Binningen
Binningen is a municipality in the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland.
Binningen is a municipality in the district of Arlesheim in the canton of Canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland. It is nestled in a valley, on a plateau, and on two hills overlooking the city of Basel.
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Worth seeing in and around Binningen
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.
3.1 km · public university in Basel, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 02Kunstmuseum Basel
The Kunstmuseum Basel houses the oldest public art collection in the world and is generally considered to be the most important museum of art in Switzerland. It is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
3.1 km · art museum in Basel, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 03St. Jakobshalle
St. Jakobshalle is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the municipality of Münchenstein in Basel-Landschaft, right by the border with Basel-Stadt.
4 km · indoor arena in Basel, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 04Basel Minster
Basel Minster is a religious building in the Swiss city of Basel, originally a Roman Catholic cathedral and today a Reformed Protestant church. The original cathedral was built between 1019 and 1500 in Romanesque and Gothic styles.
3.2 km · church · Wikipedia - 05trams in Basel
The Basel tramway network is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Basel, Switzerland, and its agglomeration - it also reaches into adjacent suburbs in Germany and France. The only two other tramway networks to cross an international border are Geneva's and Strasbourg's tramways.
2.9 km · tram system · Wikipedia - 06Basel 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.
1.8 km · zoo in Basel, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 07Basel Town Hall
The Basel Town Hall is a 500-year-old building dominating the Marktplatz in Basel, Switzerland. The Town Hall houses the meetings of the Cantonal Parliament as well as the Cantonal Government of the canton of Basel-Stadt.
3.2 km · city hall · Wikipedia - 08Schola 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.
2.8 km · Swiss college of early music, founded in 1933 · Wikipedia - 09Basel Museum of Ancient Art and Ludwig Collection
The Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig is one of the many museums in the city of Basel, Switzerland and a heritage site of national significance. In 1961 the city of Basel decided to establish the museum to assemble the several antiquities in one place.
3.1 km · archaeological museum in Basel (Switzerland) · Wikipedia - 10Kunsthalle Basel
Kunsthalle Basel is a contemporary art gallery in Basel, Switzerland. As Switzerland's oldest and still most active institution for contemporary art established in the year of 1872, Kunsthalle Basel forms a vital part of Basel's cultural centre and is located next to the city's theatre and opposite the concert house Stadtcasino.
2.9 km · museum in Basel (Switzerland) · Wikipedia
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Getting to Binningen
- Airports
- EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 8 km · Zürich (ZRH), 74 km · Strasbourg (SXB), 112 km
- Stations
- Basel SBB railway station, 2.3 km · Basel SNCF railway station, 2.3 km · Basel Dreispitz railway station, 3.2 km
- Zurich → Binningen76 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · CHF9–12
- Geneva → Binningen184 km · quickest by road, 3h 44m · CHF26–35
- Strasbourg → Binningen117 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · €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 Binningen
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 Binningen. 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 Binningen
- Baselcity on the Rhine in Switzerland3.5 km
- Allschwilmunicipality in the canton of Basel-Land in Switzerland3 km
- Oberwilmunicipality in the canton of Basel-Country, Switzerland2.4 km
- Bottmingenmunicipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland1.1 km
- Therwilmunicipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland3.9 km