Castello Fénis

The castle is located in the town of Fénis in Aosta Valley region, at about 13 km from the city of Aosta. The keep has a pentagonal layout, with towers at the corners. It is surrounded by a double boundary wall with battlements and by a series of watchtowers linked by a walkway. Detail of a fresco of a Wise Man. Walls of the courtyard's balconies.Despite his impressive defensive structure, the castle is situated at the top of a small knoll and not of a promontory or another inaccessible and easily defensible place. In fact it was not built for military purposes, but to serve as a prestigious residence for the Challant family. The inner courtyard, at the centre of the keep, shows a semi-circular stone staircase and wood balconies. At the top of the staicase a 15th century fresco features Saint George killing the dragon, while the walls of the balconies are decorated with images of sages and prophets and proverbs in ancient French. The frescoes are attributed to a painter from the school of Jaquerio.

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Castello Fénis
Fènis, Aosta, Itália

Preco: 5€
Horario: 9h-19h
Encerra: 25 Dezembro, 1 Janeiro

Castello di Verres

Verrès castle has a large tower; its dimensions being cubical with all sides measuring 30 meters, which acted duly as a defense and housing accommodations for its inhabitants. The tower is 3 stories tall[1] and is accessible by a large grand staircase.It stands above the river Evançon on the rocky cliffside which also overlooks the commune that lies below it on one side and the castle courtyard on the other. Access to the castle could be limited after employing the drawbridge. The castle's features include the grand staircase, stone vaults, several large fireplaces, and decorative pillars.

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Castello di Verres
Verres, Aosta, Itália

Preco: 3€
Horario: 9h-19h

Castello di Issogne

Issogne Castle is a castle in Issogne in the Aosta region of northwestern Italy. It is one of the most famous manors of the Val d'Aosta and is located on the right bank of the Dora Baltea at the centre of the inhabited area of Issogne. As a seigniorial residence of the Renaissance, the Castle has quite a different look from that of the austere Castle of Verrès, which is located on the opposite bank of the river.

Issogne Castle is most noteworthy for its fountain in the form of pomegranate tree and its highly decorated portico, a rare example of medieval Alpine painting, with its frescoed cycle of scenes of daily life from the late Middle Ages.

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Castello di Issogne
Issogne, Aosta, Itália

Preco: 5€
Horario: 9h-19h

Cascata di Lillaz

Teatro Romano

This theatre was built in the Augustinian period and once occupied a quarter of the standard urban plan of the Roman colony. The southern façade, built of the local stone, puddinga, is still standing. Originally, it had a stage 45 metres long and 7 metres deep and room for 4,000 spectators. The theatre measures 22 metres high and has arcades with 3 levels of windows. In Roman times an arcade linked the theatre to the amphitheatre. Today this is incorporated into a wall of a 13th Century convent, but retains the curvilinear structure and eight of the 60 original arcades.

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Via Porta Praetoria, Aosta, Itália

Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta

Aosta Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church in Aosta, in north-west Italy, built in the 4th century. In the 11th century the Palaeo-Christian structure was replaced by a new edifice dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The architecture of the cathedral was modified during the 15th and 16th century. The present façade, in neoclassical style, was built between 1846 and 1848. The remaining structure of the Romanesque period are two clock-towers and the crypt. To the same era belongs also the remaining part of a fresco cycle on the church ceiling (Ottonian art).

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Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta
Aosta, Itália

Gornergratbahn

The Gornergratbahn (GGB) is a nine-kilometre metre-gauge mountain rack railway, with Abt rack system. It leads from Zermatt, Switzerland (1,604 m/5,262 ft), up to the Gornergrat (3,089 m/10,135 ft). The Gornergrat is a starting point for many hikes, as it lies surrounded by 29 peaks rising above 4,000 m (13,123 ft) in the Alps and several glaciers, including the Gorner Glacier (which is billed as the second longest glacier in the Alps). At the end of the line on Gornergrat, the Matterhorn is visible on a clear day. It is also a popular skiing area. The Gornergrat (English: Gorner Ridge) is a ridge of the Pennine Alps, Switzerland, overlooking the Gorner Glacier to the south. It is located about three kilometers east of Zermatt in the Swiss canton of Valais. The Gornergrat is located between the Gornergletscher and Findelgletscher and offers a view of more than 20 four thousand metre peaks, whose highest are Monte Rosa, Lyskamm, Matterhorn, Dom and Weisshorn.

