• Switzerland Guide

  • Introduction to Switzerland
  • Weather
  • Things not to miss
  • Getting around
  • Money
  • Entry requirements
  • Public holidays

• Explore Switzerland

  • Geneva
  • Lausanne and Lake Geneva
  • The Arc Jurassien
  • Basel
  • Bern
  • The Emmental
  • Solothurn
  • Fribourg
  • The Bernese Oberland
  • Valais
  • Luzern
  • Zentralschweiz
  • Zürich
  • Ostschweiz and Liechtenstein
  • Graubünden
  • Ticino

• Cities

  • Basel
    
  • Bern
    
  • Geneva
    
  • Lausanne
    
  • Luzern
    
  • Schaffhausen
    
  • St Gallen
    
  • Winterthur
    
  • Zürich
    

Switzerland Guide

Solothurn

• Accommodation
• Eating

Solothurn (Soleure in French) is touted as the most beautiful Baroque city in Switzerland – with justification. Its compact but characterful Old Town is crammed with an odd architectural mix of Swiss-German sturdiness and Italianate excess dating from the town's heyday in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It's an easy day-trip from points all over the Mittelland, with a couple of fine Baroque churches, a worthwhile art gallery and a high viewpoint nearby for breezy walks.