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Zurich is the new Berlin, and the party's just begun. No hesitation, no competition. This formerly staid banking capital has experienced such a creative explosion in recent years, and such a mushrooming of innovative bars, restaurants and shops that it resembles Berlin's salad days of the mid-eighties and early nineties.

The Beyer Museum is devoted to time pieces of all kinds, from shadow sticks to striated medieval candles to Renaissance table clocks to watches that check their own accuracy via a wireless connection with an atomic clock. The exhibition is arranged chronologically and has a technical as well as an aesthetic emphasis.

Zurich has an extreme variety of possibilities for night-time-leisure. It became one of the capitals of Europe's electronic music scene and it's the host city of the

world-famous Street Parade.

The most famous districts for Nightlife are the Niederdorf in the Old City District with Bars, Restaurants, Lounges, Hotels, Clubs, etc. and a lot of fashion shops for a young and stylish public and the Langstrasse in the District 4 and 5 of the city: Here you find more rough but authentic amusements: Brazilian Bars, Punk-Clubs, Hip-Hop-Stages, Caribbean-Restaurants, Arthouse-Cinemas, Turkish-Kebabs and Italian Espresso-Bars, but also Sex-shops or the famous Red Light District of Zürich. At the Langstrasse you find the very international and multicultural heart of Zürich.

But in the last ten years new spots were created: Zurich West District within the old District 5, with its heart around the Escher-Wyss-Plaza and the S-Bahn Station of Hardbrücke with its cinemas (Abaton-Cinemax-Complex), music-clubs, lounges, restaurants, cafés and bars and the dependence of the most important theatre of the City: Schiffbau. New hotels were also build in this young quarter, which lives mostly during nighttime and weekends: Hotel Ibis, Novotel Accor (on the stunning Turbinenplatz - a new Plaza built with an interesting light design) and Etap Hotel. During day you can visit art galleries, fashion shops (e.g. Freitag-Bags), organic-food stores and Puls 5 Complex at the Turbinenplatz: a Mall with an interesting architectural mix of modern and old, especially the huge Central Court.