Findeln
Former summer farming hamlet with old chalets and a chapel, now famed for its mountain restaurants.
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This guide to Findeln, the old summer farming hamlet above Zermatt, follows one family, the Julens, from a wooden house built in nineteen hundred to the tearoom where they first sold what their farm produced. It touches the rye fields and cattle drives of the hamlet's farming years, and a chairlift that changed the winters here. Best heard on the path among the chalet restaurants, with Sunnegga above you.
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