Valais

Valais

Zermatt

Village in Upper Valais, at 1.608 m, where German is spoken and combustion cars do not circulate. It has views of the Matterhorn, the Hinterdorf with wooden barns, the Bahnhofstrasse, the Matterhorn Museum – Zermatlantis and the climbers' cemetery. From there depart the Gornergrat train, with the Riffelsee on the way, the cable cars of the Matterhorn Glacier Paradise and Schwarzsee, and the Sunnegga funicular, the start of the 5-Seenweg. There is also the Gornerschlucht and the departure point of the Glacier Express.