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Gornergratbahn
Zermatt, Valais, Suiça
Telf: +41 (0)27 927 77 77 | E-mail: info@gornergrat.ch
Preco: 75€
Horario: Timetable

Château Tourbillon

The Tourbillon castle (Château de Tourbillon) is a castle in Sion in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It is situated on a hill and faces the Basilique de Valère, located on the opposite hill. The castle is currently in a state of ruins following a fire in 1788. Tourbillon castle was built in at the end of the 13th century, sometime between 1290 and 1308, by the bishop Boniface de Challant. A large part of the castle was first destroyed by the Patriots of the Valais in 1416. The castle was then rebuilt in 1477 by Gullaume VI of Raron, wanting to build a chapel and an exterior wall built with battlements. However, in 1788, a gigantic fire reduced the castle to ashes; this became its ruin.

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Château Tourbillon
Sion, Suiça
Telf: +41 (0)- +41 (0)27 606 46 70 |
Horario: 10h-18h (Abril a Novembro)
Encerra: Segundas

Les Pyramides d'Euseigne

Gletscherschlucht

Starting at the Restaurant Gletscherschlucht, elevated trails and bridges lead along the 100m deep into the socalled Gletscherschlucht. Gletscherschlucht means literally translated glacier gorge, not exactly a name, more a description. The water from the glaciers formed this narrow gorge. At the entrance to the gorge is the Kristallmuseum (crystal museum), which exhibits typical minerals of the Bernese Alps. This place has a certain fame because of the glacier behind the gorge. The glacier is rapidly melting, a fact which is interpreted as a circumstantial evidence for the global warming. A strange thing is the formation of a so called Gletschersee on top of the lower glacier. The lake is formed by melting water collecting in a depression on top of the ice. It has no drainage, but as soon as the water finds a way through a crack, the crack is very fast widened by the flowing water and the water flows in a great flood through the channel at the bottom of the glacier, down the Gletscherschlucht to Grindelwald. This flood could potentially destoy anything in its way and the lake is becoming bigger and bigger every year. To avoid this danger, the city of Grindelwald constructed a tunnel which is intended to drain melting water during the spring and hence impede the formation of a lake.

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Gletscherschlucht
Grindelwald, Berner Oberland, Suiça
Telf: +41-33-8541212 |
Preco: 7CHF
Horario: Summer(8h-17h)
Encerra: Weather depending, Winter

Fondue

Fondue é um prato de origem Suíça, normalmente à base de queijo aquecido sobre uma lamparina, também conhecida como espiriteira ou rechaud, ou outra fonte de calor pouco intenso e do qual as pessoas se servem diretamente. Consiste basicamente em uma mistura de queijos (normalmente dos queijos Gruyère e Emmental) fundidos com vinho (ou, como na receita original, a Kirschwasser alemã), que vai à mesa acompanhada de pedaços de pão, batatas e cenouras. Esses acompanhamentos devem ser mergulhados na fondue com um garfo especial antes de serem consumidos.

Ingredientes:
200 g de queijo gruyére
200 g de queijo emmental
2 chávenas de vinho branco seco
1 dente de alho descascado
1 colher (sopa) de maisena
2 colheres (sopa) de Kirch ou vodka (opcional)
pimenta-do-reino branca
noz moscada
cubos de tostas ou pão duro, pickes, Batatas cozidas, presunto (para acompanhar)


Preparação:
Realizar um bom fondue é uma coisa muito simples. O segredo está em escolher um queijo de boa qualidade. A maneira de cortar ou ralar o queijo não tem nenhuma importância. Mas a qualidade do vinho é muito importante! Considere sempre 1 copo de queijo cortado ou ralado (150 g) por pessoa. Coloque o queijo na panela, junte o vinho, cozinhe em lume forte, mexendo sempre. Depois, coloque a panela sobre o réchaud, na mesa, e deixe cozinhando em lume brando durante a refeição. Mexa de vez em quando.

