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ABOVE: Salzburg woodcarver at work.


General Information

Shopping Hours switzerlandforvisitors.com
Swiss and Austrian shops keep shorter hours than their counterparts in many other countries, so print out these tables and take them on your trip.

Holiday Shopping

Swiss Christmas Markets switzerlandforvisitors.com
Shop for ornaments and gifts, nosh on baked goods, and soak up the Advent atmosphere at Switzerland's traditional Christmas markets in late November and December.

Malls in Switzerland

Mythen Center, Schwyz
The Swiss have succumbed to the shopping-mall phenomenon. Mythen Center is in Schwyz, a cantonal capital where the Swiss flag was born.

RailCity
Shop until 9 p.m. at the SBB's railroad-station malls in Zürich, Basel, Bern, Winterthur, Geneva, and Lausanne.

Swiss shopping guides

Bahnhofstrasse, Zürich switzerlandforvisitors.com
An article, with retailers' Web links, about one of Europe's most elegant shopping streets.

Web shopping

Orell Füssli
An outstanding bookstore in Zürich, with more than 250,000 German-language titles available on the shelves or from an online catalog.

Schweizer Heimatwerk
Bahnhofstrasse 2
Quality crafts and other handmade goods from Switzerland.

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