Bern-Mittelland (administrative district)
Bern-Mittelland District in the canton of Bern was created on 1 January 2010.
Bern-Mittelland District in the canton of Bern was created on 1 January 2010. It is part of the Bern-Mittelland administrative region, and is the only district in the region. It contains 74 municipalities with an area of 946.30 km2 (365.37 sq mi) and a population of 418,191.
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Worth seeing in and around Bern-Mittelland (administrative district)
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.
- 01Stadion Wankdorf
Wankdorf Stadium is a football stadium in Bern, Switzerland. The second largest all-seater football stadium in Switzerland, it is the home ground of BSC Young Boys.
2 km · association football stadium in Bern, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 02University of Bern
The University of Bern is a public research university in the Swiss capital of Bern. It was founded in 1834.
3.5 km · university in the Swiss capital of Bern · Wikipedia - 03Federal Palace of Switzerland
The Federal Palace is a building in Bern housing the Swiss Federal Assembly and the Federal Council. It is the seat of the government of Switzerland and parliament of the country.
3 km · federal building in Bern, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 04Swiss National Library
The Swiss National Library is the national library of Switzerland. Part of the Federal Office of Culture, it is charged with collecting, cataloging and conserving information in all fields, disciplines, and media connected with Switzerland, as well as ensuring the widest possible accessibility and dissemination of such data.
2.7 km · national library of Switzerland, based in Bern · Wikipedia - 05Old City of Bern
The Old City is the medieval city center of Bern, Switzerland. Built on a narrow hill bordered on three sides by the river Aare, its compact layout has remained essentially unchanged since its construction during the twelfth to the fifteenth century.
2.5 km · old town of Bern, Switzerland and UNESCO World Heritage Site · Wikipedia - 06Zytglogge
The Zytglogge is a landmark medieval tower in Bern, Switzerland. Built in the early 13th century, it has served the city as a guard tower, prison, clock tower, centre of urban life and civic memorial.
2.7 km · medieval clock tower with astronomical clock and carillon in the city of Bern, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 07Kunstmuseum Bern
The Museum of Fine Arts Bern, established in 1879 in Bern, is the museum of fine arts of the de facto capital of Switzerland.
3 km · museum in the city of Bern, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 08Bern Minster
Bern Minster is a Swiss Reformed cathedral in the old city of Bern, Switzerland. Built in the Gothic style, its construction started in 1421.
2.4 km · church building in the old city of Bern, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 09PostFinance Arena
The PostFinance Arena is an indoor arena in Bern, Switzerland. It is primarily used for ice hockey and is the home arena of SC Bern.
1.5 km · ice sport arena in Bern, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 10Zentrum Paul Klee
The Zentrum Paul Klee is a museum dedicated to the artist Paul Klee, located in Bern, Switzerland, and designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano. It features about 40 percent of Paul Klee's entire pictorial oeuvre.
700 m · museum collection in the city of Bern, Switzerland · Wikipedia
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Getting to Bern-Mittelland (administrative district)
- Airports
- EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 72 km · Zürich (ZRH), 98 km · Geneva (GVA), 132 km
- Stations
- Bern railway station, 3.4 km · Gümligen railway station, 2.4 km
- Bâle / Mulhouse → Bern-Mittelland (administrative district)95 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · €14–19
- Strasbourg → Bern-Mittelland (administrative district)189 km · quickest by road, 3h 37m · €25–35
- Colombier-Saugnieu, Rhône → Bern-Mittelland (administrative district)226 km · quickest by road, 4h 30m · €31–44
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Bern-Mittelland (administrative district)
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 Bern-Mittelland (administrative district). What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundAll hotel bookings in Bern include the “Bern-Ticket", which allows the free use of public transport within the city (zones 100 and 101) for the duration of the stay, including the Gurten funicular and transfer from and to the airport.
- Go nextYou can make day trips to beautiful locations like Spiez, Thun, Interlaken, Grindelwald and all the way up the Jungfrau to Jungfraujoch.
- Go nextOther pleasant day trips are to Biel, Fribourg, Gstaad, Murten, Neuchatel and Solothurn.
- Go nextGeneva, Basel and Zurich can easily be done as day trips but deserve a longer stay.
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