Switzerland

By Travelog Editorial Team · Updated August 8, 2026

Switzerland is live on Travelog with two cities: Bern, the capital, whose Old City was inscribed by UNESCO in 1983 for its exceptionally coherent medieval planning, and Lucerne, which carries no UNESCO listing of its own but is home to the Chapel Bridge, built in 1333 and Europe's oldest surviving wooden covered bridge, with a well-documented 1993 fire in its own history.

Bern and Lucerne carry two genuinely different kinds of recognition: Bern a formal 1983 UNESCO listing for its coherent medieval city planning, and Lucerne, despite carrying no UNESCO status itself, home to a landmark with genuine, checkable claims of its own, the oldest surviving wooden covered bridge in Europe. Both cities and their landmark pages are live now.