Yes, there are people who speak French.
Information, cashiers and some passengers in the trains to Basel.
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Originally Posted by mousquet
it just looks a bit too humble compared to our visually crazier and richer historic standards.
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I don't think so, take in mind that Bern is not a big city, it has less than 500,000 inhabitants in its metropolitan area.
Bern might be the capital of Switzerland but Switzerland is a decentralised country, lots of things are managed at local level.
The city doesn't have the size and the power of Zurich and Geneva. It felt quite provincial but the city impressed me, it feels larger than cities of similar size in France.
I could divide the city center in two part.
One is the functionning city center around the train station with lot of offices, chain stores... (pictures 1 to 21 and 35 to the end).
The second part is mostly touristy with souvenir shops, art gallery and traditional craftsman shops (pictures 22 to 34)