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Schaffhausen [1] is a city in north-eastern Switzerland on the river Rhine, next to the German border.

Contents 1 Understand 2 Get in 2.1 By train 3 Get around 4 See 5 Do 6 Buy 7 Eat 8 Drink 9 Sleep 10 Get out

Understand

Schaffhausen is an old city that become a member of the Swiss Confederation in 1501. In 1944 Schaffhausen was accidentally bombed by United States airforce that mistook neutral Swiss town for Germany. Current population of Schaffhausen is about 33700.

Get in

By train

From Zurich. - Getting to Schaffhausen is a little tricky, as one has to cross German territory. If you wouldn't cross the German border, it's also possible to take the train over Winterthur.

Get around

Local buses, on foot in the centre.

See

• walk in the old city and admire the renaissance buildings

• visit the Munot fortress

• Rhine Falls, the largest waterfalls in Europe. Walk or take the bus there. Visitors can see the waterfalls up close from several viewing platforms, and can also take a boat up to an outcropping in the middle of the falls.

Do

Buy

Eat

Drink

• the bar/club Orient is a nice club on weekends (http://www.orient.ch/)

Sleep

Get out

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