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Why Zermatt & Matterhorn, Switzerland.
Zermatt sits beneath the Matterhorn (4,478m) — the most recognisable mountain on earth — in a car-free village reached only by cog railway from Täsch.
The Gornergrat railway climbs to 3,089m for a panorama of 29 peaks over 4,000m; the Matterhorn Glacier Paradise is Europe’s highest cable-car station at 3,883m.
Skiing runs nearly year-round thanks to glacier slopes, with lifts connecting across the border to Cervinia in Italy — ski two countries in a day.
Summer brings world-class hiking — the Five Lakes Walk reflects the Matterhorn in still alpine tarns — and the via ferrata and high-alpine huts of the Pennine Alps.
The village is chocolate-box Swiss — larch chalets, the Hörnli mountaineers’ cemetery, and a fondue-and-raclette culture that takes its cheese very seriously.
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