Rale os queijos no ralo grosso e reserve. Esfregue o dente de alho na parte interna da panela escolhida para se preparar o fondue. (recomenda-se a panela apropriada para levar o fondue a ferver à mesa) Separe 4 colheres (sopa) do vinho e coloque o restante na panela. Acrescente os queijos em lume brando, mexendo a mistura sem parar, até que os queijos estejam totalmente derretidos no vinho. Misture a maisena com o vinho branco reservado e despeje na panela. Continue mexendo por 1 minuto até engrossar. Tempere com pimenta-do-reino e uma pitada de noz moscada. Despeje o Kirch e leve a panela ao aparelho de fondue. Sirva acompanhado de cubos de tostas ou pão duro.

Conselhos úteis:
Não modifique muito a proporção de vinho. Se o fondue está muito espesso, acrescente um pouco de vinho. Se está muito líquido, engrosse com maisena dissolvida em brandy (ou vinho). Antes de colocar o queijo na panela, esfregue por dentro da mesma um ou dois dentes de alho cortados, para untar. O fondue tradicional come-se com pão, mas pode-se comer também com: salsichas cortadas, pedaços de peixe cozido, camarões, almôndegas pequenas, cogumelos em conserva. Para acompanhar, pode servir uma salada verde e vinho branco seco ou rosé.

Thun

Thun (French: Thoune) is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located where the River Aar flows out of Lake Thun (Thunersee), 30 km south of Bern.

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Thun
Berner Oberland, Suiça

Brienzersee

Lake Brienz (German: Brienzersee) is a lake just north of the Alps, in the Canton of Berne in Switzerland. The lake took its name from the village Brienz on its northern shore. Interlaken and the villages Matten and Unterseen lie to the south west of the lake. The shores are steep, and there is almost no shallow water in the entire lake. The character of the lake is different to its neighbour, that of Thun. Its chief affluent is the Lütschine (flowing from the valleys of Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen).

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Interlaken, Suiça

Unterer Grindelwaldgletschertrail

O Unterer Grindelwaldgletscher é o maior glaciar de Grindelwald nos alpes Bearneses. Este percurso leva-nos facilmente a um magnifico ponto de vista. Neste percurso podemos observar: Wetterhorn(3693m), Eiger(3970m), Gross Fiescherhorn(4049m)

LUT 20 ( 5,6Km | +-370m | 3h00 | Ida-e-volta ) Dificuldade: Fácil (I) Cota máxima:
	0h00	1391m	Pfinstegg
			Do alto da estação Pfinstegbahn dirigir para a direita através da floresta. Á nossa frente a parede norte do Eiger (3970m). Após passar por uma cascata chegamos a
	0h15	1420m	Cruzamento Marmorbruch
			Á direita caminho desce para Marmorbruch e Gletscherschlutz. Seguir em frente em subida moderada ao longo do desfiladeiro. Caminho torna-se cada vez mais exposto. Após curva pronunciada com magnífica vista do glaciar, caminho sobe pronunciadamente até chegarmos a
	1h45	1770m	Bäregg-Haus
			Voltar pelo mesmo caminho de volta a
	3h00	1391m	Pfinstegg
Alpes Bearneses, Grindelwald, Lutschental, Suiça Acesso: Teleférico Pfinstegbahn desde Grindelwald.
Atenção:Fácil, Exposto, não fazer com neve

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Rösti

Receita tradicional Suiça, serve para acompanhamento a uma série de pratos. Esta receita é óptima também para aproveitar restos de batatas cozidas e frias. Presta-se a variações quase infinitas de produtos adicionais cebola, queijo, bacon, cogumelos.

Ingredientes:
5 batatas
2 colheres de sopa de manteiga
sal
pimenta
noz-moscada

Confecção:
Dê uma fervura às batatas com a casca. Descasque-as e deixe arrefecer. Derreta um pouco de manteiga numa frigideira de ferro e rale as batatas directamente para dentro, através de um ralador com furos largos. Alise a superfície. Tempere com sal, pimenta e noz-moscada. Deixe ganhar crosta do outro lado. Sirva quente.

Schneider Weiss

Foi a minha cerveja de eleição na Suiça. Como sempre saborosa ... um toque acentuadamente doce no final.

