Basel — City in Switzerland. Leave Basel after breakfast, explore a European city, and fly home the same evening — no hotel, no overnight.
Basel is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine, at the transition from the High Rhine to the Upper Rhine. Basel is Switzerland's third most populous city (after Zurich and Geneva), with 177,595 inhabitants within the city municipality limits. Basel is commonly considered to be the cultural capital of Switzerland and the city's museums include the Kunstmuseum, which was the first collection of art accessible to the public in the world (1661) and the largest museum of art in Switzerland, the Fondation Beyeler (located in Riehen), the Museum Tinguely and the Museum of Contemporary Art, which was the first public museum of contemporary art in Europe.
One of Switzerland's underrated tourist destinations, Basel has a beautiful medieval old town centre, a fascinating carnival, and several world class art museums built by architects like Renzo Piano, Mario Botta and Herzog & De Meuron. Basel is also rich in architecture old and new, with a Romanesque Münster (cathedral), a Renaissance Rathaus (town hall), and various examples of high quality contemporary architecture, including more buildings by Herzog & De Meuron, Richard Meier, Diener & Diener, and various others.
Looking for a same-day city trip from Basel? Choose Saturdays or Sundays for morning-out, evening-back flights from Basel. Compare deals across nearby destinations and book through Kiwi.com — ideal when you want a full day abroad without a hotel.
Basel — City in Switzerland.
A same-day return: fly out of Basel in the morning, spend the day in another European city, and fly home the same evening — no hotel and no overnight stay.
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