• How to reach the Department of Physics and Astronomy in Basel
• Close-by airports: Basel(-Mulhouse-Freiburg), Geneva and Zurich
• Travelling by train in Switzerland (From Basel to Geneva city or Geneva airport takes about 3 hrs)
• How to reach CERN (NIC9 site),

Basel has an airport less than 6 km from the University with many direct connections within Europe via Lufthansa/Swiss, Air France/DELTA, SAS, British Airways, easyJet . Oversea visitiors can connect via Frankfurt, Munich, Paris, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, London, Brussels, Vienna, Madrid .... ... within Star Alliance (United, Lufthansa, SAS, Austrian, ANA, US Air), Skyteam (Air France, KLM, Alitalia, DELTA..), or One World (British Airways, American, Finnair, Iberia..).

Basel has direct train connections to Zurich (includ. airport station, 1 hour), Bern (1 hour), Geneva (including airport station, ca. 3 hours), Frankfurt (3 hours), Paris (5 hours), Strasbourg/Luxembourg/Brussels, Milano, Berlin, Vienna, Amsterdam ...

About Basel: Basel/Basle/Basilea is an old European city, located at the Rhine river at the borders to France and Germany, with a long history and the oldest University of Switzerland (founded in 1460).

For activities in the Departement of Physics and Astronomy see the following links: department, Astronomisches Institut and THE THEORETICAL ASTRO-, NUCLEAR-, AND PARTICLE PHYSICS GROUP. http://quasar.physik.unibas.ch.