Kapelle Winkelmatten Zur Heiligen Familie
Small seventeenth-century hamlet chapel with a carved stone-pine baroque altar of the Holy Family.
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This guide to the Winkelmatten chapel in Zermatt starts with a local legend about a building site, a night, and two neighbouring communities who both wanted the parish church. It moves to the small chapel raised here in sixteen oh seven, and to the baroque altar Anton Sigristen carved from Swiss stone pine in seventeen thirty. Along the way you will hear about the old courting customs that brought young couples out to this hamlet.
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