For more than three centuries, the café has been a place of freedom, emblematic of intellectual life on the Old Continent. There, thinkers, writers and artists meet. Ideas boil through conversations, before crystallizing in works and spreading in society. Travel among those illustrious cafes that the Encyclopedia called "spirit factories".
Special Envoy in Zurich
When leaving Zurich main station, the largest in the Swiss Confederation, turn right and then walk along the banks of the Limmat, the local river.
A few minutes' walk in the insolently clean streets for the Parisian that we are and here is Place Bellevue, the nerve center of the most populous metropolis in the country with its 400,000 inhabitants.
The richest too.
The headquarters of Swiss banking and insurance, Zurich is also home to hundreds of SMEs and technology start-ups.
At the corner of Place Bellevue, an institution has been standing since the
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