3100 Kulmhotel Gornergrat
Highest hotel in the Swiss Alps, a stone mountain lodge with sweeping glacier and peak views.
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This guide to the 3100 Kulmhotel Gornergrat above Zermatt follows a small stone chapel on the path to the hotel, where visitors from around the world light memorial candles every day. It reaches back to the decades when summer Sunday mass was held among the hotel dining tables, and to a bishop's request in the years after. You'll meet a medieval archdeacon who sheltered travellers on the high passes, and the carved saints of the Valais standing over the altar.
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