The Art of Basel, Switzerland | A City of Steps & Masterpiece Crossroads

Greetings fellow Worldmappers, Discoverers and Travellers.

Today i would like to share with you a stroll through the second biggest city in Switzerland - Basel.

For the record this stroll is gonna be filled with random moments with expected photography skills so some photos will have more juice in them than others.

So we’re gonna start with the Swiss part then we gonna move to the French part then we gonna move to the Swiss part again. This is gonna be a chronological stroll of a couple consecutive days.

Basel is basically a city that is spread on 3 parts Swiss,French and German part and it’s very unusually structured, because you can definitely feel the parts more like districts than cultural parts like a video game or sort.

It’s very beautiful and chill but it definitely feels very hollow, because the rumours are true - Switzerland is as boring as it’s beautiful.

The photos you’ve seen are basically in the middle of Basel right before a bridge you’ll see in a couple of seconds which leads to the french part of the city, but right before it its probably the most beautiful part of it. Now we gonna take a walk on the bridge and then we gonna walk by the river.

Oh by the way the huge boat you gonna see on the first photo is basically a tourist boat that roams around the river and literally drifts in the water. Unfortunately I didn’t hop on it, but i have some photos from a boat which I’m gonna include in a different post so no worries.

Yeah it’s nice, but it’s kinda unusual, because the whole part of this river is basically a chill zone for people. You can see people swimming, rowing, smoking, reading, drinking all sorts of normal activities a normal person does and it’s sorta crowded, but it’s very chill at the same time.

Just gonna share with you some more late night walks through the city and we will hop onto the next chapter of the post.

The Quiet Corners

This part is gonna be a cityscape part where i roam around the hills or what should i call it the high ground of the city which of course is in the rich neighbourhoods and to be honest i was left with very nice reward at the end, because i managed to get an amazing view on the top.

You know at first glance it all looks very tidy and lined for a person like me, because i come from Eastern Europe and after a couple of days you don’t notice it, but after a while it becomes too tidy I can’t explain it hehe.

Anyway here’s the views and just to point out some of the photos might be shot on long exposure mode, so if you are watching from a laptop sorry. 😄

Yeah nice right? That’s what i call a nice Swiss cityscape view i’m gonna continue our stroll in a second part, cuz the stroll was too big i hope you enjoyed my post and see you in part 2! 😄