La Suisse: Le Jour Final

Vocabulaire

La Rivière: RiverLes banlieues: suburbsL’hôtel de ville: city hall

Bâle

Bâle

• Located where the Swiss, French, and German borders meet

• The city actually has suburbs in both France (Alsace) and Germany

• Located on la rivière Rhône

La Rivière Rhône

• Major industrial center for chemical and pharmaceutical industry

• Home to the oldest university of the Swiss Confederation

• Also home to the world’s oldest art collection accessible to the public, le Musée des Beaux Arts

La Gare

• Claims to be the world’s first international train station

• Was once the ancient Roman city August Raurica

La Tour de Munster

• Red sandstone architecture and colored roof tiles make it a unique and popular tourist site

• Originally a Catholic cathedral, today it is a reformed protestant church

• Badly damaged in 1356 during an earthquake

• Has undergone several renovations since then

L’hotel de ville

• Particularly German in style

• Located au centre-ville

• Dates back to the 1500s

Le “Messeturm”

• Tallest building in Switzerland

• “Trade Fair” Building• Offices and a hotel

(Ramada)

Au Revoir, la Suisse!