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The movers and shakers of Montreux

This content was published on Mar 5, 2014 “Hemingway was a traveller. He liked trains. His friends said he knew all the train timetables of the world by heart,” explains Evelyne Lüthi-Graf, Montreux’s archivist. She was responsible for creating the walk. Hemingway is only one of the many celebrities or artists who eventually found fame and left their mark on Montreux. Lüthi-Graf named…

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A sea of tranquillity and philosophy

This content was published on Mar 5, 2014 Sils Maria lies sprawled atop the Maloja Pass in Graubünden’s Engadine region. Here, a large stretch of lake, a sprinkling of villages and the sheer rock face of bare mountains towering over the expanse make for a very unique landscape. In a letter Nietzsche once referred to it as being “heroic and idyllic”. This is…

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Mountains that block the sun

This content was published on Mar 5, 2014 American writer Patricia Highsmith spent her last 14 years in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, but set just one of her stories in the region.

Sherlock Holmes success no mystery

This content was published on Mar 5, 2014 Conan Doyle had been writing about two Holmes stories a year when he and his wife set off on a tour of Switzerland in 1893. Frustrated with the character that had taken over his life, he came up with a plan to do away with him. “In 1893 he wrote in his diary, which still exists,…

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Writer focused on painting during his Swiss years

This content was published on Mar 5, 2014 Hesse moved to Montagnola in 1919, at the age of 42, and found it to be ideal to quell the turbulence he was experiencing in his life. The sleepy yet friendly village atmosphere, the way the direct sunlight bathed the flank of the Collina d’Oro, and the natural beauty of the woods nearby, worked wonders…

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Film legend found peace on Lake Geneva

This content was published on Mar 5, 2014 The library at the Manoir de Ban, in Corsier-sur-Vevey, is still much as the great film-maker left it when he died in his sleep in the early hours of the morning on Christmas Day in 1977. The bookshelves are lined with leather-bound collections of Punch and Strand magazines dating back to the late 19th century.…

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The struggle to save images in the digital age

This content was published on Mar 5, 2014 A box of glass plates sits next to the scanner: “These are photos taken by my grandfather, a minister in Grindelwald, nearly 100 years ago,” says Christoph Balsiger, a photo editor at swissinfo.ch. “There are portraits, flowers, the countryside, mountains… in this one, I recognise the Eiger mountain, but the rest… no idea: there is…

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Study finds more adults have ADHD

This content was published on Mar 5, 2014 Researchers at the University of Zurich’s Institute for Social and Preventive Medicine surveyed 5,656 military recruits from all over the country. They found that many of those with ADHD had additional problems, such as depression, poor social skills and alcohol abuse. This is on top of the reduced attention spans, impulsive behaviour and hyperactivity that…

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Ice hockey coach quits ‘dream job’

This content was published on Mar 4, 2014 “Sean decided not to sign a new contract with us,” Swiss Ice Hockey Federation President Marc Furrer said at a press conference in Zurich on Monday. “We would have liked to re-sign with him and I think we offered a very good contract. We’ve had four good years with Sean.” For his part, Simpson said…

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Winter, winter disappear…

This content was published on Mar 2, 2014 The children pictured here are making a racket in the village of Ardez in the Engadin Valley (Chalanda means “first day“ in old Romansh). Chalandamarz dates back to when southeastern Switzerland was part of the Roman Empire, and therefore the tradition is probably older than Christianity.

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