Urania Sternwarte — Attraction in Zurich

This is a great place, specially for the kids. We went on a grown-up tour, and it was good - we've seen two stars - the Sun and Arctur, and two planets. The telescope doesn't have an amazing resolution or zoom factor but the way it works is amazing. The whole atmosphere there is awesome. It goes a bit slow, would be great to be able to see more - although I have no idea how much more would be technically possible. The view from there is also great - you see all Zurich actually, in the summer it's still light outside, and when it gets darker the lights are on - and that view is amazing as well. Will definitely come back on kids tour - it is on every first Saturday...

Very nice lookout. A brilliant speaker introduced us (in German)to this "Sternwarte"and the history about it. By the way, this telescope are the facility is very good maintained. It was built 117 years ago. Couldn't take any pictures true the telescope 🔭 but i post with my short comment a view picture of the surrounding in the heart 💟 of the city of Zürich. Also one restaurant is situated just below....(6th floor). The reservation is recommended but the visiting hour are seen on the there website:...

The lecture is only in German, which unfortunately they failed to mention. That piece of information is hidden within one of the pages on the site, but not mentioned during the booking process. The person giving the lecture was kind of rude rude when asked about English, not even letting us finish the question (which would have been a request to translate the instructions for operating the telescope). Otherwise the experience looked that it would have been nice, if we hadn't left. Definitely not a...