Cultural routes in Switzerland
Swiss Cultural Routes is a national project that develops hiking routes on historical traffic routes in Swiss cultural landscapes and makes them accessible to the public. It is operated by ViaStoria , the Swiss specialist organization for research into the history of traffic and the preservation and sustainable use of historical traffic routes.
Basics and goals
Swiss Cultural Routes is based on the traffic history fundamentals that ViaStoria has developed in research projects and for the inventory of historic traffic routes in Switzerland (IVS). Historically significant traffic routes open up Switzerland's cultural landscapes. They network regional and local tourism initiatives and offers of regional agricultural products. Together with regional tourism organizations, Kulturwege Schweiz offers packages on numerous routes that include overnight stays, museum admissions, travel documentation and, in some cases, tastings and luggage transport between the stage destinations.
With Kulturwege Schweiz, ViaStoria wants to secure the use and maintenance of historical traffic routes, promote the sustainable development of the cultural landscape and contribute to sustainable tourism value creation in the regions. A didactic program sensitizes schoolchildren to the protection of the cultural landscape. The establishment of the Swiss Cultural Routes is financed by national and cantonal funding, foundations and sponsors from the private sector.
The route network
The route network of Kulturwege Schweiz consists of twelve main and 300 regional routes.
- The main routes form the national structure of the program; they tell an aspect of the cultural and transport history of Switzerland and can be hiked in several daily stages. Eight routes of Cultural Routes of Switzerland are to Hiking in from SchweizMobil integrated, the national network for non-motorized traffic . The network of main routes is complete
- The regional routes open up the cultural landscapes of Switzerland in a finer grid. They consist of one to several day hikes dedicated to a certain cultural landscape, a historical event or a regional specialty. The ViaRegio network is to be expanded significantly over the next few years. The network of regional routes has been completed as a planning tool. Individual routes have been implemented, others will be developed over the next few years in cooperation with local partners.
The twelve main routes
ViaCook
Geneva - Chamonix (F) - Martigny - Leukerbad - Gemmipass - Bernese Oberland - Lucerne - Rigi - Olten - Neuchâtel - Pontarlier (F) (in the footsteps of the English tourism pioneer Thomas Cook in 1863 through Switzerland)
ViaFrancigena
Pontarlier (F) - Lausanne - Saint-Maurice - Martigny - Great St. Bernhard - Aosta (I). Wanderland Route 70 (Pilgrimage from Canterbury to Rome - a Great Cultural Route of the Council of Europe )
ViaGottardo
The Via Gottardo leads on the most important Alpine transit route from Basel / Schaffhausen - Lake Lucerne - Gotthard Pass - Lugano - Chiasso through its history and Switzerland.
ViaJacobi
Rorschach / Constance (D) - Einsiedeln - Willisau / Brienz - Friborg - Lausanne - Geneva . Wanderland Route 4 (historically documented Swiss section of the Way of St. James to Santiago de Compostela in Spain - a major cultural route of the Council of Europe )
ViaJura
Basel - Laufen - Delémont - Moutier - Court - Tavannes - Biel / Bienne . Wanderland Route 80 (2000 years of cultural history between the Mittelland and the Rhine )
ViaRhenana
Constance / Kreuzlingen - Reichenau - Stein am Rhein - Schaffhausen - Rhine Falls - Eglisau - Zurzach - Rheinfelden - Basel . Wanderland Route 60 (historic waterway in northern Switzerland)
ViaRomana
Geneva - Lausanne - Orbe - Avenches - Solothurn - Augst AG (Myth and reality of the Roman roads in the Swiss plateau and in the Jura )
ViaSalina
Arc-et-Senans (F) - Salins-les-Bains (F) - Sainte-Croix - Lake Neuchâtel - Bern (Route of the salt from the French Jura to Bern)
ViaSbrinz
Stansstad / Alpnachstad - Jochpass / Brünigpass - Grimselpass - Obergesteln - Griespass - Ponte (I). Wanderland Route 40 (traditional transport route for hard cheese from Central Switzerland ( Sbrinz ) to the south)
ViaSpluga
The Via Spluga leads over Thusis - Splügenpass - Chiavenna (I). As Wanderland Route 50, it traces the historical traces of the haulers and carters on one of the most historically important Alpine passes.
ViaStockalper
The Via Stockalper follows the historic Brig - Simplonpass - Gondo mule track . Wanderland Route 90 is a cultural and historical route in the former empire of Kaspar Stockalper , the "King of the Simplon".
ViaValtellina
Schruns (A) - Schlappiner Joch - Davos - Scalettapass - Pontresina - Berninapass - Tirano (I). Wanderland Route 30 (route of the wine merchants between the Montafon and the Valtellina ). See main article: Via Valtellina .
The regional routes (ViaRegio)
Via Suvorov
The Via Suvorov as a traveling overland route follows the tracks 55 of the Russian General Suvorov , who crossed on his Alpine campaign in autumn 1799 six Alpine passes.
Web links
References and comments
- ↑ IVS object: UR 1.2.4 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Via Gottardo and Häderlisbrücke (center) on Waymarked Trails ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. hiking map
