All You Need Is Art – In Basel
Art is redemptive – as the people of Basel know so well, and especially those young of heart. This, after all, is where the youth of the city took to the streets in 1967 to prevent the sale of several works by Picasso. For years, two Picassos had hung in…
Basel, Switzerland
With suburbs in three countries (and that airport on French soil), Basel represents a kind of postmodern EU, where ideas and cultures are as fluid as Schengen Area border crossings.
Hotel Ramada Plaza Basel: Basel, Switzerland
At 344 feet, the 31-story Basler Messeturm (Trade Fair Tower) is the tallest building in all of Switzerland. Completed in 2003, the glass-sheathed leviathan in shimmering aquamarine appears to rise from the Rhine. And while it might seem incongruous to…
Blissful Culture Overdose in Basel, Switzerland
The airport is in France – but your ticket says Switzerland – and the official language is German. Carmen Sandiego, where are we now? Located on the river Rhine in the northwestern corner of Switzerland, where the borders of Switzerland,…
Acqua Osteria: Basel, Switzerland
Perhaps on an afternoon when you’ve found yourself at the Basel Zoo, you might wander past a converted waterworks, only to realize that this former pumping station is now an Italian osteria with garden. Local nighthawks could’ve told you that Acqua…
Restaurant Atelier at Der Teufelhof: Basel, Switzerland
The French word for “studio,” Atelier connotes art and the spaces in which it is created – and is, therefore, entirely apt as the name of the new restaurant in Der Teufelhof Basel. More than twenty years ago, in 1989, Der Teufelhof…