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Delve into Grossbasel
The district Grossbasel of Basel in Basel-Stadt (Canton of Basel-City) is a subburb in Switzerland about 43 mi north of Bern, the country's capital town.
If you need a hotel, we compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
While being here, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Arlesheim, Eimeldingen, Binzen, Grenzach-Wyhlen and Fischingen. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 9°C / 48 °F
Morning Temperature | 4°C / 38 °F |
Evening Temperature | 10°C / 49 °F |
Night Temperature | 5°C / 40 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 2% |
Air Humidity | 65% |
Air Pressure | 998 hPa |
Wind Speed | Moderate breeze with 10 km/h (7 mph) from East |
Cloud Conditions | Overcast clouds, covering 100% of sky |
General Conditions | Moderate rain |
Friday, 29th of March 2024
14°C (57 °F)
9°C (48 °F)
Overcast clouds, gentle breeze.
Saturday, 30th of March 2024
16°C (60 °F)
8°C (46 °F)
Light rain, moderate breeze, overcast clouds.
Sunday, 31st of March 2024
16°C (61 °F)
8°C (47 °F)
Light rain, gentle breeze, overcast clouds.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Les Trois Rois Grand Hotel
Spalentor
Euler
GAIA Hotel
The Passage
Victoria
Hotel D
Basel Radisson Blu Hotel
Merian Am Rhein
Hotel Basel
Videos from this area
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Morgestraich 2015 (Basler Fasnacht)
Dieser Jahr zum Motto: «Mr basse in kai Schublaade» Basel, 04:00 Uhr, 23. Februar 2015 Neu auch in 4 facher FullHD Auflösung: http://youtu.be/GmUIE6h2v2Q (4k, UHD)
Basel Trolleybus & Tram 1989
Video8 opnamen uit de zomer van 1989 van het trolley en trambedrif van Basel, Zwitserland. Sinds 2008 kent Basel geen trolleybedrijf meer en zet men in op de Gasbus die weliswaar schoner is...
Grand Hotel Les Trois Rois, Basel, Switzerland - Unravel Travel TV
The Grand Hotel Les Trois Rois is situated in the heart of the picturesque old town of Basel in Switzerland, right on the banks of the Rhine. The trade fair centre, museums and shops are all...
ティンゲリーの噴水 Fasnachts-Brunnen (Tinguely-Brunnen) Basel Switzerland
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Fasching / Karneval / Fasnacht Basel 2012 . PINK PANTHER . switzerland 瑞士 スイス
Basel ( primtec@gmx.ch ) PRIMTEC TELEVISION Video Tip auf You Tube: BASEL CUT http://youtu.be/JTgJk6rhwrg Die Basler Fasnacht ist die grösste Fasnacht der Schweiz. Sie beginnt am Montag ...
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
University of Basel
The University of Basel is located in Basel, Switzerland, and is considered to be one of leading universities in the country. In 2011, QS World University Rankings ranked the university 151st overall in the world, while a year before it was ranked 96–98th worldwide according to the Russian based Global University Ranking.
Walls of Basel
The Basel City Walls are a former complex of walls in the central part of the Swiss city of Basel. The first city wall was completed around 1080 under bishop Burkhard von Fenis. A newer wall was constructed around 1230, which is known as the Inner Wall. In 1362 the construction of a larger wall complex began due to the city's expansion; it was completed in 1398, and is known as the Outer Wall. In 1859 the city's executive decided to raze wall and gates to the ground.
Birsig
The Birsig is a rather small river in eastern France and northern Switzerland. Its source is in the village Biederthal, in the French Haut-Rhin department, near the Swiss border. The Birsig is about 21 kilometers long and its watershed area is about 82 square kilometers. It flows variably through Swiss and French territory and through the Birsig Valley. Afterwards it passes the city of Basel, where it enters the Rhine river (left bank).
Basel Historical Museum
Opened in 1894, the Basel Historical Museum (German: Historisches Museum Basel) is one of the largest and most important museums of its kind in Switzerland, and a heritage site of national significance.
Gate of Steinen
The Gate of Steinen is a former city gate in the ancient city walls of Basel, Switzerland. It was pulled down in 1866 along with all but three city gates and most of the city walls.
Gate of Ashes
The Gate of Ashes is a former city gate in the ancient city walls of Basel, Switzerland. It was pulled down in 1861 along with three other gateways and the city walls. The derivation of the name Aeschen is not definitely proven. It may come either from the word "Asche" (German for ash) or from the word "Esche"; in fact both German words have the same English translation.
Rhine Gate
The Rhine Gate is a former city gate in the ancient city walls of Basel, Switzerland. It had been pulled down in 1839, about twenty years before three other gateways and the city walls were pulled down. The position of the Rhine Gate was at the Rhine bridge on the western river bord.
Museum of Cultures (Basel)
The Museum of Cultures in Basel is a Swiss museum of ethnography with large and important collections of artifacts, especially from Europe, the South Pacific, Mesoamerica, Tibet, and Bali. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
2006 European Curling Championships
The 2006 European Curling Championships were held (December 9–16), 2006 at the St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland.
Pharmazie-Historisches Museum der Universität Basel
The Pharmazie-Historisches Museum (Museum of Pharmacy) in Basel, Switzerland, is dedicated to pharmaceutical history and houses one of the world’s largest collections on the subject. It features ceramic pharmaceutical vessels, complete pharmacy interiors, an alchemistic laboratory, mortars, first-aid kits, books, medications from bygone eras and everything related to the historic manufacture of pharmaceuticals. The museum is a heritage site of national significance.
