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Geneva's Librairie Bernard Letu (LetuBooks) specialises in art and design books through a catalogue that includes jewellery and watchmaking titles. Online orders continue while the physical shop is reworked as L'Escarboucle, the bookshop of L'ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts. Books also appear among the antiques and other goods at Plainpalais Market, an open-air market in Geneva. At Zermatt station, Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn Shop offers railway books and model trains alongside memorabilia associated with the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn.
Basel
Bergli Books is a Basel-based publisher and bookshop, at Mittlere Strasse 4, specialising in books about Swiss life and culture, from cookbooks to children's titles. Its children's book Swisstory received the International Crystal Kite Award from the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.
Best for Books about switzerland
Affoltern, Bern
The Emmental Cheese Factory in Affoltern im Emmental remains open to visitors after its commercial Emmentaler AOP production ended in June 2025. The shop sells Emmentaler and other Swiss cheeses, and there is still a restaurant at the site. The Königsweg experience explains the regional dairy tradition, and groups can still book a two-hour session making Stöckli cheese by hand in the 1741 building.
Best for Swiss cheese shopping and Emmentaler interpretation in Affoltern
The Emmental Cheese Factory in Affoltern remains a place to buy cheese and learn about the surrounding dairy tradition. Its purpose has changed since commercial Emmentaler AOP production at the show dairy ended in June 2025. The shop and restaurant continued operating, so that closure should not be mistaken for the whole visitor site closing.
The cheese shop offers Emmentaler alongside a wider Swiss selection, with cheeses of different styles available to compare. That makes the visit useful for choosing something to take home rather than assuming every wheel was made here. The restaurant offers another way to spend time at the site without following a production tour.
The Königsweg visitor experience explains the story of Emmentaler, while former production equipment forms part of the site's changing presentation. Anyone planning a visit specifically to watch commercial cheesemaking should account for the end of that activity. Cheese is still made here on a small scale. The Stöckli session runs for two hours by advance booking, led by a cheesemaker in the building dating from 1741. The group price is CHF 530 for up to 20 people and includes one wheel of 8 to 10 kg, with a second wheel at CHF 215. The wheels mature for four months and are then cut, vacuum-packed and posted within Switzerland only, so nothing goes home on the day.
Old Town (Rue Jean Calvin)
Librairie Bernard Letu, trading online as LetuBooks, is a Geneva art bookshop at Rue Jean Calvin 2ter specialising in fine arts, photography, jewellery, fashion, architecture and watchmaking titles. The physical shop is being reworked to reopen as L'Escarboucle, the bookshop of L'ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts, while orders continue online.
Best for Art, jewellery and design books
Plainpalais, Geneva
Geneva's largest open-air market held Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday. Everything from antiques and books to fresh produce and Swiss crafts. The Sunday flea market is for vintage finds.
Best for Everything from antiques and books to fresh produce and Swiss crafts
Promenade 50, 3780 Gstaad / Gstaad / Switzerland
This Gstaad boutique offers hot stamping and product personalisation, with appointments bookable through the store page. The service is particularly relevant for small leather goods, luggage tags and selected travel pieces.
Best for Leather goods with in-store personalization
St. Gallen
Shop at the UNESCO World Heritage Abbey Library — one of the world's most beautiful libraries — for manuscript reproductions, art books, and scholarly publications.
Best for Manuscript reproductions, art books, and scholarly publications
Zermatt Bahnhof, Zermatt
Railway shop at Zermatt station selling memorabilia from one of Switzerland's most scenic train lines. Model trains, books, and Alpine railway souvenirs.
Best for Books, models and souvenirs connected to the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn
Bahnhofstrasse, Zurich
Orell Füssli's Kramhof bookshop in Zurich has an English-language section on the third floor at Füsslistrasse 4. Readers can browse English literature there and ask the team for help with an order. The bookseller also offers an online English catalogue, with new releases and reading selections available to explore before visiting.
Best for English-language books at Zurich's Kramhof bookshop
Zurich
Vastela Books is an independent secondhand English-language bookshop at Birmensdorferstrasse 255 in Zurich, selling books and audiobooks and running a donations programme, subscription swaps and community events such as a bookclub and writing groups.
Best for Secondhand english books and events
Disentis/Mustér, Graubünden
The gatehouse shop of the Benedictine abbey sells what the monks produce on site, including bread and Brother Gerhard's nut cake from the monastery bakery, quince liqueur, black monastery mustard, monastery yogurt and monastery beer. Its shelves also carry produce from the cloister garden along with books and devotional items from the community.
Best for Monastery-made baked goods, quince liqueur and mustard
Chauderon & Dorigny, Lausanne, Switzerland
Run as a self-managed cooperative rather than a franchise, Basta! stocks humanities and social-science titles across two Lausanne locations and regularly hosts author talks and book launches. Its alternative, collectively run structure has kept it outside the ownership of any larger book-retail group.
Best for Humanities and social-science books
Bern (and zurich) / Switzerland
Pelikamo is a Zurich-based menswear label whose tailoring studio recently relocated to Dreikönigsstrasse 21, where clients can book fittings alongside browsing the brand's ready-to-wear collection online. The Shopify storefront covers everything from suits and shirts to shoes and travel gear, all designed in Zurich and produced in Europe.
Best for Menswear, tailoring, made-to-measure
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