Olten
About the City
Olten lies at the junction of the north-south Basel-Chiasso and east-west Geneva-St. Gallen railway lines. Moreover, a national Autobahn junction is also in the immediate vicinity. The central location of Olten in Solothurn canton is legendary, and the Olten railway buffet is a popular meeting point since it is equally close to all Swiss. Its good accessibility already made the town a popular location early on for trade and industry.
The town has numerous hotels and restaurants with a sought-after infrastructure for meetings. The historic core of the old town benefits from having been well maintained. Especially popular are the car-free pedestrian zones with very interesting buildings and attractive shopping possibilities, along with active music and an extraordinarily varied cabaret scene. When undertaking a tour through the old town, a visit to Olten’s museums, the nature museum, art museum, historical museum, and home of the cantonal archaeological museum and «Wertpapierwelt», the historical museum of shares and bonds, is well worthwhile. Those with a yearning for the exotic will find Switzerland’s largest Thai temple in nearby Gretzenbach. Finally, on traveling around Olten, visitors will encounter a multitude of interesting fortresses, ruins, castles, churches, and chapels.
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