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Strandbad Mythenquai
Mythenquai 95, 8002 Zürich
Lakeside bathing beach with sandy shore, wooden pavilion, and open-water swimming since nineteen twenty-two.
This guide to Strandbad Mythenquai in Zurich opens on launch day, June seventeenth nineteen twenty-two, when city officials built a raw pine fence to the waterline to keep male and female bathers apart. It follows the crush of thousands who showed up for a beach built for six hundred, and traces how a barrier meant to enforce Swiss decency law came apart plank by plank in bathers' hands within days. Stand along today's open shoreline and listen for where that fence used to run.
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