Is your place of origin, your Heimatort, important to you?
Every Swiss citizen has a Heimatort, a place of origin, but many have never visited theirs. What’s your relationship with your Heimatort? What does it mean to you?
What factors should be taken into account when inheriting Swiss citizenship abroad?
Should there be a limit to the passing on of Swiss citizenship? Or is the current practice too strict and it should still be possible to register after the age of 25?
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Investigating 10 myths about Switzerland
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After more than a decade as a journalist in Switzerland, Clare O’Dea explains what motivated her to write a new book on the country.
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How do you laugh like a Swiss? How should foreigners behave? Author Diccon Bewes takes a look these and other intriguing questions in his new book.
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Bewes unearths a hoard of maps, often buried deep in library archives, and guides the reader through the growth and development of Switzerland through the centuries. All but one of the 80 maps are created by hand and range “from the circular island map of 1480 to the birth of modern Swiss cartography; from the…
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A nomadic life has shaped the world view of author Jason Donald. He tells Clare O’Dea about the ‘undeserved privilege’ that has inspired his novels.
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Best-selling author of The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street, Susan Jane Gilman, shares a scoop of the sweet treat with Clare O'Dea.
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Many writers have found shelter, inspiration and adventure in Switzerland. A new book distils two centuries of literature with Swiss connections.
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Countless writers have found inspiration in Switzerland. Irish author Padraig Rooney takes us on a literary walking tour of Basel.
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In his book, The Gilded ChaletExternal link, Padraig Rooney describes the escapades of a wide spectrum of wordsmiths including Byron, Conan Doyle, le Carré, Hesse and Highsmith. In the nineteenth century they came for fresh air and alpine scenery, escaping the disease and smog of major cities. Switzerland became a byword for health cures and…
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Clare O’Dea visits author Alison Anderson in her Lake Geneva home, close to echoes of her past, as part of our English-language author series.
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American writer Chantal Panozzo lived in Switzerland for almost ten years – long enough to fill a book with nearly 100 travel tips.
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