Finding photographic ‘true love’ in Switzerland

Switzerland is clearly very photogenic, but where are the real photo hotspots? To celebrate Swiss National Day, swissinfo.ch mined more than 22,000 images on Flickr – from urban scenes to chocolate-box landscapes – and publishes here the most popular ones. We analysed every picture on image-hosting website Flickr that had been geotagged within Switzerland since January 2014. The map below pinpoints every photo – note several dots in the middle of Lake Geneva! Unsurprisingly, more photos were taken in densely populated areas. Notable exceptions include Zermatt, near the Italian border, which is a favourite vantage point for getting a shot of that symbol of Switzerland, the Matterhorn.  The ten municipalities (Switzerland is divided into almost 2,300 municipalities) where the most photos were taken are shown in the following map. However, the “most favourited” by Flickr users in these places show very different and sometimes surprising subjects. ...