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Bern, German is Bern, which means "place where bears are infested".

Bern has a mild and humid climate, with warm winters and cool summers. Founded in 1191, it became the seat of the Swiss Federal Government in 1848 and remains the political and cultural center of Switzerland to this day, as well as the seat of the federal government of Switzerland (the Swiss constitution states that Switzerland does not have a capital).

The Aare River divides the city into two halves, with the Old Town on the west bank and the New Town on the east bank, and is connected by seven wide bridges across the Aare River. The Old Town (Old Town of Bern) is today a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The name Bern is derived from the German word for bear, which is pronounced "Byr" and later changed to "Bern".

Legend has it that at the end of the 12th century, the Duke of Zahringen, who ruled east-central Switzerland, wanted to build a fortress in Bern, and in order to name the city, the Duke of Zalingen decided to go out hunting, and named the city after the first wild beast he caught, and killed a bear, so he named the city after the word "bear". Because of this historical origin, the Bernese people still have a special preference for bears, and the image of bears can be seen everywhere.

Whether it's in the fountain in the center of the street, or on those old buildings, there are almost all sculptures of bears. The Zalingen Fountain was built in honour of the Duke of Zaringen, the founder of Bern. But his image is not visible on the fountain. Only one of the ubiquitous Bernese bears wears the Duke's costume.

The beautifully built staircase outside the town hall was built in the 15th century.

In front of it is the Flag Bearer Spring, on which is a bear that wants to be in the limelight. On chocolate candies, on large cakes, and even on men's belts, women's hairpins, children's buttons, and many other everyday goods, there are bears in various postures.

On festivals, hotels, shops, offices, and houses are hung with large pairs of colorful flags decorated with various artistic bear logos, which has become a major sight in Bern.

Even in normal times, bear flag bunting can be seen everywhere. For this reason, Bern is also known as the "Bear City". On the east bank of the bend of the Aare River is the "Bear Garden", which has a history of more than 500 years.

The Bernese people have a deep affection for bears, and will often come to the bear farm to visit the bears, and at Easter the most people, if there are cubs, they will run happily to tell each other, and if a bear dies, it will be sad for many days. On the coat of arms of the Swiss Confederation of Bern, a bear is also depicted.

The city of Bern was founded in 1191 by Berthold V of Zöhringen, and it is generally believed that the city got its name from a bear that was repulsed. In 1353, Bern became the eighth canton of federal Switzerland, and was completely rebuilt after a fire in 1405.

The new Federal Constitution of 1848 designated Bern as the capital of Switzerland, or more precisely as the City of the Confederation.

Berne is the capital of Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Bern, located in the west-central part of Switzerland. The Aare River divides the city into two halves, with the Old Town on the west bank and the New Town on the east bank, and is connected by seven wide bridges across the Aare River. Bern has a mild and humid climate, with warm winters and cool summers.

Bern is an 800-year-old city.

The city was founded as a military post in 1191. It became a free city in 1218. It gained independence from Germany in 1339 and joined the Swiss Confederation as an independent canton in 1353. In 1848 it became the capital of the Swiss Confederation.

Bern means "bear" in German, so "bear" became a popular decorative motif in Bern and also became the city's crest.

There are two theories about this, one is that in the 11th century, it was a desolate place where bears frequented. Therefore, when a military fortress was built here in 1191, it was named after the "bear".

Another theory is that after the new city was built, Count Bethch von decided to name it after the first beast he hunted, and the first beast to be hunted was a bear, hence the name of Bern. There is a famous bear farm in the city, which has been keeping bears since 1513 and has become a famous symbol of Bern.

The city of Bern attaches great importance to the development of national traditions and styles in the construction of the city, and the old town still retains its medieval architecture intact and has been included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. In the city, fountains of various forms, walkways with arcades, and towering towers are fascinating.

The square in front of the town hall is the best-preserved medieval square. Among the many monuments in Bern, the bell tower and the cathedral are unique. The bell tower, built in the 12th century, is wooden both inside and on the side facing the city. It was destroyed by a fire in 1405 and rebuilt with stone.

