Swiss Path

The Swiss Path winds around the deep Lake of Uri, sometimes high up, then again directly on the shore. Sometimes it leads you over steps carved into the rock, then it runs along wide, comfortable paths, past many resting and bathing places. Again and again you can enjoy a magnificent view of the lake and the surrounding mountains. Thanks to the boat service, you have a choice of many possible starting points and destinations.

The initiators succeeded in linking a maximum sense of home with the trail. At the centre is the Rütli, an unspectacular meadow that is emotionally charged by historical symbolism like no other place in Switzerland. Tell's Plateau with the Tell's Chapel is also part of the obligatory visit programme.

The attachment of the Swiss to this path is further strengthened by the idea that the Swiss Path is divided into 26 cantonal sections. Their order results from the cantons' entry into the Confederation. The length of the cantonal sections, in turn, is based on the cantonal population in 1991, when each person was symbolically given 5 millimetres.