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Traveling by plane
If you arrive by plane (Airports in Zürich, Geneva, Basel or Berne) you can catch trains to Fribourg. It's about 2 hours from Zürich and Basel airport, 1.5 h from Geneva and less than 1 hour from Berne (small airport!). Train connections can be looked up here.
Arriving by car
Arriving by train in Fribourg
Note: There is a city in Southern Germany with the name 'Freiburg'. When you buy your train ticket make sure you travel to the right destination.
When you arrive at the train station (indicated by the green arrow), you can walk (about 15 minutes), take a bus or a taxi. The Biology Departement (red arrow) is in Pérolles, the part of the University, which is most to the south of the city of Fribourg. To walk, follow the red dots from the green to the red arrow.
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In detail
If you leave the main exit from the rail way station and you have
the station in your back, the Boulevard de Pérolles is the big
street half right. Follow the Boulevard de Pérolles for about 1
kilometer, until you come to a roundabout (circular traffic
intersection). There, turn to the right (a little bit less than a right
angle) (following the signs in the middle of the roundabout
saying: "Université, Naturwissenschaften" and
"Musée de histoire naturelle"). The street is called Chemin de
Musée, but the street sign is not obvious. Follow this street,
pass the parking areas, enter the second (older) tall building (Nr. 6)
on the right hand side. It has a sign to the 'Natural History Museum'.
Go straight ahead through the 'Geology and Paleontology section', carry
on along the corridor through the 'Developmental and Cell Biology'
section. At the very end of the corridor (before the exit door, marked
red on the map) turn right. Your are now in the Section Ecology and
Evolution.
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