The buildings in the Old City, dating from a variety of periods, include 15th-century arcades and 16th-century fountains. Most of the medieval town was restored in the ... under license CC-BY-SA IGO 3 ...

The riverfront city is the second-oldest colonial town in the state after Bath. Its mascot and coat of arms is a bear, the English translation of the old Germanic word, "bern." Founded October ...

Bern is Switzerland's beautiful capital city, 55 mi/90 km west of Lucerne ... The Aare River loops around the compact Old Town, and on clear days there's a beautiful view of the distant Alps.

Jürg arrived in Thun back in 1971 as a starry-eyed 21-year-old and never left ... lured away by the excitement of Bern, the capital city to the north, or glitzy Interlaken to the south.