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+41 61 267 81 81

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SundayClosed
Monday8am - 12pm, 1:30pm - 5pm
Tuesday8am - 12pm, 1:30pm - 5pm
Wednesday8am - 12pm, 1:30pm - 5pm
Thursday8am - 12pm, 1:30pm - 5pm
Friday8am - 12pm, 1:30pm - 5pm
SaturdayClosed


The Basel Town Hall is a 500-year-old building dominating the Marktplatz in Basel, Switzerland. The Town Hall houses the meetings of the Cantonal Parliament as well as the Cantonal Government of the canton of Basel-Stadt. The Great Council Chamber at one time featured a series of frescoes painted in 1522 by Hans Holbein the Younger, which have been lost. Fragments of the work as well as some of the initial drawings are kept in the Kunstmuseum.Rathaus literally means council house while the term Roothus in the local Basel German dialect means both council house but also sounds like red house, a pun with reference to the red sandstone facade of the building.
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