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Zurich. View of the Limmat river embankment. Travel. Europe. Switzerland. Zurich. Zurich (German Zürich, Swiss Züri, French Zurich, Italian Zurigo) is a city in the north-east of Switzerland. The capital of the German-speaking canton of Zurich and the administrative centre of the same district. Zurich is the largest city in the country, located on the shore of Lake Zurich when the Limmat River comes out of it, in the valley between the mountain peaks of Utliberg and Zurichberg. Refers to global cities, Switzerland's largest financial and scientific centre. In ancient times, in the place of Zurich, there was a Celtic-German settlement, in the I century BC. e. which received the Roman name Turicum. As the city was first mentioned in 929. In the XIII-XVII centuries it was an imperial city. In the XIV century entered the Swiss Union. In the XVI century, one of the centres of the Reformation, led by Zwingli. In the second half of the XIX century turned into a financial centre of the country. The city has preserved a significant number of attractions of interest to tourists, including both historical buildings and museums. Among them are: Grossmünster (the largest cathedral in Zurich), Fraumünster (the female abbey, famous for stained glass of Marc Chagall), St. Peter's Church (the oldest church in Zurich with the biggest clock in Europe), Lindenhof - (Lime yard - a square on the mountain with a panoramic view of the city, once a customs point established by the Romans), the Opera House, the Town Hall, the Swiss National Museum (Landesmuseum), the Museum of Dinosaurs (Sauriermuseum), the Collection of the Emil Burle Foundation and many others.