In 1530, a group of skilled local craftsmen made an elaborate astronomical calendar clock, which not only showed the date, time and the position of the day, moon and planets, but also had a puppet show.

The Bernese Gothic Cathedral was built in 1421 and completed in 1893, taking 472 years. The 100-meter-high minaret towers majestically above the rooftop, and at night it is lit up to make the tower-like structure even more majestic. In addition, Bern has the Niederge Church, built in 1492, and the Renaissance palace-like federal government building, built between 1852 and 1857.

The municipality of Bern has very strict control over new urban construction projects and has enacted laws that prohibit the construction of new buildings in the old city and the construction of offices, services and housing in the new urban area.

There are also certain height restrictions on the building, and the architectural style and style are required to be in harmony with the original building. The famous University of Bern was founded in 1834. The National Library, the Municipal Library and the University of Bern Library have a large collection of rare manuscripts and rare books.

There are also museums in the city for history, nature, art, and weapons. International organizations such as the Universal Postal Union, the International Telecommunication Union, the International Union of Railways and the International Copyright Union are also headquartered here.

Bern is where many revolutionaries moved and lived. In the autumn of 1848, Engels directed the Swiss workers' movement here. During his stay in Bern from 1914 to 1916, Lenin wrote numerous articles exposing the opportunism of the Second International and led the revolutionary struggle of the Russian Bolshevik Party at home.

In addition, the famous scientist and Nobel laureate Albert Einstein also lived here for seven years, during which time he wrote the monumental masterpiece "The Theory of Relativity".

In honor of this great scientist, the city of Bern has also dedicated a memorial to Albert Einstein.

Bern is also known as the "capital of watches".

In addition to watch production, there are also chocolate processing, machinery, instruments, textiles, chemicals and other industries.

When people think of Switzerland, people naturally think of watches, because the country is famous for its watch industry and enjoys the reputation of the "watch kingdom", and the capital Bern is also known as the "watch capital", watch shops abound, even in the suburbs and small mountain towns, you can find elegantly decorated watch shops everywhere.

Walking on the streets of Bern, it is like roaming in a sea of clocks, and the world of watches is full of eye-catching clock advertisements.

Walk into a watch shop and you'll be dazzled by the array of clocks displayed in the window: some are as small as a plexiglass clasp, some are as small as a pleiglass clasp, and some are as big as dried tofu.

Some are plastic watches specially produced for schoolchildren, with various vivid animal patterns painted on the surface, and are very cheap; there are double-sided watches for international travel, with the international standard time on one dial and the local time on the other; there are watches mounted on lighters, pens and computers; and some watches are inlaid with gold, precious stones and diamonds, which are a precious handicraft.

There are many springs in the streets of the city of Bern, which is why Bern is also known as the "City of Springs". In the middle of the street, there are 11 fountains in the city of Bern, which not only provide a visual object for people to learn about the history and culture of Switzerland and Bern, but also serve as drinking water when they are thirsty.

The city of Bern was founded at the end of the 12th century and was built in the 18th century on the scale we see and has a history of more than 800 years. Bern has been the political and cultural centre of Switzerland since it was established here in 1848 by the Swiss Federal Government.

Located in the central mountains of the western Swiss plateau, Bern sits on a natural bend in the Aare, a tributary of the Rhine, and the rapids of the river surround the old town of Bern on three sides, forming a peninsula.

The new town of Bern is on the right bank and the old town is on the left bank, connected by seven bridges. The inhabitants mainly speak German. Bern covers an area of more than 230 square kilometers (including suburbs), with an urban population of 124,000 and an altitude of 550 meters.

Bern built a military fortress in 1191. It became an independent city-state in 1218, gained independence from German rule in 1339, and joined the Swiss Confederation in 1353. Since 1848 it has been the seat of the Swiss Federal Government, also known as the "Federal City". The industry has electrical machinery, precision machinery, textile, chemical, pharmaceutical, food, printing and other departments.

