Basel: Places to Explore

If you stand in the middle of the Marktplatz, or even just watch river traffic from the Mittlere Rheinbrücke, it's easy to envision the Basel of centuries ago. On a bend of the Rhine, Basel's historic... Read more

Founded in 44-43 BC, Augst is the oldest Roman settlement on the Rhine, and today has been largely reconstructed as a noted museum of ancient Roman antiquities (one suspects the Swiss might have done the... Read more

Less spruced up than its "big brother" across the river, Kleinbasel is where you'll see people living rather than visiting. New immigrants from the Balkans mix with young people on a budget in the narrow... Read more

Just off the very busy crossing of Sankt Alban Graben and Durfourstrasse is quiet St. Alban, also known as Dalbe to locals. A neighborhood of old patrician townhouses and villas, it's still home to Basel's... Read more