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Favourite spot of the week: Älpli-Bar

Katie Halter is the owner of this traditional folk music bar that has played host to acts such as Green Day and Mumford & Sons.

The Shah’s Swiss watchmaker

Zurich watchmaker Rudolf Stadler came to a bloody end on 16 October 1637. At the age of 32, the first Court watchmaker to the Shah of Persia in Isfahan was executed by sword.

Favourite spot of the week: Bar 63

Pascal Kählin, Jonas Schwarz and Michel Mono are the owners of Bar 63. They’ve turned this pub on ‘the most beautiful corner in Zurich’ into a Mecca for rum lovers.

Locations

Gleis

How do you go about planning a bar/stage combo when the building doesn’t even exist yet? Julia Vögeli and Lou Lipp took a leap, and created Gleis.

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