Streetwise Zurich Map – Laminated City Center Street Map of Zurich, Switzerland – Folding pocket size travel map with metro map (Map)
June 12, 2009 by Destination Guide
Filed under Travel Switzerland Guides
Review
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Product Description
Streetwise Zurich Map – Laminated City Center Street Map of Zurich, Switzerland – Folding pocket size travel map with integrated metro map featuring tram, bus, train, cable car lines & stations
This map covers the following areas:
Main Zurich Map 1:10,000
Zurich Area Map 1:77,000
Zurich City Metro Map
Zurich is a banker’s paradise. This is the financial capital of Switzerland, and in turn the world. Numbered accounts and absolute secrecy may be more difficult to find these days, but financial discretion is still the order of the day in this monetary mega city. Walking around the streets of Zurich, you find perfectly manicured townhouses with thick doors featuring cryptic names on bronze plaques. These are the money handlers of the twenty first century. Once it was imperative to physically sit on hoards of gold, but now you don’t need much more than a computer and a network to control a fortune. That doesn’t mean that the hoards of gold aren’t still tucked away, it just means that there are more companies behind thick doors moving it around figuratively.
Zurich therefore is a bit deceptive. It’s so clean and manageable; you wouldn’t think that so much business takes place here. The Old Town, made up of tiny cobblestone pedestrian streets, straddles the Limmat River. Houses line the streets with retail or restaurants on the ground floor and apartments above, giving the area life even after the shops close. Each of these neighborhoods are clustered around one of the major churches in the city: Grossemunster, with it’s iconic twin spires; Fraumunster, with the Marc Chagall stained glass windows; and St Peters, the oldest church in Zurich displaying the largest clock face in Europe.
The city sits at the base of Lake Zurich (Zürichsee) and directions are based on the right side or left side of the river, based on having your back to the lake. On the left side along the river are the streets of Schipfe and Storchen, both filled with trendy upscale shops and cafes. Bahnhofstrasse is the main shopping street in town and it stretches from the lake up to the train station. On the right side of the river is Neiderdorf Strasse, a younger hipper street filled with funky boutiques, inexpensive restaurants and clubs. Less expensive hotels are found hidden in the small alleys that lead away from the river, but you might want to stay in another section of town if you have a concern about late night noise.
One of the nicest things to do in Zurich is to take an evening stroll along the lake. The promenade that runs from Bellevue Plaza along Uto Quai and then continues on Seefeld Quai is lovely in warm weather. Pass the Johann Jacobs Museum, Le Corbusier’s Hans Weber Haus, the Museum Bellerive, and wander through the China Garden maybe stopping for a cool drink or an ice cream.
Our STREETWISE® Zurich Map will guide you in your visit to this beautiful Swiss city. All metro stops and sites are clearly highlighted on the main map, some with architectural renderings making it easier to spot them as landmarks. Streets, hotels, parks and squares, and points of interest are listed in the index. A separate Zurich area map will facilitate your travel in and out of the city and to the airport. A complete Zurich Metro Map is also included.
Our pocket size map of Zurich is also laminated for durability and accordion folding for effortless use. The STREETWISE® Zurich map is one of many detailed and easy-to-read city street maps designed and published by STREETWISE®. Buy your STREETWISE® Zurich map today and you too can navigate Zurich, Switzerland like a native. For a larger selection of our detailed travel maps simply type STREETWISE MAPS into the Amazon search bar.
I happen to like city maps, and tend to feel a bit lost if I don’t have a city map riding in my backpack. However, having recently returned from Switzerland, I found that all 6 of the Swiss cities I traveled to, had free city maps “stadtplans” both at the hotels I was staying at and more importantly at the tourist information offices. Fortunately most of these tourist information offices are located inside the main train stations, so if you are planning on traveling Switzerland by rail and arriving in towns during normal business hours, you’ll be able to get free stadtplans. I ended up folding my free paper maps in my back pocket and wandering around (in fact, in Zurich and Lausanne I ended up wandering off the maps).
That said, the Streetwise map was still instrumental in my pre-trip planning phase. I used the map to locate the potential hotels I was booking for myself on-line. The map did allow me to get a good feel for how close to the train station and main tourist sites the various hotels were, and most importantly, if I couldn’t find an address on the map, I chose to not book that hotel. While I could have also used an on-line service to view the maps, I’ve found that sometimes US based maps make mistakes in smaller European cities.
Zurich is a small enough city, that you honestly will not need a city map. Furthermore, I was also able to get excellent directions from locals in a mixture of English / German. But I’m still happy I have the map, as I now pull out the map laminated map and use it to point out where my Zurich adventures took me to my family and friends. It makes a nice addition to my Lonely Planet Frankfurt and Paris maps. It is small, sturdy, and water proof. For my next vacation, I’ll look for more Streetwise city maps.
The Streetwise Zurich map folds accordian style, which makes it much easier to pull out and look at with one hand. It’s waterproof and creaseproof too. This is my third Streetwise map and I don’t think it will be the last one I buy.
Terrific pocket map. Ordered same for all of the major cities we visited in Europe.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Zurich street map
Map is very useful for the immediate downtown section of the city. It doesn’t show the business areas to the north of the downtown, We found it usewful.