Hinterdorfstrasse
Narrow lanes of blackened larch barns and food stores on stilts, some over five hundred years old.
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This guide walks you into the Hinterdorf, the old back village off Hinterdorfstrasse in Zermatt, where barns and storehouses on stilts date back five centuries. It is a story about food: what a remote Alpine village had to put away to last the winter, and who kept which door. Along the way you'll meet the flat stones under every floor and the oddly specific furniture built for rye bread. Stand in the narrowest lane, close enough to touch the blackened larch.
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