It is famous for its management of clocks and watches, and is famous all over the world. Bern is home to more than 80 foreign embassies in Switzerland, as well as many international organizations such as the Universal Postal Union, the Directorate-General of International Railway Transport, and the International Copyright Union.

30% of the urban area of Bern is made up of woods and parks. The municipality of Bern has very strict control over new urban construction projects and has enacted laws that prohibit the construction of new buildings in the old city and the construction of offices, services and housing in the new urban area.

There are also certain height restrictions on the building, and the architectural style and style are required to be in harmony with the original building. The city of Bern attaches great importance to the development of national traditions and styles in the construction of the city, and the old town still retains its medieval architecture intact and has been included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

In the city of Bern, there are fountains of various shapes, walkways with arcades and towering towers. The square in front of the Bern Town Hall is the best-preserved medieval square until January 2009. Among the many monuments in Bern, the bell tower and the cathedral are unique.

The bell tower, built in the 12th century, is wooden both inside and on the side facing the city. It was destroyed by a fire in 1405 and rebuilt with stone.

Bern is a quiet and peaceful small city. Bern means "bear" in German, and it turns out that the founder of Bern decided to go hunting outside the city on a whim, and named the city after the first wild beast he caught, and the first one he hunted in the neighboring forest was a bear, hence the name "bear town". The bell tower was built in the 12th century, and there are four antique paintings dyed smoky gray under the platform, depicting the nobles hunting black bears and building cities.

In the park of Winter in the Old Town, there are bears that symbolize Bern. The state flag is embroidered with a majestic black bear, which looks solemn and playful, and contrasts with the Swiss flag with a red background and a white cross floating next to it.

The old city is strangely quiet, and the riverside at the foot of the city is even quieter, and the inside and outside of the city are in the embrace of nature. Bern's Old Town is a World Heritage Site. The city of Bern was founded in the 12th century and was built in the 18th century on the scale we see for 800 years.

Switzerland did not have a fixed capital for a long time, and on November 28, 1848, Bern was made the capital of the Swiss Confederation, becoming the seat of the federal government and the political and diplomatic center of the country.

The Federal Government and the Federal Assembly are housed in the copper-green Federal Building on the north bank of the Aar River, a group of large granite-like palace-like complexes built in 1852~1857. The left and right wings of the building are the offices of the federal ministries, and under the central dome are the chambers of the two houses of the federal parliament.

The building was enlarged between 1894 and 1902 and renovated again in 1993 with the addition of electronic voting devices. Due to public opposition to noise and topography, Bern did not have a large airport, only a small airport with air routes to major cities in Western Europe.

Bern has motorways to all parts of the country and is one of the national railway hubs. After World War II, Bern was primarily an administrative and banking center, but also a cultural and tourist city.

The University of Bern, one of the oldest universities in the city, was founded in 1834 and is famous for its research on cosmic rays. In addition, there are numerous museums of different genres such as history, natural history, art, weapons, etc., and Bern is also home to the Universal Postal Union and the Directorate-General of International Railway Transport.

Historically, many revolutionary activists have lived in Bern. Engels went to Bern in the autumn of 1848 to direct the Swiss workers' movement. Lenin also spent time in Zhimewald and Kuntal near Bern from September 1914 to early 1916 and wrote a number of articles exposing the opportunist traitors of the Second International.

The city of Bern is located in the west-central part of Switzerland and was established by the Federal Constitution in 1848 as the capital of Switzerland, also known as the "Federal City", and is also the capital of the canton of Bern. With an area of more than 230 square kilometres (including suburbs), an urban population of 124,000 and an altitude of 550 metres, it is located in a natural bend of the Aer, a tributary of the Rhine, and the rushing water surrounds the old town of Bern on three sides, forming a peninsula.

Legend has it that in order to name the city, the ruler at the time, Duke Zalingen, decided to go hunting. Naturally, the "bear" became the emblem of the city of Bern, and then the emblem of the state of Bern.

Some of the old buildings in the city of Bern still have bears on them. On the east bank of the Aer River, there is also a bear farm near the Gang Nideg Bridge, where some bears are fed for visitors to see.