Tipo: Weissbier
Origem: Private Weissbierbrauerei G. Schneider & Sohn, Munique - Baviera, Alemanha
Características: 5,4º

With its amber-mahogany coloring and streaked with fine top-fermented yeast, this beer has a fine, persistent head that adheres well to the glass. It is pleasantly fruity with a typical top-fermented smell, an aroma of clove and nutmeg apple tantalizes the nose. On the tongue it is fresh, clean, full-bodied, harmonious and well-balanced. It finishes with a light, delicate taste of bitters leaving behind a sour impression.

História: G. Schneider & Sohn is a Bavarian brewery company founded in 1872 by Georg Schneider I and his son of the same name, after they acquired the Weisses Brauhaus in Munich, the oldest wheat beer brewery in the city. In 1927 the owners, who to this day are descendants of Georg Schneider I, expanded their brewing operations into Kelheim and Straubing. After the breweries in Munich were destroyed in 1944 by bombing, the entire production was relocated to Kelheim.

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Schilthorn

It takes you just 32 minutes by Cable car to reach the summit of the 2970 m high Schilthorn. Enjoy the beautiful view of Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau (UNESCO World Heritage) and on more than 200 other summits. Have a rich breakfast or a delicious meal at the world's first revolving restaurant Piz Gloria and follow the tracks of James Bond: in the Touristorama we will show you extracts of the 007 Movie "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", which was filmed at the Schilthorn. Or simply enjoy the spectacular view from our big terrace!

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Schilthorn
Höheweg 2, CH-3800 Interlaken
Telf: +41 33 82 60 007 | E-mail: info@schilthorn.ch
Preco: 95 CHF (Stechelberg ida-e-volta)
Horario: 8h-16h

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Trümmelbachfälle

The Trummelbach Falls (In German: Trümmelbachfälle) in Switzerland are a series of ten glacier-waterfalls inside the mountain made accessible by tunnel-lift and illuminated. The Trummelbach alone drains the mighty glacier defiles of Eiger (3970 m), Mönch (4099 m) and Jungfrau (4158 m) and carries 20,200 tons of boulder detritus per year. Its drainage area is 24 km², half of it covered by snow and glaciers. The falls carry up to 20,000 liters of water per second.

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Trümmelbachfälle
3822 Lauterbrunnen
Telf: +41 33 855 32 32 | E-mail: info@truemmelbach.ch
Preco: 11 CHF
Horario: 9h-17h
Encerra: Dezembro a Março

Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch (Tipo:vii, viii, ix)

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Lauterbrunnental

It’s hard to overstate just how stunning the LAUTERBRUNNEN VALLEY is – even hardened Alpinists shrug their shoulders and call it the most beautiful valley in Europe, bar none. An immense U-shaped valley (the world’s deepest) with bluffs on either side rising 1000m sheer, doused by some 72 waterfalls, it is utterly spectacular. Lauterbrunnen village itself lies on the valley floor, while the slopes above nurture two of Switzerland’s most appealing little resorts. Mürren to the west is the transfer point for the dramatic cable-car ride up to the Schilthorn peak, while Wengen to the east is a stop on the train line up to Kleine Scheidegg and the Jungfraujoch. Both of them are car-free, perched on narrow shelves of pasture way above the world below, and both offer some of the best hiking and skiing to be had in the Alps.

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Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch (Tipo:vii, viii, ix)

Emmentaler schaukäserei

Watch Emmental cheese being made into 95kg wheels and taste it at the Emmentaler Schaukäserei in Affoltern. Short videos explain the modern production process and how Emmental gets its famous holes, while cheese-making as it was done in the 18th century happens once a day over an open fire in the 18th-century herdsman’s cottage. The dairy processes 6 million litres of milk a year, brought each morning at 6am or 7am by farmers in the surrounding area. In summer try your hand at cheese rolling – yes, just that.

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Emmentaler schaukäserei
Schaukäsereistrasse 6, 3416 Affoltern im Emmental - Suiça
Telf: +41 (0)34 435 16 11 | E-mail: info@emmentaler-schaukaeserei.ch
Horario: 8.30am-6.30pm