“The Inns at Zürich are notoriously soiled, excessive priced and unwell attended.” A minimum of that’s what journey author John Murray declared in his 1838 guidebook Murray’s Handbook for Travellers in Switzerland. Its publication launched the nation as a vacationer vacation spot, and it additionally coincided with the opening of Lodge Baur, the primary respectable resort on the town. (Along with 140 beds, it had stables for as much as 40 horses.)

Based by Johannes Baur, a shrewd baker from Austria, it quick grew to become the place to remain, and a few say that its widespread roof terrace was the world’s first. Right this moment, the stables are gone, however the resort stays. Its wealthy and colourful historical past is woven by means of totally different chapters of its existence because the Baur, the Baur en Ville and, since 1908, the Savoy Baur en Ville.