Anyone know where I can find current photos of Zurich Switzerland?

[MBony]

I am looking to go to Zurich in a couple of weeks and wanted to know what it looked like over there at the moment. Does anyone know any site(s) that have recent photos taken of Zurich and possibly Lucerne?

Thanks!

 

[Anubis]

google?

 

[SilentZero]

naw sorry..but I can attest to its beauty. I used to travel to geneva/lucerne and occassionally zurich once a month for about 2 years (back a few years ago). It's quite cold, and if you are going to be driving a lot make sure you have snow chains, but other than the cold weather it is a great place to be this time of year! I know in december when lake lucerne freezes they have lots of festivals on the lake. It's a good time.

 

[chcarnage]

I'm from Zurich Well at the moment it's cold and grey here

The photos from this gallery were all taken recently. They only show the city center though.

Forum user Mill was in Zurich last september for one night and shot some pictures, too.

If I don't forget it, I'm going to make some photos tomorrow.

 

[MBony]

Originally posted by: chcarnage
I'm from Zurich Well at the moment it's cold and grey here

The photos from this gallery were all taken recently. They only show the city center though.

Forum user Mill was in Zurich last september for one night and shot some pictures, too.

If I don't forget it, I'm going to make some photos tomorrow.

Hey, thanks for posting! I'll take a look at those photos after I post this. I also found this site that has live web cams, but please take some shots if you have the time. I would really appreciate it!

 

[chcarnage]

Today the once a year thing happened and I worked as a voluntary firefighter. I'm busy for the rest of the week so until next Monday I only can show you a handful of pictures from residential quarters and none from the center. Meh, think of them as everyday life pictures, nothing special or touristy at all.

01 The view from my window. If it wasn't foggy all morning you could see Mount Uetliberg, the best lookout point for the city (not that touristy but connected by train to the city)
02 03 The next bigger road, one block from where I live. This place is seven tram stops (12 min) or about 2 km away from the main station.
04 Public transportation busses and trams are painted blue/white here.
05 A recycling place and the park closest to where I live (I'm actually in the back seat of my firefighter friend shooting this images )
06 This car just left the most important firefighter base. The structure on the upper border of the picture is the end of an autobahn.
07 A not so beautiful section of Sihl river. The other river of the city, Limmat, looks much better.
08 This is as close as I got to the center today.
09 The entrance of one of the smaller and older train stations of Zurich (hey I told you these are snapshots )
10 Not that hard to figure out which corner of this building was in flames...
11 The tram tracks mostly end close to the city borders. The agglomeration has its own bus systems. We're 20 minutes from the center and about 10 from the border now.
12 If the web supported smell-o-vision, you would understand why my mates on the balcony wear respirators...
13 An elementary school with its sports field in another district of town.

I'll add some more next week.

 

[chcarnage]

Okay, I took the cam with me again and this time I was more in the centre. However this are pictures from the street, this is not a museum guide

Edit: Links fixed

14 Again the view from my window, this time you can see Mount Uetliberg with the TV tower and the lookout tower.
15 16 Heading towards the center (I'm on my bike as I take this shots)
17 The Sihl gets pumped through the Main Station. (National museum in the background)
18 Entrance of the Main Station
19 An older tram coming from Station Street
20 Station Street with its new Christmas decoration, glowing bars
21 Main Station and National Museum again
22 Limmat River, view towards Lake Zurich
23 A tram stop with chocolate advertisements. During WWII, Zurich's biggest bunker for civilians was here.
24 Inside the university. They turn the whole thing into a construction site...
25 Back entrance of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. A professor from here was the first to administrate the Swiss top level domain .ch.
26 View from the Polyterrasse. You can see some of the very few skyscrappers of Zurich...
27 ...the observatory and Mount Uetliberg...
28 29 ...and some churches in the old part of town.
30 Main entrance of the main building of the university.
31 The red "Polybahn" connects Main Station and the Federal Institute of Technology.
32 Inside the Main Station. The clock cube is the meeting point.
33 Timetable.
34 This stagecoach was in use in the Alps. It now is at the entrance of the National Museum, near some cannons.
35 A wing of the National Museum building.
36 Behind the museum is the Platzspitz, a nice park in the center of Zurich.
37 Ten years ago, this was the famous "Needle Park" with many Heroin addicts. It's now completely safe to go there but obviously it's not very crowded when it's 0° C cold.
38 The towers of Saint Peter's church and Grossmünster.
39 The observatory is also open to the public and has a cafe inside.
40 The Lindenhof was a Roman fort and now is a lookout point with a park in the center of Zurich.
41 A narrow alley in the center.
42 St Peter's church has one of the biggest clockfaces in Europe. Its diameter is nearly 10 meters.
43 Parliament house of the city and the canton. World's first heat pump was installed here.
44 The towers of Fraumünster Church.
45 View towards Lake Zurich, with a circus.
46 In the winter you encounter chestnut stands in the city.
47 St. Peter and the Limmat, again.
48 The Water Church. According to the legend, the three city Saints of Zurich died here.
49 Grossmünster Church and a statue of an important mayor from the 14th century.
50 The opera and the meadow, where the traditional "Sechseläuten" takes place each spring (burning a snowman at the stake and members of the historical trade guilds riding around it)
51 The bigger ships aren't on Lake Zurich at the moment.
52 The lake promenade surely looks novemberish.
53 Svcks to be not a migratory bird, eh
54 The flower clock at Lake Zurich.
55 It's not allowed but people place their bikes everywhere anyway.
56 You'll see clocks everywhere you go.
57 You can make your own beeswax candles at Burkliplatz.
58 Like clocks, you'll often see drinking water wells and one way street signs
59 Showcase of a Sprüngli shop, one of the more classy places to buy chocolate.
60 The two big banks of Switzerland both have a house at the Bürkliplatz...
61 ...which is at the Bahnhofstrasse.
62 Now we're leaving the centre. A decorated house.
63 Here comes the rush hour... In the background is one of the three public indoor swimming pools of Zurich. However the Alpamare, 30 minutes from the city, is more entertaining with its slides.