Ricola Kräutergarten
Free alpine garden of thirteen lozenge herbs to sniff and taste, beside a baroque chapel.
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This guide to the Ricola herb garden in Blatten, above Zermatt, is about belief in a summer hamlet of larch barns: the chapel of Mary, Queen of the Rosary beside the beds, built in sixteen forty, and the pilgrims who climbed to it from the village. It also follows the thirteen herbs behind a famous Swiss throat drop, and the old lore that still clings to a few of them. Stand between the chapel and the beds.
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