Unlike in the United States where buildings are periodically
torn down to make way for the new, the buildings in Europe 
are preserved on the outside even though the insides have 
been gutted and modernized. (For instance, our hotel in 
Salzburg was 600 years old.)  Many of the old city centers 
in Europe look as they did hundreds of years ago.  Zurich 
is no exception.  Most of the structures along the river 
were standing during Grandma’s day just as they are now.

Paula