City tours for newcomers
From 2011, newcomers to the city will be offered tours of the city featuring valuable tips on everyday life in Basel.
Tips will be provided on shopping, cultural facilities and leisure programmes, as well as introductions to essential themes such as transport, postal, and health services. The tour lasts two and a half hours.
The start of the tour leads past Tourist Information, a central contact point for cultural and leisure planning in Basel and the region. Further stations of the tour include the SBB/SNCF railway station, shopping in Freie Strasse, the Tinguely Fountain and the Theater Basel, the suburb of Steinen, Barfüsserplatz, the public transport customer centre, Weisse Gasse 20 with its state and private agencies for child day-care services, the post office, a bookshop specialising in the requirements of expats and anglophile residents, Petersgraben with the emergency chemist and the university hospital and, of course, the centrepiece of the Canton of Basel-Stadt, the town hall or Rathaus.
The city tours are a joint project organised by the divisions of External Affairs and Marketing and Equality and Integration of the Department of Presidential Affairs of Canton Basel-Stadt and Basel Tourism. They will also be introduced at the Welcome initiatives for newcomers (Download flyer "Welcome").
Tours in 2012
English: 4 February, 2 June, 11 August, 8 September, 10 November
French: 28 April
German: 31 March, 23 June, 13 October
Start/Meeting point: 10 am in front of Tourist Information at the SBB railway station.
End: 12.30 pm in the city centre
Registration with Basel Tourism on Tel. 061 268 68 68 or email: info@basel.com
Download Flyer City tour for newcomers
