Riffelalp
Car-free alpine hamlet and grand hotel site, linked to its railway station by a tiny summer tram.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to Riffelalp above Zermatt is about the tiny tram that runs from the Gornergrat railway station to the hotel, and a length nobody can agree on. It reaches back to hotelier Alexander Seiler and the grand hotel he opened here in eighteen eighty-four, to a cog railway that stopped short of his door, and to a night in nineteen sixty-one. Best heard on the station platform, looking down at the narrow rails.
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