The Swiss women's national football team, affectionately known as 'La Nati', captivated the nation by advancing to the ...

Ranked eighth in the world, Switzerland are just four places below England and just one place behind Portugal. They even rank ahead of the Netherlands, who sit in 16th place.

The German side, an Alpine-like area just south of Dresden called "Saxon Switzerland" (Sächsische Schweiz), can get pretty crowded at weekends, drawing some 2 million walkers a year at weekends.