Municipality in Bern, Switzerland
Köniz
Köniz is a town and a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district right on the southern border to Bern in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
The municipality of Köniz as a single settlement would belong to the 15 most populous towns in Switzerland. It is also part of the larger agglomeration of Bern of about 400,000 inhabitants.
How locals move
Getting around Köniz the local way
- 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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