Bern, capital of Switzerland, lies at an altitude of 542m, the plains of Switzerland, located approximately in the center of the plain country.

Surrounding landscape was formed by glaciers during the last glaciatii. Berne is located between two mountains: Mount Gurten an altitude of 858 meters in southern city and the mountain with an altitude of 947 Bantiger meters located to the east.

Temperatures in Bern is between -5 degrees Celsius in winter and 20 degrees Celsius in summer, during July and August.

Bern City Center is located on a peninsula formed by the river Aare (V Berchthold deczie Zähringen taken by the twelfth century,) but in the nineteenth century, new districts were formed across a river, accessible by bridges high - first Nydegg bridge was in 1843 with a length of 190 meters, then came in 1883 Kirchenfeld bridge 229 meters in 1898 Kornhaus bridge with 382 meters to 1930 meters with 178 Lorraine bridge, and then in 1962 with a long bridge Monbijou 337,5 meters.

After a fire in 1405, when the city was largely destroyed, was rebuilt in molasses. Greenish color of the buildings is typical of downtown Bern. The medieval center was inscribed on the UNESCO list of world cultural heritage and includes covered walkways (arcades) decorated with statues and fountains.

Other important monuments are: Zytglogge, a medieval tower with a clock very elaborate puppet that moves, Münster, a gothic cathedral in the fifteenth century hall in the same century. Since the sixteenth century found Berne bears den, which is beyond the bridge Nydegg. Bundeshaus, Parliament House, which was built between 1852 and 1902 and he can be visited.

Besides the monuments, the city also offers Zoo Dälhölzli Berne, Rosengarten Rose garden (which was a cemetery before it was turned into the park in 1913), and Marzili pool, located directly in the river Aare.

Bern has many museums, distributed throughout the city. In downtown, the street was added in 1879 Hodlerstrasse oldest museum in Switzerland in Bern Art Museum. Not far from the museum building is located "progr," the city's first gimanaziu Bern, today serving the exhibition or concert halls.
In Kirchenfeld, Helvetiaplatz is Landesmuseum, Historische Museum, Swiss Alpine Museum and the Kunsthalle. Not far from here there and Communications Museum of natural history museum with diorama.

In the east there is an old city Kramgasse, with many shops housed in the baroque style building, with impressive arches, dating from the eighteenth century. Here at No 49, you will find Einstein Memorial House, in fact, a brilliant physicist apartment where he lived and worked, after a few years earlier graduated Institute of Technology in Zurich. Here you will find one specific ornate fountains of Berne, this ornament features a bear in the armor, carrying the banner of the city founder, Berchtold von Zahringen.

Just outside the town is located on the A6 motorway in June 2005 the Zentrum Paul Klee center, which includes around 4,000 works of painter Paul Klee