A view of the Limmat River in Zurich.
Buttoned-down? Bourgeois? Boring? As a banking center that enjoys one of the world’s highest standards of living, Zurich often gets tagged with unhip B-words and brushed down to the B-list of global cities. Yet Switzerland’s largest metropolis has long been a creative hub — it was the birthplace of Dadaism, the sometime residence of James Joyce and site of the last building that Le Corbusier designed before his death — and today the innovations continue. A surging restaurant scene is mingling gastronomy with rock ’n’ roll, while the night life encompasses everything from experimental cocktail bars to 4 a.m. electro clubs. Mix in an impressive shopping smorgasbord, from multiple markets to the luxury boutiques of Bahnhofstrasse to the indie designers and vintage shops in the emerging industrial zones, and Zurich seems worthy of a very different B-word: buzzing.
Source by: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/03/10/travel/what-to-do-in-36-hours-in-zurich.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Ftravel
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