Grand Hotel Zermatterhof
Grand hotel raised by village citizens with unpaid labour, community-owned to this day.
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This guide to the Grand Hotel Zermatterhof in Zermatt goes back to the eighteen seventies, when a mountain village was becoming a summer resort and its biggest hotels belonged to one family. It follows a parish priest's proposal, Josef Ruden's, and the old citizen families who answered it with their own unpaid labour. Best heard on the Bahnhofstrasse, facing the long facade.
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