Grüezi. Bonjour. Buongiorno. Allegra

No place inspires exploration quite like this tiny country whose four languages and cultural diversity create curiosity and beg discovery. The French-speaking wedge - Suisse Romande - embraces Switzerland’s western fringe from Geneva and Lake Geneva to the remote Jura in the north and Valais in the east. Moving east into ‘middle-ground’ Mittelland with Swiss capital Bern as its heart, Germanic Switzerland kicks in and makes itself heard across the Alps in the country’s main outdoor-action playgrounds: the Bernese Oberland, Graubünden and the Engadine Valley. Then there is Ticino, a charismatic pocket of Italian-speaking passion and exuberance.