The old town of Bern was originally built with wooden structures. Several fires in the Middle Ages destroyed all the wooden buildings. It was later rebuilt and converted into a stone structure, which remains intact today.

The glittering cobblestone streets, the arcades that line the streets, the old houses with red tiles and white walls, the fountain with their own allusions, the 16th-century clock tower and the Gothic cathedral built in 1421 give the old town of Bern a quaint and medieval mystery.

As a result, the Old Town of Bern has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In 1983, it was inscribed on the World Heritage List in accordance with criterion C (III) for the selection of cultural heritage. According to the World Heritage Committee, the ancient city of Bern, built in the 12th century on a hill surrounded by the Aare River, became the capital of Switzerland in 1848.

The architecture of the old city of Bern shows the changes in history. The ancient city retains its elegant arched promenades and fountains from the 16th century. The main building of this medieval town was rebuilt in the 18th century and retains its original historical appearance.

Stroll through the old town of Bern and see monuments everywhere. In particular, the road from the railway station to the Bear Garden, which is several kilometers long, attracts the most historical sites and is the most spectacular. Cross the bridge at the bend of the Aare River along the Righteous Strasse and you will reach the oldest part of Bern.

In the 14th-century Nadeg church, a statue of the Duke of Zahringen, the founder of Bern, was erected. The bronze reliefs on the gates, depicting the story of Jesus, have been preserved to this day.

BERN CATHEDRAL, LOCATED ON THE BANKS OF THE RIVER AARE, IS CALLED MUNSTER ZU ST. VINZENZ IS A TYPICAL GOTHIC BUILDING WITH A MAGNIFICENT SHAPE. Construction began in 1421 and took more than a century to complete, and the main hall was built over a period of 150 years.

At the end of the 19th century, a minaret was built on top of the church, which was 100 meters high, making it the tallest church in Switzerland. In 1611, a 10-ton bell was cast in the church, which is quite traditional and has a loud sound. It is still the largest bell in Switzerland.

THE GREATEST WORK OF ART IN THIS CHURCH IS THE LAST JUDGMENT IN RELIEF, CREATED BY THE MASTER ERHART KUENG AT THE END OF THE 15TH CENTURY. The 15th-century stained glass and other statues in the church are also of high artistic value. At regular concerts and Christmas, you can hear the music of the 18th-century organ.

A spiral staircase of 254 steps ascends to the second floor of the tower for a bird's-eye view of Bern. On Christmas Eve, there is a Christmas market in the church square, and on the first Saturday of every month, there is a handicraft market. To the southwest of the cathedral is the patina-roofed Federal Palace, a large granite palatial complex built between 1852 and 1857.

The Federal Government and the Federal Parliament are located in the building. The Federal Palace is home to many valuable court frescoes, sculptures reflecting the history of the Federation, and rare treasures.

Except during holidays and parliamentary sessions, there are free guided tours every day. The open space in front of the Federal Palace is called Federation Square.

It is a parking lot, a wet market, and a place for public rallies or protests. Every Tuesday and Saturday, hawkers set up stalls in the square early in the morning, vegetables, fruits, flowers, snacks, bustling with people, a scene of life and peace.

There are also many places of great historical and cultural value in the old town. For example, the underground passage of the Bern railway station displays the remains of the 600-year-old Bern fortifications, which can be viewed by pedestrians at any time of the way.

Diagonally opposite the train station, there is a Christian church, built in 1720. It is said to be the most important Baroque religious building in all of Switzerland.

The Bern Historical Museum is a 16th-century Gothic building with tall bronze sculptures and a classical fountain in front of its door. And the museum itself is a work of art.

There is also the "Museum of Fine Arts in Bern", which houses a large number of works by the famous painter Paul Klee, the "Swiss Alpine Museum", which exhibits skiing knowledge, the "Swiss Museum of Posts and Telecommunications", which is known as a paradise for philatelic enthusiasts, and the "Natural History Museum of Bern", which is ranked among the best in Europe. Armoury of Bern" and so on.

Bern is famous for its arcades.

