If you are staying at a hotel or an Airbnb property, you may request a free BaselCard to get 50 percent off museum admission fees, free public transportation and free Wi-Fi at various hot spots. īut for the more art-focused visitors, Basel’s many museums are the draw. If the weather is good, another place for a stroll, he said, is the English-style landscaped garden of the Ermitage, in Arlesheim, about a 20-minute tram ride from Basel’s central train station. He also recommended Deck57, “a great bar on the upper deck of a converted cargo ship” (weather permitting). “ Le Rhin Bleu is a special place to eat, with swimmers just below your feet as you take in the spectacle of the river,” he wrote. Jörn Günther, a local rare-book dealer, said by email.
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įor a more formal experience, there’s a chance a table may be free at the otherwise fully booked five-star Grand Hotel des Trois Roi for a cocktail and a canapé on the balcony of its river-view bar. Throughout the week, a visitor to Lido, a pop-up social space for eating, drinking and socializing, can be rewarded with a drink, a pizza or a game of bocce or beach volleyball. Antiques and other secondhand goods can be found on Saturdays at the flea market in Petersplatz, while international food stalls and produce vendors are open daily in the revamped Markthalle (Market Hall), which sometimes has free live music in the evening. The 90-minute Holbein Walk, named for the German portrait artist Hans Holbein the Younger who lived in Basel in the 16th century, takes you from the Old Town and across the river by foot or by ferry to Kleinbasel, a multicultural area with vibrant streets and squares.
The Erasmus Walk, for example, which takes about 30 minutes with some uphill sections, includes the grave site of the humanist philosopher Erasmus of Rotterdam. The guide and an audio app can also be downloaded in advance. The Basel Tourism office in the Stadtcasino at Barfüsserplatz can get visitors started, with a brochure that includes five “circular” walking tours (they start and end at the same place). Here’s a taste of what else to see and do in Basel - a city synonymous with art fairs, watch fairs and the tennis star Roger Federer, who was born here. Armed with face masks and Covid-related documents, art lovers and collectors descending on Basel, Switzerland, this month for the Art Basel fair may want to step outside the cavernous exhibition space in Messeplatz to explore this city on the Rhine.