Allschwil
Allschwil is a village and a municipality in the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.
Allschwil is a village and a municipality in the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland.
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Worth seeing in and around Allschwil
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01University of Basel
The University of Basel is a public research university in Basel, Switzerland. Founded on 4 April 1460, it is Switzerland's oldest university and among the world's oldest universities.
3.9 km · public university in Basel, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 02Basel Zoo
Zoo Basel is a zoological garden in the city of Basel, Switzerland. Its official name is Zoologischer Garten Basel — or in English: Basel Zoological Garden.
3.4 km · zoo in Basel, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 03Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
The Schola Cantorum Basiliensis is a music academy and research institution located in Basel, Switzerland, that focuses on early music and historically informed performance. Faculty at the school have organized performing ensembles that have made notable recordings of early music.
4 km · Swiss college of early music, founded in 1933 · Wikipedia - 04St. Paul's Church
St. Paul's Church is a Reformed Church in Basel, Switzerland, part of the Evangelical-Reformed Church of the Canton Basel-Stadt.
3.4 km · church in Basle, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 05Gate of Spalen
The Basel city walls are a complex of walls surrounding the central part of the Swiss city of Basel, only partially preserved today. The first city wall was completed around 1080 under bishop Burkhard von Fenis.
3.7 km · tower · Wikipedia - 06Jewish Museum of Switzerland
The Jewish Museum of Switzerland in Basel provides an overview of the religious and everyday history of the Jews in Basel and Switzerland using objects of ritual, art and everyday culture from the Middle Ages to the present.
3.8 km · museum collection in the city of Basel, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 07Stadion Schützenmatte
Stadion Schützenmatte is a sports stadium with track and field facilities in the Bachletten quartier in Basel, Switzerland. It is the home ground of BSC Old Boys Basel and, together, the pitch and tennis courts make up the western part of the Schützenmatte sports complex.
2.9 km · football stadium · Wikipedia - 08Basel University Library (institution)
Basel University Library, officially the Public Library of the University of Basel, is the central library of the University of Basel. It also serves as the Cantonal Public Library for the city of Basel.
3.7 km · Library of the University of Basel, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 09Skulpturhalle Basel
The Skulpturhalle Basel is a museum in Basel, Switzerland, featuring cast replicas of antique sculpture. With around 2,000 casts, it is the largest collection of its kind in the country, due to its tripling in size between 1985 and 2010.
3.7 km · museum in Basel (Switzerland) · Wikipedia - 10Biozentrum University of Basel
Research at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel is dedicated to the central question of how molecules and cells create life − from atom to organism, and from the physics of life to the dynamics of multicellular systems. Accordingly, the scientists at the Biozentrum are active in a wide range of research fields.
3.8 km · division of the University of Basel · Wikipedia
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Getting to Allschwil
- Airports
- EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 6 km · Zürich (ZRH), 77 km · Strasbourg (SXB), 110 km
- Stations
- Basel St. Johann railway station, 3.7 km
- Zurich → Allschwil79 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · CHF9–12
- Geneva → Allschwil183 km · quickest by road, 3h 49m · CHF26–35
- Strasbourg → Allschwil116 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · €14–19
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Allschwil
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Allschwil. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inBut these are scenic cruises taking 8 days to tour the cities along the way; they're not point-to-point ferries.
- Get aroundYou can be carried across the Rhine by Fähri, one of Basel's four small ferry boats, which, hanging at a steel rope, are silently drawn by the current between the two banks of the river.
- Go nextThe following destinations are good day trips by train from Basel: Zürich, Bern, Interlaken (see below), Lucerne (see below), Schaffhausen — all in Switzerland, 1–2 hours from the main station (Bahnhof SBB).
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Next door to Allschwil
- Binningenmunicipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland3.1 km
- Schönenbuchmunicipality in Switzerland2.8 km