Swiss artist François Junod has changed the automaton into a new art form. He calls his unique creations androids - mechanica...

Hornussen is a traditional team sport popular in the countryside of German-speaking Switzerland. swissinfo attended preparati...

150 tonnes of fish are caught annually by the eight full-time professional fishermen working on the lake of Biel. swissinfo s...

For filmmaker Roman Polanski, Switzerland has always been a place of refuge. At his holiday chalet in the alpine resort of Gs...

Countless actors have played William Tell over the past 200 years. Yet the man millions of people around the world knew as th...

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The Gurten, the highest point in the city of Bern, is a peaceful park that once a year rocks to the beat of the open-air fes...

There are few people in the world who know more about monkeys than Dr. Klaus Zuberbühler. The Swiss primatologist is employed...

Corinne and Natascha Kromer both work for Swiss International Airlines. Corinne has been a stewardess for more than 30 years,...

Most people swissinfo.ch spoke to in the streets of Bern on November 29 said they had voted in favour of a ban on the buildin...