Bern

Visit tibits Bern Bahnhof: Vegetarian buffet with a broad, clearly labelled vegan selection beside the station.

Visit Swing Kitchen Bern: Fully vegan burgers, wraps and desserts. A dependable central option with quick service.

Visit The Green Fairy: Plant-based café cooking in the arcaded old city, useful for lunch between historic sights.

Try croissants, cinnamon rolls, sandwiches and excellent takeaway picnic supplies at Bakery Bakery, a fully vegan bakery.

Visit Äss-Bar Bern: Rescued day-old bakery goods at reduced prices. Vegan availability varies, so check the labels.

Visit Kornhauskeller: A grand historic cellar restaurant serving Swiss and Mediterranean dishes.

Explore Alpine Museum of Switzerland: Exhibitions on Alpine landscapes, tourism, climate and mountain cultures.

Explore Bern and world history meet in a historicist building that also houses the Einstein at Bern Historical Museum.

Visit Einstein House: A compact apartment museum where Einstein lived while developing ideas that transformed modern physics.

Explore Kunstmuseum Bern: Swiss and European painting from the Middle Ages to the present.

Explore Museum of Communication: Interactive exhibitions trace post, telecommunications, media and the ways people connect.

Experience Aare riverside loop: Following the turquoise Aare beneath the old city explains Bern’s defensive geography and its intense summer swimming culture.

Visit Bern Cathedral: Switzerland’s tallest church tower rises from an extraordinary late-Gothic portal depicting the Last Judgment.

Experience Gurten funicular & ridge: Bern’s local mountain offers forest walks and a broad city-and-Alps panorama without requiring a full excursion.

Visit Old City of Bern: The compact medieval plan, sandstone arcades, fountains and later civic buildings form an exceptionally coherent capital above the Aare.

Experience Rosengarten viewpoint: The clearest panorama of Bern’s sandstone peninsula, best near sunset when the Alps appear behind the old city.

Explore Eichholz River Beach: A grassy and pebbly Aare river beach south of central Bern. Swimming is suitable only for confident river swimmers.