The nineteenth century is rich in explorations of experiences in the foreign lands, which were not least experiences of nature by city dwellers. Whether Mendelssohn's “Hebrides” or Nietzsche's “Zarathustra”, Byron's “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, which inspired Berlioz to write “Harold en Italie”, or Liszt's “Annés de pèlerinage”, the reference to what had never been seen before and to nature was unmistakeable. Travel and recognition, movement and knowledge had become one. Switzerland as a pioneer of “tourism”, has benefited from this just as did those who never tired of describing it as a multifaceted paradise with occasional hellish crashes. Oliver Schnyder shows on the piano the worlds in which Felix Mendelssohn and Franz Liszt, who were repeatedly inspired by Switzerland, moved, and Alain Claude Sulzer tells of the discoveries that could be made in Switzerland.