Blatten
Hamlet of blackened larch houses and a red baroque chapel on a rock ledge above summer pastures.
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This guide to the Blatten chapel above Zermatt starts at the altar of a small red baroque chapel from sixteen forty, dedicated to Mary, Queen of the Rosary. It follows a lost Madonna, the Zermatt priest who sent a replacement from southern Italy, and the French invasion of seventeen ninety-eight. Along the way you'll hear about the summer farmers who drove their cattle up to these pastures and came here for Sunday mass. Best heard standing in front of the pillared porch.
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