In a Swiss region now known for the glitzy resort town of Zermatt, researchers are uncovering forgotten history along an important medieval trade route
. Although that watershed moment popularized mountain climbing across Europe, it represents just one chapter of the Swiss village’s past.was designed to show a different side of the storied resort town. Over the next six years, the trail—a decade in the making—will stitch together roughly 12 miles of footpaths through six hamlets, highlighting centuries-old larch timber barns, once the lifeblood of Zermatt’s agrarian community, set amidst the bucolic alpine pastures.
Indeed, hundreds of years before a tourism boom turned Zermatt into a world-class ski resort, it was a pastoral paradise studded with chocolate-hued barns for caching grain, air-drying meat, and keeping livestock. The barns were essential for helping locals survive the region’s unique, which helped preserve them. But despite being a stop on a key Transalpine salt trade route, there are few written records documenting life here in the Late Middle Ages .
Skiers flock to pristine trails in Zermatt, located just six miles from the Matterhorn’s famous peak.Please be respectful of copyright. Unauthorized use is prohibited.The first signposted trail on the Kulturwege, unveiled in 2019, climbs nearly a thousand feet, a little over two miles, from Zermatt’s town center to Zmutt.
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