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EXPERIENCE Zürich

The Fraumünster
church and one of its
Bodmer frescoes in the
DRINK cloisters (inset)

Old Crow
Expertly mixed 11
cocktails in an elegantly Fraumünster
intimate setting.
 C2 ⌂ Schwanengasse  C3 ⌂ Am 1970. They depict biblical
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4 ¢ Sun ∑ oldcrow.ch 211 41 00 # Nov–Mar: themes, and a different colour
10am–4pm daily; Apr–Oct: predominates in each. The
Widder 10am–6pm daily central window, where green
An extensive wine list is the prevailing colour, depicts
served with an The history of the Women’s scenes from the life of Christ.
innovative menu. Minster goes back to 853, It is flanked by a blue window
 C2 ⌂ Widdergasse 6 when King Ludwig the with a design inspired by the
∑ widderhotel.com German made his daughter visions of Jacob, and a yellow
Hildegard the abbess of a window known as the Zion
convent here. The convent window, which featur es King
Tales Bar was dissolved during the David and the New Jerusalem.
Creative and bespoke Reformation, and the site is The rosette in the south
cocktails, plus live music occupied by the Stadthaus, a transept, illustrating the
 C2 ⌂ Selnaustrassse Neo-Gothic building that is Creation, was also designed
29 ¢ Sun ∑ tales-bar.ch now used for exhibitions. by Chagall. The north transept
The church, however, has a window with a giant
Raygrodski Bar survives. It has a mid-13th- vision of Paradise created by
Buzzy with a hipsterish century presbytery in the late Augusto Gia cometti and
vibe, this laid-back spot Romanesque style, an early installed in 1940.
is named after the Swiss Gothic transept and a nave The Romanesque cloisters
sexual reformer. that has been remodelled on the south side of the
several times. The Neo-Gothic church are decor ated with
 A2 ⌂ Sihlfeldstrasse
49 ¢ Sun ∑ raygrod façade was added in 1911. frescoes executed by Paul
ski.ch The presbytery is lit by Bodmer in 1923–32. They
five stained-glass windows tell the story of the convent’s
designed by Marc Chagall foundation and illustrate the
(1887–1985) and made in lives of Felix and Regula, the
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