Bern Unesco World Heritage Site Walking Tour

3 hours Free cancellation Private tour

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About this activity

The old town of Bern is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Legend states that Duke Berchthold of Zahringen named the city after the first animal he killed during a hunting expedition: it was a Bear!

Here you will enjoy a medieval air of the city with its Renaissance fountains, narrow streets and historic towers... and not only!

During our tour we will:

taste the best, according to the version of the last few years, the country's chocolate. And it's not about Toblerone, who, by the way, is also from Bern.

We will see a very unusual restaurant, it is better to book a table in it in advance, where the French invaders died drowning in wine.

Find out where Bernese gin is produced (you can learn how to cook it, for extra money, by prior arrangement)

take a picture at three monuments to Einstein.

We will visit a perfume studio where you can make your perfect perfume (for extra money, by prior arrangement).

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At a glance

Duration: 3 hours
Confirmation: Confirmed within 48 hours
Ticket: Mobile or paper ticket accepted
Group: Your group only
People per booking: 1–6
Guide: Russian, Ukrainian, English, Italian
Operated by: Iuliia Solodenko

What is included

Included

Included: Guiding Services

Not included

Not included: Bern Cathedral tower 5 CHF; Einstein house 7 CHF

Itinerary

Berner Munster

40 min Admission not included

The Bern Münster Cathedral is the most impressive and important late medieval church in Switzerland.

From the Swiss capital’s 101-metre high cathedral you may admire the magnificent view over the old city, of the Aare river, the Alps and the Matte.
Clock Tower - Zytglogge

10 min Admission included

Zytglogge, the 15th century astrological clock in Bern. The tower was built in the 13th century and was part of the fortress wall of the Cityland has served the city as guard tower, prison, clock tower, center of urban life.
Einstein House (Einsteinhaus)

15 min Admission not included

Albert Einstein lived in Bern from 1903 to 1905 and developed his Theory of Relativity in this house. Albert Einstein rented this flat from 1903 to 1905 and lived there with his wife Mileva and son Hans Albert. They are some voices that Mileva and Albert have worked on the theory of relativity together, but her name was not on the work, nevertheless he gave the Nobel Prize in full to his then ex-wife.
Parliament Building

15 min Admission not included

Bern was chosen as the Federal Capital of Switzerland in 1848 thanks to its central location between the German- and French-speaking parts of the country. The parliament building was completed in 1902. In the central hall, under the cupola between the two assembly rooms, there are numerous symbolic depictions of Swiss history.

Curiosity. During the summer, you can see the 26 water fountains in Parliament Square represent the 26 cantons of Switzerland.
Stop 5

10 min Admission included

One of the Bernese fountains depicts an ogre devouring defenceless, half-naked children.Its Kindlifresserbrunnen. There are various theories about the significance of this fountain, the most plausible of which is that the fountain was built for an educational purpose and that the monster was meant to scare little children. The most popular theories are three. And the most truthful one is even more horrific than the scarecrow for children.
Kafigturm (Prison Tower)

15 min Admission included

Käfigturm as well as the clock tower were built at different times as Bern's fortification system. In the past Käfigturm was where criminals were interrogated and locked up!

Bernese, as befits the Swiss, lovers of order, have documented and preserved in the so-called "Tower Books" information about murders, thefts and other crimes, as well as interrogations, confessions and sentences.

Have you ever been to the Musée Dorcet in Paris? Perhaps the painting "The Tin Man" by the Swiss artist Hodler caught your eye. They say he was born in this tower.
Kornhausbrucke

10 min Admission included

Now is a very special restaurant, it is better to book a table in it in advance, where the Napoleons invaders died drowning in wine.
Aare River

30 min Admission included

You will learn why did the inhabitants of the Matte district – the oldest part of the city develop their own languageabout special Matten-Berndeutsch (a mixture of French, Hebrew, German and other languages) part of the city.
Rosengarten

30 min Admission included

Just next to the Rose Garden - Bears lives.

Here we will learn the story why this animal is the symbol of the city.