Basel Minster
The Basel Minster is one of the main landmarks and tourist attractions of the Swiss city of Basel. It adds definition to the cityscape with its red sandstone architecture and coloured roof tiles, its two slim towers and the cross-shaped intersection of the main roof. The Münster is listed as a heritage site of national significance in Switzerland. Originally a Catholic cathedral and today a reformed Protestant church, it was built between 1019 and 1500 in Romanesque and Gothic styles.
Kunstmuseum Basel
The Kunstmuseum Basel houses the largest and most significant public art collection in Switzerland, and is listed as a heritage site of national significance. Its lineage extends back to the Amerbach Cabinet purchased by the city of Basel in 1661, which made it the first municipally owned museum. Its collection is distinguished by an impressively wide historic span, from the early 15th century up to the immediate present.
Dollhouse Museum
The Dollhouse Museum in Basel is the largest museum of its kind in Europe. The museum is located at Barfüsserplatz in the city center.
Swiss Architecture Museum
Through its program of temporary exhibitions and events, the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum (German: S AM Schweizerisches Architektur Museum) in Basel contributes to international debates on architecture and urban development as well as related sociopolitical aspects. In addition, the museum issues publications and holds special events in conjunction with the exhibitions. Its premises are located within the Kunsthalle Basel.
Natural History Museum of Basel
With a heritage dating back over 300 years, the Natural History Museum of Basel (German: Naturhistorisches Museum Basel) in Basel, Switzerland, houses wide-ranging collections primarily focused on the fields of zoology, entomology, mineralogy, anthropology, osteology and paleontology. Its mission is to expand, conserve, explore, document and communicate the over 7.7 million objects in its holdings, which are conceived as an “Archive of Life”.
Music Museum (Basel)
The Music Museum of the Basel History Museum in the former Lohnhof prison houses Switzerland’s largest collection of musical instruments. The Music Museum is a heritage site of national significance. It was opened in 2000 and presents five centuries of music history with three areas of emphasis: 650 instruments from the 16th to 20th Centuries; concerts, choral music and dance; parades, festivals and signals. Visitors can also hear how the instruments sound via a multimedia information system.
Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig
Founded in 1961, the Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig (Basel Museum of Ancient Art and Ludwig Collection) is one of the many museums in the Swiss city of Basel and a heritage site of national significance. The museum is devoted exclusively to the art of ancient civilizations from the 4th millennium BC to the 7th century AD. The only one of its kind in Switzerland, the museum shows works of art from the Mediterranean region, predominantly from the period from 1000 BC to 300 AD.
Kunsthalle Basel
Kunsthalle Basel forms a vital part of Basel’s cultural centre and is located next to the city’s theatre and opposite the concert house Stadtcasino,. Kunsthalle Basel is a place for innovative exhibitions that bring together local and international, avant-garde, emerging and contemporary tendencies and offers space for the presentation of new works and unique methodologies as well as for a wide range of public programs that include artist talks, performances, film screenings and music events.
Museum of Contemporary Art (Basel)
The Museum of Contemporary Art (German: Museum für Gegenwartskunst) in Basel opened in 1980 as the first public museum in Europe exclusively dedicated to the production and practice of contemporary art from the 1960s to the present. It is a heritage site of national significance. In addition to classic media such as painting and sculpture, it also collects video art.
City of Basel Music Academy
The City of Basel Music Academy (German: Musik-Akademie der Stadt Basel) is an institution for music education, located in Basel, Switzerland. It comprises a music school, college of music, and a center for early music research and performance. The Academy is affiliated with the University of Applied Sciences Northwest Switzerland.
Theater Basel
Theater Basel is the municipal theatre of the city of Basel, Switzerland, which is home to the city's opera and ballet companies. The theatre also presents plays and musicals in addition to operas and operettas. Because the theatre does not have its own orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra Basel is usually contracted to perform for opera and ballet productions as needed. For baroque-opera productions, La Cetra, the baroque orchestra of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, is engaged.
Basel-Münsterhügel
The Basel oppidum, known as Basel-Münsterhügel, is an Iron Age fort constructed by the Celtic Rauraci in the second half of the 1st century BC, after the battle of Bibracte (58 BC). The fort was situated on what is now the Münsterhügel in the Swiss city of Basel. The site was excavated by Furger-Gunti in the 1970s. There is an older undefended La Tène site at Basel Gasfabrik, not far from the oppidum which was abandoned after the fort was completed.
Elisabethenkirche, Basel
The Elisabethenkirche is a church building in the centre of Basel, next to the Theater Basel. The best known neo Gothic building in Switzerland, its 72 metre high tower is taller than those of the city's minster church and can be climbed.
The Blue and The White House
The Blue and The White House (Blaues und Weisses Haus) are two town mansions in the city of Basel. The semi-detached baroque mansions on the Rheinsprung 16 and 18 in Basel, also known as “The Reichensteinerhof” and “The Wendelstörferhof”, were built by the architect Samuel Werenfels for the brothers Lukas and Jakob Sarasin between 1763 and 1775. “The White House” belonged to Lukas (1730 – 1802) and “The Blue House” to his younger brother Jakob (1742 – 1802).
Basel Town Hall
The Basel Town Hall is a five hundred years old building dominating the Marktplatz in Basel. The Town Hall houses the meetings of the Cantonal Parliament as well as the Cantonal Government of the canton of Basel-Stadt. The Great Council Chamber at one time featured a series of frescoes painted in 1522 by Hans Holbein the Younger however these have mostly been lost. Fragments of the work as well as some of the initial drawings are kept in the Kunstmuseum.