Tourist News
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Tourist news Objekttyp: Group Zeitschrift: The Swiss observer : the journal of the Federation of Swiss Societies in the UK Band (Jahr): - (1976) Heft 1720 PDF erstellt am: 30.09.2021 Nutzungsbedingungen Die ETH-Bibliothek ist Anbieterin der digitalisierten Zeitschriften. Sie besitzt keine Urheberrechte an den Inhalten der Zeitschriften. Die Rechte liegen in der Regel bei den Herausgebern. Die auf der Plattform e-periodica veröffentlichten Dokumente stehen für nicht-kommerzielle Zwecke in Lehre und Forschung sowie für die private Nutzung frei zur Verfügung. Einzelne Dateien oder Ausdrucke aus diesem Angebot können zusammen mit diesen Nutzungsbedingungen und den korrekten Herkunftsbezeichnungen weitergegeben werden. Das Veröffentlichen von Bildern in Print- und Online-Publikationen ist nur mit vorheriger Genehmigung der Rechteinhaber erlaubt. Die systematische Speicherung von Teilen des elektronischen Angebots auf anderen Servern bedarf ebenfalls des schriftlichen Einverständnisses der Rechteinhaber. Haftungsausschluss Alle Angaben erfolgen ohne Gewähr für Vollständigkeit oder Richtigkeit. Es wird keine Haftung übernommen für Schäden durch die Verwendung von Informationen aus diesem Online-Angebot oder durch das Fehlen von Informationen. Dies gilt auch für Inhalte Dritter, die über dieses Angebot zugänglich sind. Ein Dienst der ETH-Bibliothek ETH Zürich, Rämistrasse 101, 8092 Zürich, Schweiz, www.library.ethz.ch http://www.e-periodica.ch Lucerne International The Lucerne Festival Strings will Music '76 present two jubilee chamber concerts and, for the first time, play as an opera The general programme for the orchestra. The Zürich Collegium Musicum 1976 International Festival of Music has is to perform the Serenades at the Lion now been published and advance Monument. "Musica nova" will feature ôoofcmg-s can be accepted in writing for interpretations by the Lucerne Vocal all events from 18th August to 9th Soloists, a chamber ensemble, the September 1976. "Mobile" Wind Quintet and the Berne The festival this year will be String Quartet, of works by prize-winning specially dedicated to the theme of entries in the composition contest Iberia, with the centenaries of the birth organised by ten Swiss towns. The of Manuel de Falla and Pablo Casals contrasting programme "Musica antiqua" forming the basis for the structure of the brings the Ioculatores Upsalienses to 39 events. The twelve symphony concerts Lucerne from Sweden. Three matinées SWISS NATIONAL DAY IN BERNE will be given by the Swiss Festival (one for 80-year-old Wladimir Vogel), Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, two lieder Another attractive programme has evenings, two piano evenings, the Berlin Philharmonic been arranged in Berne for the annual 1st Munich, one quartet evening, an evening with Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic and August celebrations marking Swiss "Young Artists", an organ soirée and a the Cologne Radio Orchestra. the Independence Day. With 1st August this Symphony nocturne will complete programme. Choirs to be heard will include the Concert performances the dramatic year falling on a Sunday, crowds will of Lucerne Festival the choirs the de Falla begin to gather in the city centre during Choir, of cantata "Atlantida" by the afternoon. At 20.15 the traditional West German, North German and discovered after his death and the "War Bavarian the Toelz Choir the lantern procession by local children will Radio, Boys' Requiem" by Benjamin Britten form and the Children's Choir. contents the choral works. begin from the bearpits, continuing along Cologne of two major Gerechtigkeitsgasse and finishing at the Town Hall Square (Rathausplatz). Official ceremonies will begin at the SUNKEN TREASURE ON SHOW IN this and the foundation Münsterplatz (Cathedral Square) at expected summer BERNE has added some valuable exhibits to 20.00. There will then be wining and new its collection. include dining until the early hours of the More than 14,000 people last unique They an year well morning, and open-air dancing on visited the Berne-based Abegg exceptionally preserved Egyptian woollen the Bärenplatz and Waisenhausplatz in the Foundation's museum of early applied art tapestry from fifth or sixth heart of the city. at nearby Riggisberg. Even more are century, showing a girl playing a cithara; a pair of marble vases from the Cyclades, made about 3,000 years before Christ; a sixteenth-century Florentine sculpture in wood of a stalking lion; and a sixteenth- or seventeenth-century container made from rock crystal in either Germany or Italy. In addition to these new permanent the practical exhibits, the museum is this year staging a special exhibition devoted to textile preservation — for which the Abegg fastener for Foundation has earned an international reputation. Highlight