Bern is the other federal institution and ministry, seat of the government (departments) federal like the National Bank. Also it is the international seat of Unión Postal Universal (UPU) that is one of the specialized agencies of the United Nations. In addition she is host of services public like the Swiss Post office (the state postal office) and of the Swiss Federal Railroads. The city also has a small international airport in the locality of Belp in the south of the capital. Although Zurich is the greater railway center of the country, Bern has direct links to the main cities of Switzerland and European cities like Paris, Berlin, Barcelona and Milan.

History
The city is a foundation of the Dukes of Zaringia of century XII. Their foundations were seated in a earth language surrounded in three by their sides by the Aar river. Nevertheless, the first colonization of terruño goes back to the preRoman time.
The city became a center of the commerce in the central Plain and, by subsequent, it was acquiring more and more to be able politician and military man who used to put under his control several put under territories. He was one of the most powerful members of the Old Helvetic Confederation.
In 1798 the French invasion ended the bernesa hegemony, but Bern was able to hold a position privileged within the Confederation. In 1848 it was designated capital permanent of the new Swiss federal State.
Around the name of the city all a series of founding legend arose. It can be that it derives from Brenodor, the name of an old establishment celta that was in the site. Nevertheless, the most popular legend supposedly maintains that topónimo “Bern” has to do with the German name for bear (Bär), the first animal hunted by the founders of the city, Duke Bertoldo V of Zaringia, when they went to hunt in the surroundings of the city. The bear was associated for a long time with the city that from century XV has a pit of bears.