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Visit Z&rich - Attractions in Z&rich: Apr 29, 7:15am 1 review •http://www.visitzurich.org/attraction...; See Zürich and die, like Jimmy did
I'm having a brief stopover in Zürich, the Swiss city usually named in surveys as having the best quality of life in the world (the official rebuttal to tiresome Americans forever boasting about being "the world's best.")
Of course, you could argue that Zürich should have been able to get its quality of life right by now, after nearly 2,000 years. But it doesn't always work - Beijing is still working on it.
Strange name Zürich - no one knows its origin or meaning. It was probably Celtic but was first mentioned in writing in the second century as Statio Turicensis (Turicum tax station, for the Romans).
By the 6th century it was already established as Ziurichi, it's origins lost in the mists of the eerily serene and calm Lake Zürich [right].
We Celts have a later important link with Zürich anyway. Ireland's great genius, the novelist James Joyce, died in Zürich in 1941 and is buried at Fluntern cemetery.
We eccentric intra-extraverts also have a link - Carl Jung lived and died in Zürich, and the city isn't a-Freud to honor his memory.
Or, as Joyce himself once observed about his daughter Lucia, "she's a girl who's yung and easily freudened."