of this exhibition are several items from a cargo ship which practically sank in 1600 off the Dalmation coast and salvaged only eight years ago by Yugoslav divers. The exhibits (specially treated and anything.. preserved by the Abegg Foundation at the request of the Yugoslav National Museum in Zadar) include a bale containing some 170 feet of silk damask, linen shirts and woollen headwear. The preservation methods used are also shown in the exhibition. The Abegg Foundation museum at Riggisberg will remain open until 17th October. INTERNATIONAL FOLKLORE MEETING IN LUCERNE The Jubilee Festival of the Swiss VeLCRO National Costume Association, which is its 50th this TOUCH & celebrating anniversary year, CLOSE FASTENER will be held from 10th to 13th Sole U.K. Manufacturer, September, 1976. This festival is to be Selectus Limited, Biddulph, Stoke-on-Trent. held in conjunction with an international Telephone: Stoke-on-Trent 513316(0782). folklore meeting taking place for the first time in Lucerne. 18 SWISS LAKE AND MOUNTAIN year we'll go for the European market." HOLIDAY The tours include accommodation The and jackpot A leading Swiss hotel has meals in Chic hotels throughout Switzerland. announced an attractive offer which Highlights include a should prove particularly popular to wine-tasting soon? lovers of lakes and mountains. competition, a candlelight dinner, a fish a session and The five-star Park Hotel, situated at festival, cheese-tasting an British airline Dan-Air flew a record invitation the mansion home a Vitznau on Lake Lucerne, is offering six to of 3,789 its London Swiss writer. passengers on days' accommodation and half-board plus prominent cooking (Gatwick)-Berne route during the first Participants will also be shown how unlimited free travel on local lake four months of this year — a 59 cent to prepare Swiss specialities per steamers and mountain railways — for an many increase the themselves — and will be presented with a over January-April period of all-in price of only Sw.Fr.582 1975. per person. diploma at the end of the tour. The region is famous for its many forms Dan-Air Marketing and Develop- of mountain transports, them ment Brian Brett said the airline among Manager Europe's first mountain railway (Vitznau NEW M/S "PETERSINSEL" ON was confident of achieving its of a target to Rigi Kulm), the steepest THREE-LAKES SERVICE record 15,000 passengers on the route rack-and-pinion railway in the world (the This the this year. summer new motor ship one-in-two climb up the Pilatus), and the Passenger total on the route last Petersmse/, the tenth unit of the Lake of ascent to the Bürgenstock peak by lift. Biel fleet, will be the year was 12,159, compared with 4,196 in operating on The offer is open from 15th September one-day three lakes tour. Starting at Biel, 1974. until the end of October. Dan-Air is the only carrier the trip first takes passengers past the operating a regular service between little wine-growing villages of Tüscherz, Twann and Ligerz. On the port side lies Britain and the Swiss capital. SWISSAIR GOES GOURMET WITH St. Peter's Island, where Jean-Jacques CHIC Rousseau lived for some time. Swissair and the Zürich-based Chic It is connected to the little Hotel Group are co-operating this medieval town of Erlach by means of a summer in the launching of a "Gourmet strip of land called the Heidenweg. The Tours of Switzerland" programme. ship then proceeds through the six-mile The programme includes a long Zihl Canal to enter the Lake of one-week tour costing from Sw.Fr.995 Neuchâtel and reaches the Lake of and two two-week tours costing from Murten through the Broye Canal, a nature Sw.Fr. 1,966 and Sw.Fr.2,020 per person. reserve area. A halt is made for lunch in Said Mrs. Marlene Mugglin, Chic Murten, which will be en fête all this sales promotion and public relations summer for the 500th anniversary of the manager: "Our gourmet programme is an Battle of Murten in which the Swiss beat ßr/ar? ßreff of Da/?-A/V who /s coo//o'er? r entirely new concept in Switzerland. Charles the Bold of Burgundy. The return o/ more records to come or? f/?e Zonc/or? "We plan to concentrate on the trip takes the same route, calling at Gafw/c/r-ßeme route. United States this summer — then next Neuchâtel. POUNDSAVERS! POUNDSAVERS! POUNDSAVERS! POUNDSAVERS! includes return day jet flight and very basic accommodation ZURICH £47.00 Departures ei/ery frt'c/ay w/'f/? ßr///s/7 Ca/edon/ar? from Gafw/cF 77m/77<75/ Deport Ga/w/c/? / 7.35 Arr/Ve Zur/c/7 73.05 Depo/T Zur/c/7 74.05 Arr/Ve Go/w/cT? 75.35 D/vraZ/o/75.' 7/2/3/4 wee/?s (smo//s£vpp/eme/rts for 3 or 4 weefs/ We will shortly be announcing details of our Chancery Travel also operates weekly already widely recognised comprehensive poooo'soizer departures to Corsica (every all-year round programme to Zurich for Monday £53), Athens (every Friday £59.50), Autumn 1976 and 1977.