Federal Palace of SwitzerlandFederal Palace of Switzerland · photo: Flooffy, CC BY 2.0

Self-guided walking tour of Bern

66 sights · Switzerland · capital

Tell us what you like and how much time you have, and you get a walking route past the best sights of Bern, with a map and thumbs-up from other visitors. Free, no account needed.

Plan your walk through Bern

The route planner itself is in Dutch for now; the map and the route work the same.

What is there to see?

3-hour walk past the highlights of Bern

10 stops · 3.2 km · a loop from the centre with time to look around at each stop. Want to go inside somewhere? Set a longer stay in the route planner.

  1. Photo: Andrew Bossi, CC BY-SA 2.5
    🚶 1 min walkKindlifresserbrunnen
  2. Photo: Photo: Andreas Praefcke, CC BY 3.0
    🚶 7 min walkKunstmuseum Bern
  3. Photo: Swiss Federal Assembly, Attribution
    🚶 8 min walkBundesplatz
  4. Photo: Flooffy, CC BY 2.0
    🚶 1 min walkFederal Palace of Switzerland
  5. Photo: Krol:k, CC BY-SA 3.0
    🚶 10 min walkHistorical Museum of Bern
  6. Photo: Krol:k, CC BY-SA 3.0
    🚶 2 min walkKunsthalle Bern
  7. Photo: Wladyslaw Sojka, CC BY-SA 3.0
    🚶 6 min walkBern Minster
  8. Photo: de:Benutzer:Amstuzmarco, Public domain
    🚶 2 min walkOld City of Bern
  9. Photo: Dsmntl, CC BY-SA 3.0
    🚶 1 min walkEinsteinhaus
  10. Photo: Mike Lehmann, Mike Switzerland 13:37, 2…, CC BY-SA 3.0
    🚶 3 min walkZytglogge
Walk this route (with map)

More well-known sights in Bern

  1. Zentrum Paul Klee
  2. Bern City Theatre
  3. ALPS
  4. Church of Saints Peter and Paul
  5. Fountain of Justice
  6. Käfigturm
  7. Protestant Church of the Holy Ghost
  8. Anna-Seiler-Brunnen
  9. Natural History Museum of Bern
  10. Nydeggbrücke
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