Kapelle Schwarzsee Maria zum Schnee
Lakeside pilgrimage chapel to Our Lady of the Snows, born of a vow made by men lost in glacier fog.
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This guide to the Schwarzsee chapel, Maria zum Schnee, above Zermatt starts with an old village legend: two local men caught in thick fog on the Theodul Glacier, and the promise they made there. It follows the chapel into the lives of the valley, from early-summer processions in years of drought to the unhappy wives who came to pray for help. Best heard on the lakeshore, facing the Hörnli ridge of the Matterhorn.
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