View of the Bernese Alps – View of Gürbetal loop from Burgistein
View of the Bernese Alps – View of Gürbetal loop from Burgistein
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View of the Bernese Alps – View of Gürbetal loop from Burgistein
01:53
42.4km
370m
Road cycling
Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.
Last updated: June 19, 2026
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Cycling is not permitted along parts of this route
After 19.5 km for 191 m
After 21.4 km for 51 m
Waypoints
Start point
Train Station
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8.64 km
View of the Bernese Alps
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15.0 km
View of Gürbetal
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21.4 km
Rendez-vous Bundesplatz
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21.5 km
Federal Palace of Switzerland (Bundeshaus)
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On April 1, 1902, the new building was ceremoniously handed over to the Swiss Confederation.
Where a music hall and an old hospital once stood, parliament and government now meet. The Federal Palace in Bern has its task of uniting the country's inhabitants literally carved in stone.
When the Federal Constitution came into force on September 12, 1848, the question of where the government and parliament should be located was not yet clear. It was not until November that the Federal Assembly decided on Bern as the seat of the authorities. Two years later, the Bern municipal council announced an architectural competition for the "Federal City Hall". In the meantime, the Federal Council met in the Erlacherhof, the current seat of the Bern government.
With the total revision of the Federal Constitution in 1874, the federal government was suddenly given new areas of responsibility that had previously been the responsibility of the cantons. The administration soon reached its space limits and a new building was needed. The city therefore handed over its responsibility to the federal government two years later. In 1880, he bought the Inselspital building, which had to make way for the new Federal Palace seven years later. An architectural competition was held again, and Alfred Friedrich Bluntschli and Hans Wilhelm Auer were chosen as the winners. This is how today's Federal Palace East was created, a symmetrical counterpart to the existing "Federal City Hall" in the west.
Eleven years later, the two architects Bluntschli and Auer were invited to another competition, this time for a parliament building between the two administrative wings. Although an international committee of architects was called upon to select the best design, in 1891 the Federal Council decided on its own authority to accept Hans Wilhelm Auer's proposal. This proposed a domed building in the style of the Capitol in Washington D.C. After several years of work, 30 types of Swiss stone were used with the help of 38 local artists to create a national monument with an impact on all cantons. The new building was ceremoniously handed over to the Swiss Confederation on April 1, 1902. The building cost 7.2 million Swiss francs – compared to today's conditions, this would be equivalent to around 700 million Swiss francs.
Text / Source: SRF Swiss Radio and Television
srf.ch/news/bundeshaus-und-parlament-geschichte-des-bundeshäuser
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21.6 km
Bear Square
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The square that is now called Bundesplatz was created at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. At that time, the area of the Oberer Graben (part of the medieval city fortifications from 1256), which had been filled in between 1570 and 1630, was expanded and redesigned towards the east. The square in front of the new parliament building (Bundeshaus) was initially called "Parliament Square" and then, from 1909, "Bundesplatz". Bundesplatz is lined by the government and parliament buildings of the Swiss Confederation on the south side and by the mighty buildings of the Swiss National Bank in the east and the Bern Cantonal Bank in the west. On the north side are Bärenplatz and Waisenhausplatz, which were also created by filling in old defensive ditches. Together, the three squares now form the heart of the city center.
Text / Source: CITY OF BERN
bern.ch/zu-gast-in-bern/sehenswurdigkeiten/bundesplatz/die-geschichte
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34.6 km
Thunstrasse with View of the Alps
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42.4 km
End point
Train Station
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
31.0 km
8.57 km
2.54 km
364 m
Surfaces
42.0 km
458 m
< 100 m
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Elevation
Highest point (610 m)
Lowest point (510 m)
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