Don't miss this Swiss version of potato latkes. After peeling and shredding potatoes, squeezing out the liquid, adding finely chopped onion and bacon (optional ...

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These are the traditional fancy Swiss confection houses, where the sweets are made by hand, one at a time, with no preservatives. Worth the splurge ...

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No in-your-face peaks here, just soft rolling hills, grazing cows, some mighty fine eats, and in summer, Europeans getting away from it all. Centered on ...

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A humble hermitage founded by a monk named Gallus in A.D. 612 grew into this center of Swiss culture and commerce. It's an ...

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This was one of the Grand Tour's easy streets. After too many hours in horse-drawn carriages and hiking about, well-heeled Europeans rode a cogwheel ...

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Traffic-free Murren serves its outdoor pleasures straight up. Sitting at an elevation of 5,413 feet and home to fewer than 500 folks, this Bernese ...

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The city has a new vibrancy, one that transcends international banking and the pretty jetting fountain in Lake Geneva. You can sense it in Spanish ...

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Isolated from the rest of Switzerland for centuries by high Alpine passes (hurdles now handled by long, long tunnels), the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino has ...

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How is it that some places never lose their allure for creative types? Mark Twain loved this centuries-old Swiss city that rises from its namesake ...

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The Swiss capital is a tidy German-accented city embraced by the Aare River. Bern's beautifully preserved medieval Old Town, now a World Heritage site ...

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