Zurich is often introduced as Switzerland’s financial centre, but that only tells part of the story. The city has a remarkably compact historic centre, a lake at its doorstep, excellent museums, neighbourhoods that feel very different from one another and a mountain overlooking it all. That combination makes Zurich easy to explore. You can spend the morning walking through medieval streets, have lunch beside the Limmat, take a boat onto Lake Zurich in the afternoon and still