Zürich Hauptbahnhof in the context of "ShopVille"

Zurich (German: Zürich; Alemannic German: Züri; see below) is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich. As of the end of 2024, the municipality has a population of 436,551, while the urban area was home to 1.45 million people (2020), while the Zurich metropolitan area had a total population of 2.1 million (2020). Zurich is a hub for railways, roads, and air traffic. Both Zurich Airport and Zurich's main railway station are the largest and busiest in the country.

Evidence of early, sparse settlements in the area dates back more than 6,400 years, indicating human presence prior to the establishment of the town. Permanently settled for over 2,000 years, Zurich was eventually founded by the Romans, who called it Turicum. During the Middle Ages, Zurich gained the independent and privileged status of imperial immediacy and, in 1519, became a primary centre of the Protestant Reformation in Europe under the leadership of Huldrych Zwingli.

The Swiss National Museum (German: Landesmuseum) is a museum in Zurich, Switzerland's largest city, adjacent to Central Station and the Platzspitz park. It is part of the Musée Suisse Group, which is itself affiliated with the Federal Office of Culture.

The Red Arrow (German: Roter Pfeil, French: Flèche rouge, Italian: Freccia rossa) is a class of 12 disparate but similar railcars built in the 1930s by the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB). As built there was a mixture of single and double units, and of diesel and electrically propelled units. They were originally intended for traffic on lines with a low volume of traffic, following the global economic crisis of 1928.

In their original role, the Red Arrows were the victim of their own success, being unable to cope with the increased loadings they brought. Replaced by locomotive hauled trains on their original routes, the SBB capitalised on their popularity by using them on charter and other special services. Later Red Arrows were built specifically for this service.

Eurogate Zurich – originally HB-Südwest (lit. 'Central Station Southwest'), later Stadtraum HB (lit. 'urban space at central station'), and today known as Europaallee Zürich (lit. 'Europe Avenue') – is one of the urban developments on the southwest side of Zurich's Central Station (Zürich Hauptbahnhof, or Zürich HB) in Switzerland.

Located in the city's District 4, near the city centre, Europaallee was completed in 2020 and includes shops, restaurants, offices (e.g. Google), apartments, the college of education (Pädagogische Hochschule Zürich) and a hotel. Europaallee is mostly pedestrianized and features two rows of Ginkgo trees. It also includes a fountain nicknamed 'Europuddle'. The site is connected to the urban developments north of the railway tracks via a pedestrian bridge (Negrellisteg (de)) and the western underpass of Central Station. It is linked with Bahnhofplatz, the square in front of Central Station, via Postbrücke over the river Sihl.

Zurich HB SZU railway station (German: Bahnhof Zürich HB SZU) is a subsurface railway station situated below Bahnhofplatz in the city centre of Zurich, Switzerland. The station is physically connected to Zürich HB, Zurich Main Station, via the underground ShopVille mall. It is the terminus of the standard gauge Sihltal and Uetliberg railway lines of the Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn (SZU).

Platzspitz, officially Platzpromenade, is a park in District 1 of the city of Zurich, Switzerland. It is located next to the Swiss National Museum (Landesmuseum) and Central Station and bound by the rivers Sihl to the west and Limmat to the east. The confluence of these rivers lies just north of the park.

Several tall Platanus trees grow in the park, which are some of Zurich's oldest trees. The park also features a statue of the Swiss poet Salomon Gessner and a gazebo. At Platzspitz's northern end, two bridges link the park with the neighbouring quarters and the Dynamo youth center. The park shares a landing stage with the Landesmuseum, served by the ZSG Limmat river cruise.