism in Switzerland.
  11. Jan 14, 2025Switzerland - Alpine, Multicultural, Federalism: The diversity of geomorphology, climate, and plant distribution in Switzerland provides a wide variety of settlement sites, a variety further enhanced by the country's central European location. Rural settlements predominate in the valleys, where characteristic Alpine villages extend along the base of slopes. Since the creation of extensive ...

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