Among them, the section from Hospital Street in front of the train station to the old clock tower on Klem Street is the most exciting.

The arcade has a unique structure and is typical of medieval architecture. In front of the ground floor of the buildings along the street is a sidewalk, and the top of the sidewalk extends outwards to form a corridor. The side of the corridor facing the street is supported by arches, and between the two columns it is like a wide arch, and the corridors are connected, and the arches are connected, winding and long, forming an arcade.

This architectural style was characteristic of the culture of the Middle Ages. In the Old Town, such arcades are seven or eight kilometers long. Today's arcades are home to large shopping malls, fashion stores, jewelry stores, antique shops, watch shops, craft shops, confectionery shops, chocolate shops, coffee shops and restaurants.

Streets such as Market Street and Hospital Street are filled with the latest luxury fashion and modern accessories, Milan's avant-garde fashion is on Noble Street and Cathedral Street, and the Grocery Street, Post Office Street and Justice Street are full of goods and attentive service.

Head east along the arcade to Market Street and you'll see a prison tower built 300 years ago.

The prison tower was once a lookout and is now home to the Bern Tourist Information Centre. Barron Square in front of the prison tower has open-air dining and chess lounges.

The large chessboard is drawn on the ground, and the chess players carry extra-large chess pieces, walking back and forth to play against each other, becoming a scene on the streets of Bern. Continue east to Cram Street, where you'll find the world-famous Old Clock Tower.

When the bell is struck on time, under the huge bell dial, there will be a little robot covered in gold to open the door and come out, hit the bell on the head with a hammer to report the time, at the same time, there is a "time old man" waving the pipa in his hand, a rooster crows and beats its wings, and a pair of bears pass by like a marquee, and the whole performance is extremely wonderful and interesting.

The mechanism of this clock was made in Switzerland in the 16th century and is still in good condition and in perfect working order. The old bell tower is not only a symbol of scientific and technological development, but also a symbol of the Swiss watch industry and a symbol of Helvetia's culture and art.

In the past few hundred years, it is impossible to calculate how many people it has admired and how many people it has taken pictures with. Walk through the old town to the rose garden on the high slope to the east of Bear Garden. The garden is planted with a variety of precious roses, and the varieties are exceptionally complete.

The rose garden is the pride of Bern. The view of Bern from the rose garden offers a panoramic view of the Old Town. The Gothic buildings are scattered, the streets of houses are lined up and down, and the buildings are covered with greenery, and the whole city is like a three-dimensional garden.

Grab a seat at the open-air table in front of the café in the garden, ask for a Swiss ice cream or a small cup of espresso and take a taste of Bern's Old Town. On both sides of the Noble Street are some of the most luxurious mansions in the city of Bern.

One of the mansions is said to be infested with movers, who often move furniture at night.

The federal capital, Bern, is the centre of Switzerland's telecommunications, computer technology, healthcare and service industries.

Bern has all the advantages of a standard Swiss city, such as economic, political and economic stability. The mechanical, instrumental, electrical, pharmaceutical, textile, food, construction and printing industries in Bern are growing year by year, but they are all small and medium-sized enterprises that do not play an important role in the Swiss economy.

Bern is primarily an administrative and banking centre, but it is also a cultural and tourist city. The University of Bern, one of the oldest universities in the city of Bern, was founded in 1834 and is famous for its research on cosmic rays.

Bern's economy is characterized by a large number of small and medium-sized businesses. Ovomaltine and Toblerone chocolates are not only produced in Bern.

Bern also has advantages in electronic communication and computer technology, as well as medicine, including the pharmaceutical industry, and fine industries (such as watchmaking, tool machinery, microelectronics, etc.). The service sector, environmental technology and energy, as well as design and luxury goods are also the economic priorities of Bern.

This city, which is decorated with history and high technology, has opened Ye Chao's eyes.

"Bear-infested city, I like it, hahaha......" Ye Chao looked at the city, as well as the streets and alleys of the city, full of thriving atmosphere. The most important thing in this kind of place is food, wine and beauty.

Man, isn't that all there is to love?