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Features an attractive red-and-black illustrated cover depicting Bern\'s famous Zähringerbrunnen figure and bear standard. The brochure unfolds to reveal a particularly detailed bird\'s-eye pictorial plan of central Bern, showing individual buildings, streets, railway station, River Aare and major landmarks.
The city plan includes a multilingual key in German, French, Italian and English, identifying approximately 40 points of interest including the Federal Palace, Münster, Clock Tower/Zytglogge, Bear Pit, Museum of Art, Historical Museum, Swiss National Library, Botanical Gardens and other attractions.
A second map places Bern within Switzerland and Europe and provides contemporary travel times and distances from cities including London, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Rome, Madrid, Berlin and New York.
Printed in Switzerland by Polygraphische Gesellschaft Laupen (Bern). The address on the brochure is consistent with period records for the Verkehrsverein der Stadt Bern at Bundesgasse 20.
A very attractive piece of mid-century Swiss tourism ephemera, especially appealing for its large pictorial city map.
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