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Zermatt (German: [tsɛʁˈmat] ⓘ, Swiss Standard German:) is a municipality in the district of Visp in the German-speaking section of the canton of Valais in Switzerland.It has a year-round population of about 5,800 and is classified as a town by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO).
Zmutt (also spelled Z'mutt, Z'Mutt, Z-Mutt) is a small village in the municipality of Zermatt, Valais, Switzerland, situated at 1936 m in the Zmutt Valley (Zmuttal) west of Zermatt. The village chapel is dedicated to Saint Catherine of Alexandria , patroness of the Valais.
Zermatt (1,600 m), with approx. 5,600 inhabitants, is the largest and highest town in the valley. St. Niklaus follows with 2,400 inhabitants. Between them are located the smaller villages of Täsch and Randa. The villages of Grächen, Embd and Törbel are located above the valley. Stalden, located at the end of the valley, is the lowest village ...
It links the resort village of Zermatt, situated at 1,604 m (5,262 ft) above mean sea level, to the summit of the Gornergrat. The Gornergrat railway station is situated at an altitude of 3,089 m (10,135 ft), which makes the Gornergrat Railway the second highest railway in Europe after the Jungfrau , and the highest open-air railway of the ...
The Zermatt–Sunnegga Funicular, also known as the Standseilbahn Zermatt–Sunnegga, or short SunneggaExpress, is an underground funicular railway in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. It links a lower station in the resort village of Zermatt , with an upper station at 2293 m Sunnegga , 698 m above, and forms the first link in the route to the ...
Randa is a municipality in the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.It is located between the Weisshorn and the Dom in the Matter Valley.The village is accessible by road and rail, and it has a campsite which offers a taxi service to Zermatt, a car-free town.
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The Matterhorn Museum in Zermatt is a cultural-natural museum whose main theme is the Matterhorn. The museum is in the form of a reconstituted mountain village consisting of 14 houses (church, hotel, huts and granaries), and relates the history and development of tourism in the Zermatt area, including the story of the first ascent of the ...