World Travel 4 Indians offer a chance to Travel to Switzerland and know various facts of Switzerland Culture.

Switzerland is a country of translation culture. Cultural diversity is seen in its different languages, religion and in diverse geography. Switzerland is especially known for its art and architeture. There is a wide range of historical monuments in Switzerland.

Culture of Switzerland is mainly a mixture of three different cultures-German, France and Italian. There are differenences between areas, language accordingly as well as religious. Culture of Switzerland can be categorized into various sections for easiness.

Culture of Switzerland:

Language: Switzerland mainly has four national language while most widely spoken is German.17 out of 26 cantons spoke German. Other than German are French, Italian and Rumantsch.French is spoken in the southern part of the country. Four cantons -Geneva, Jura, Neuchatel and Vaud are monolingual in French. While three cantons of Bern, Fribourg and Valais used both French and German.

Ticino and 4 southern valley of Canton Graubunden usually preferred Italian language in their daily life. Rumantsch is a language with Latin roots. Spoken just by 0.5% of the total Swiss population, it is mainly spoken in the canton of Graubunden along with German and Italian.

Religion: Swiss culture like languages show diversity in religion also. Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, Islam, Orthodox Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism are the religion worship by Swiss population. Dominated by Roman Catholicism with the highest percentage of followers, Protestantism, Islam and Orthodox Christianity are the main religions respectively in Switzerland.

Roman Catholicism is associated with the preservation of traditional values while Protestants valued rationality and hard work and believes in wealth also. Switzerland also has Islam worshippers in a large number. City of Geneva has some about 20,000 Muslim inhabitants. There is a mosque in Geneva also inaugurated in 1978.Geneva city also has Russian Orthodox community and the oldest Orthodox church in Switzerland was built in 1866.Switzerland also has a long Buddhism followers. However the number of non-worshippers also comprises a large number of Swiss population.

Art and Architeture: Art, monuments, literature, film, music and museums all comprise architectural culture of Switzerland. Swiss artwork has gained well-known reputation in the world. Switzerland has nearly about 2000 buildings of national importance. Every effort is done to preserve these. Artists of 19th and 20th centuries were Swiss born. Albert Anker, Arnold Boecklin, Ferdinand Hodler, Alberto Giacometti, Paul Klee are some of the famous Swiss personalities in the field of art. With around 1000 museums, Switzerland has one of the great collections of museums in the world. Major Swiss cities have fine art museums as a part of their culture.

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