This Spectacular New Hotel in Zurich Is Opening Just in Time for the Holidays

Christmas Eve 1838 in Zurich. Johannes Baur, a young baker from Vorarlberg, Austria, opens the Hotel Baur on Paradeplatz, the first grand hotel in the Swiss capital. One hundred and eighty-five years, numerous famous guests (including literary legend Charles Dickens) and several changes of ownership later, the Zurich icon now shines in new splendor, following a comprehensive renovation as part of the luxurious Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group. Just in time for the holidays, like it did so many years ago.