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F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, commonly known as Roche, is a Swiss multinational holding healthcare company that operates worldwide under two divisions: Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics. Its holding company, Roche Holding AG, has shares listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange. The company headquarters are located in Basel.
Roche is the fifth-largest pharmaceutical company in the world by revenue and the leading provider of cancer treatments globally. In 2023, the company’s seat in the Forbes Global 2000 was 76.
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Worth seeing in and around La Roche
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.
1.7 km · public university in Basel, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 02St. Jakob-Park
St. Jakob-Park is a Swiss sports stadium in Basel.
2.2 km · sports stadium in Basel · Wikipedia - 03Kunstmuseum 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.
1 km · art museum in Basel, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 04St. Jakobshalle
St. Jakobshalle is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the municipality of Münchenstein in Basel-Landschaft, right by the border with Basel-Stadt.
2.3 km · indoor arena in Basel, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 05Three Countries Bridge
The Three Countries Bridge is an arch bridge which crosses the Rhine between the commune of Huningue and Weil am Rhein, within the Basel metropolitan area. It is the world's longest single-span bridge dedicated exclusively to carrying pedestrians and cyclists.
3.9 km · bridge in France, Switzerland, and Germany · Wikipedia - 06Basel 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.
1 km · church · Wikipedia - 07trams 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.
1.3 km · tram system · Wikipedia - 08Basel 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.
2.4 km · zoo in Basel, Switzerland · Wikipedia - 09Basel 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.
1.3 km · city hall · Wikipedia - 10Schola 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.
1.5 km · Swiss college of early music, founded in 1933 · Wikipedia
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Getting to La Roche
- Airports
- EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL), 8 km · Zürich (ZRH), 72 km · Strasbourg (SXB), 109 km
- Stations
- Basel SBB railway station, 1.8 km · Basel Badischer Bahnhof railway station, 1 km · Basel SNCF railway station, 1.8 km · Basel St. Johann railway station, 2.8 km
- Zurich → La Roche130 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · CHF18–24
- Geneva → La Roche94 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · CHF13–17
- Strasbourg → La Roche215 km · quickest by road, 4h 12m · €29–40
- 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 La Roche
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 La Roche. 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 La Roche
- Baselcity on the Rhine in Switzerland1.2 km
- Birsfeldenmunicipality in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in Switzerland1.4 km