Trift
Victorian mountain inn and tiny white chapel in a high meadow, reached only on foot up a steep gorge.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Hotel du Trift above Zermatt follows one family of innkeepers across more than a century, from an inn opened on this slope in eighteen eighty-seven to the couple who run it today. It touches the little white chapel beside the house, the painting that moved indoors, and the years the hut stood empty. Best heard on the path in front of the house, with the chapel at your side.
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