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    Carnet d’Adresse. Zurich

    KRONENHALLE

    Feasting while appreciating artworks, like a Picasso or a Miró? You don’t need to rent a room in a museum. You have to book a table at Kronenhalle, today refined place of gourmet luxuries which combines pleasures for eyes and taste, once a meeting point for artists and intellectuals, usually broke people who ate, drank and exchanged with a drawing or a painting.

    In the rooms once attended by James Joyce and Friedrich Dürrenmatt, people can taste the famous Zürcher Geschnetzeltes, sliced meat Zurich style, surrounded by artworks of Hodler, Segantini, Giacometti, Chagall. A portrait of Hulda Zumsteg, famous maîtresse de maison, made by Varlin stands out in the Brasserie. Here, apple pie is still a bestseller of the restaurant.

    ALBERTO GIACOMETTI FOUNDATION, KUNSTHAUS

    He created diaphanous and spectral figures close to the last fatal crumbling away: tragic and perfect symbols of the human condition hanging between Being and Not Being. He is Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), Swiss artist from Val Bregaglia, sculptor of the XX century: the Kunsthaus (treasure chest with a priceless art heritage, from Middle Ages to nowadays) shows as a pantheon artist’s best masterpieces.

    MUSEUM RIETBERG

    One of the most important collection in the world of extra-European art (Oceania, pre-columbian America, Middle and Far East), in the charming Villa Wesendonck, where also Richard Wagner stayed, that shows the treasures once belonged to baron von der Heydt: heads, busts, ceremonial masks, anthropomorphic idols, till the charming, frightening fetishes from the Sub-Saharan Africa.

    The addition of the so called “Emerald” area gave the museum a new, amazing exhibition place where, in a strong emotional set-up, the masterpieces of the tribal culture come out with their mysterious magic and masterful modernity.

    CAFE SCHOBER

    A gem with shabby romantic atmospheres, new Baroque touches: rooms on two storeys, velvet sofas, little corners where people whisper their secrets, glass showcases full of cakes and sweets.

    Welcome to Cafe Schober, historic patisserie close to the cathedral where people can enjoy a homemade chocolate or a mono Saint Honorè to taste with a cup of tea or a Kafi Haus, the coffee of the Schober, or a cappuccino with milk and cream. For winter, en plein air small tables with plaid blankets.

    CHAGALL WINDOWS, FRAUMÜNSTER

    The poet Guillaume Apollinaire described Marc Chagall’s paintings (1887-1985) as “supernatural” which, with dream freedom, magical colours and moving wonder, tell of his Russia, the Jewish universe, the splendour of youth, the love and mystery of the Bible: “the greatest source of poetry of all time”.

    In 1970 for the church of Fraumünster Chagall created a rose window and five windows that show the biblical story in a space of magic and floating hanging. A space with no rules, time or dimension, where impossible turns into possible. Like in dreams, fairytales and parables.

    CONFISERIE SPRÜNGLI

    Chocolate truffles, pralines, cakes, cookies and salty biscuits, but most of all Luxemburgerli, that light delicacies that for over half a century are symbols of the Confiserie Sprüngli and Zurich itself. Macarons filled with light cream in 30 different flavours: chocolate and Bourbon vanilla, lemon and pistachio, sour cherry and even champagne.

    The Bahnhofstrasse boutique, a real reference point, offers the greediest shopping and a sweet and relaxed break in the tea room at the first floor.

    THERMALBAD & SPA ZÜRICH

    What about a relaxing break? Maybe at Thermalbad & Spa Zürich (open from 9 to 22), charming and unexpected pools of thermal waters coming from the Aqui springs (35° – 41°C) created from the centuries-old vaults of an abandoned brewery.

    Very emotional is the open air pool on the roof, a breathless view that, during sunset, can count on amazing shimmers.

    CLOUDS

    The place to be of the Swiss city, the most à la page restaurant and bistro of the moment, where people go to be seen and, most of all, to see. This is Clouds, on the top floor of Prime Tower, 120 metres high, view of the city, of the lake and, on the background, of the Alps.

    The Tower raises in the heart of Zürich-West, the post-modern district born twenty years ago from the reconversion of the Industrial era buildings today turned into art galleries, theatres, lounge bars, music clubs and trendy shopping streets. Here there is the headquarters of Freiteg, the bag made of 100%- recycled PET plastic, real cult item for true fashion victims, so to deserve its space also among the collections of MoMa of New York City.

    THE DOLDER GRAND

    An enchanted castle so beautiful it seems unreal. This is the Dolder Grand, gem of Zurich hôtellerie with an amazing view, that in 2008 sir Norman Foster turned from a fin de siècle private hospital into a top luxury hotel with design interiors, glass walls that overlooks the lake.

    Flagship is the amazing spa with 4,000 square metres (strong point is the anti-aging medicine ward) and the gourmet restaurant with 2 Michelin stars and 18 Gault Millau points thanks to the German Heiko Nieder. The touch of class? The 100 modern artworks (Pissarro, Dalí, Moore) from Urs E. Schwarzenbach collection, Dolder’s majority shareholder. Big Retrospective Painting, the 11 metres Andy Warhol’s painting, is displayed above the reception.

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