Luterbach · Canton of Solothurn · Switzerland
The campus is the seat of CIFA. Its buildings stand within a park on the edge of Luterbach, between Solothurn and the river Aare, surrounded by the Wylihof golf course.
The campus is the whole estate. Three houses, three purposes.
Seat of the Confederation · Wylihof 7
The main building with its two corner towers, the seat of CIFA and its Secretariat General. In front of it the baroque garden with fountain and box parterre — and the row of flags of the countries represented.
Guest house of the Parkforum
The house in the park, with its glazed veranda and a view across the lawn. Guests of the Confederation stay here.
Guest house of the Parkforum · Wylihof 9
The timber-framed building of the old estate farm under its deep hipped roof — with guest rooms for visitors of the Confederation.
The Parkforum Wylihof belongs to the campus: the seminar hotel of CIFA, with the garden hall and salons for courses, meetings and the General Assembly, and guest rooms in the villa and the Blumensteinhaus. Whoever visits the Confederation stays on the campus.
The campus lies a few minutes from the town of Solothurn, between the Aare and the foot of the Jura. It does not have a neighbourhood — it has a frame: more than a hundred hectares of golf course enclose the estate on every side. What you enter here is not a house with surroundings but one continuous ground. Manor, villa, Blumensteinhaus, nursery, orchards, park and fairways all carry the same name: Wylihof.
