Luxury escorts in Solothurn

Solothurn is Switzerland's most beautiful baroque town and the most complete: two centuries as the seat of the French ambassadors left it with Italianate churches, French manners and a old town so intact it feels curated. The town's obsession with the number eleven — eleven churches, eleven fountains, eleven towers, a clock face that counts to eleven — is retold over every dinner, and the St. Ursus cathedral's staircase remains the grandest entrance in the Mittelland.

It is a connoisseur's stop rather than a destination the crowds have found, and that is its value to us. The old town's kitchens are ambitious beyond the town's size, the Aare terraces fill on summer evenings with a local crowd that has nowhere better to be, and the Weissenstein ridge above — the Jura's grandstand — gives a sunset view across the whole Alpine chain from Säntis to Mont Blanc. Our companions here speak German, French and English, matching the town's twin heritage; Bern, Basel and Zurich are each under an hour, which lets a Solothurn evening sit inside any Mittelland itinerary.