Swiss pages EVELINA RIOUKHINA AND CECILIA BATAC How much do you know about Edelweiss – the Queen of Alpine Flowers? Perhaps, not much. Do you know that this Queen of Alpine Flowers, as the Edelweiss is sometimes called, has its mysteries, legends and paradoxes? Interested to learn more? Welcome to this article! If you [...]
BY SARI RAUBER Mon paradis s’appelle Finhaut. C’est un petit village de montagne, de quelques centaines d’habitants, qui a su préserver tout son charme d’antan. Il est blotti à une altitude de 1237 mètres autour de son église sur le flanc d’une montagne. Très ensoleillé, apprécié pour la douceur de son climat, on peut y [...]
BY EVELINA RIOUKHINA, UNECE Quality label As with other Swiss products (such as chocolate), Switzerland jealously protects the “Swiss made” label, and has signed bilateral and international agreements to enable it to take legal action against counterfeiters. To obtain the label a watch must meet certain minimum conditions. Although some foreign-made components may be used, [...]
BY EVELINA RIOUKHINA To measure time Little is known about the details of timekeeping in prehistoric eras; however, records and artefacts show that in every culture people were preoccupied with measuring and recording the passage of time. Ice-age hunters in Europe over 20,000 years ago scratched lines and gouged holes in sticks and bones, probably [...]
BY EVELINA RIOUKHINA, UNECE Actually, why not celebrate Christmas with a Swiss wine, especially if it comes from a UNESCO World Heritage site – Lavaux (see details in UN Special No. 666).It is not every day that UNESCO celebrates a wine-growing area and it did so not only for the wine, but for the many [...]
EVELINA RIOUKHINA, UNECE Heritage is our legacy from the past, what we live with today, and what we pass on to future generations. Our cultural and natural heritage are both irreplaceable sources of life and inspiration. Places as unique and diverse as the wilds of East Africa’s Serengeti, the Pyramids of Egypt, the Great Barrier [...]
BY EVELINA RIOUKHINA, UNECE The moment the news was announced, the inhabitants of Lavaux, including all the 14 villages concerned : Lutry, Cully, Epesses, Chexbres, Grandvaux, Chardonne, Rivaz, St. Saphorin, Riex, Villette, Puidoux, Corseaux, Jongny and Corsier-sur-Vevey held their breath from joy and then spontaneously the bells in all the churches and abbeys started to ring [...]
1 August (and all national symbols of Switzerland: its flag, its emblem, its anthem) BY EVELINA RIOUKHINA, UNECE In our closest neighbour, France, for example, National Day is 14 July and is known as Bastille Day. It is widely celebrated and the French Tricolour, is much in evidence, while the President of the Republic [...]
BY EVELINA RIOUKHINA I started my journey through the history of Switzerland from far away – from the legend that brought me back almost seven thousand years, to the possible Swiss roots, the lake-dwellers (a site submitted by Switzerland to UNESCO and included in the World Heritage tentative list. The journey through history and [...]
This is unfortunately very true for many of us, international staff. Of course, everybody knows the art and history of his or her country of origin, and anyone who is interested in art, definitely knows the names of epoch-making artists: such as Michelangelo or Leonardo da Vinci… or major trends such as the Renaissance and [...]
EVELINA RIOUKHINA, UNECE A sensational discovery took place slightly more than 150 years ago on the shores of the Lake of Zürich. Low water levels in the winter of 1854 prompted the commune of Meilen to begin construction of a harbour on the shore of Lake Zürich. Embedded in the mud were a number of [...]
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