Zurich is the capital of the corner with he himself name. The city is located in the effusion of the Limmat river of the Lake of Zurich. With its 360,000 inhabitants (1.080.000 hab. with the agglomeration) it is the city more populated with Switzerland.
Zurich is the financial and economic capital of Switzerland. It is the seat of the Credit Suisse and the UBS, both greater banks of the country, and other numerous private banks. Zurich is also the center of just established Metropolitan Zurich Region to urge the empresariado one to enjoy the advantages of the Swiss city the more favorable economic climate.
But Zurich is not only the city of the banks, also it is cultural Mecca, and in international soundings she is always one of the cities that appear between first in the ranking of the most desirable cities of the world living. Mainly in centuries XIX and XX many writers have settled down themselves, famous artists and composers in Zurich. The dadaísta movement was born in the Cabinet Voltaire of Zurich in 1916. Today it can be conceited to have many museums, theaters and concert halls, but also about 500 bars, nocturnal clubs and discotecas. Su Bahnhofstrasse she is one of the commercial streets more known in Switzerland.
The “Neue Zürcher Zeitung” (“New Zuriquense Newspaper”) is one of the most prestigious metropolitan newspapers of the country. The first edition was printed in 1780 and is one of newspapers of German language older than still it exists.
In Zurich are two of the more famous academic institutions of the country: the University of Zurich and the prestigious Federal Polytechnical School of Zurich (EPFZ). Between 1975 and 2002 they less left the rooms of the EPFZ nothing than seven Nobel prizes.
The airport of Kloten near Zurich is greatest of the country. Zurich is also an important railway axis, and, with respect to the transports public, it says that it is the city with the best public transport service of the world.

History
Turicum, the Latin name of Zurich, was in the Antiquity a customs position and a strong Roman in the left border of the Limmat. Later, the city expanded to the other side of the river.
During the Average Age one became an economic center, cultural and religious more and more. Throughout century XIII the city was able to monopolize always more powers of self-government in spite of belonging to the Sacred Germanic Roman Empire.
In 1351 it joined the Swiss Confederation where soon leader Bern and Lucerna managed to settle down itself along with like partner.
Zurich always was in the vanguard of new developments: he led the protestant forces in the Reformation in century XVI, their liberal politicians carried out a key paper in the establishment of the modern federal State in 1848, and their industralists were the angular stone of the industrial revolution in Switzerland in century XIX.