Off to pastures new and snow-capped peaks afar with ETHorama
With ETHorama you can travel through Switzerland with just a few clicks, encountering history and fascinating stories, going on adventures and gaining insights. It’s an ingenious digital meetup with Switzerland.
Delve into the fascinating world of ETHorama! Meet Michel de Montaigne, the eminent humanist and free-spirited maverick who took a closer look at the customs (and depravities!) of the Swiss. Find out where Alexandre Dumas, the author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, took a bath in whey. Accompany these two famous writers and many other personalities on their travels through Switzerland and see where they stopped along the way, what they experienced and who they met.
On an interactive map, ETHorama offers innovative access to digitized documents of ETH Library that are directly related to Switzerland. Some of the content is linked to georeferenced locations on the Google Maps-based map. ETHorama contains a wide range of thematic collections on history, nature, technology and sport but also includes travelogues of famous personalities that provide historical insights into places in Switzerland.
You can discover the trips they took and much more on ETHorama.
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