Eschulbrunnu (Sumpter’s fountain)
A bowl cut into the rock, containing a wooden channel filled up with water served the mules and donkeys in earlier times as drinking trough. This facilitated the heavily loaded animals drinking, they were able to quench their thirst right along the mule track without bending down.
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Point of interestGuided Village Tour Blatten near Naters
The old village centre of Blatten offers a lot. With a guided tour you get to know the village. Blatten is extremely attractive and worth
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Point of interestThe old Lime Tree
The lime tree of almost 900 years in the old village centre of Naters makes each inhabitant pride, since it is one of the oldest trees in
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Point of interestOberriederi in the Aletsch Forest
Near the Silbersand and along the lower path from the Silbersand to the Riederfurka dry stone walls and trenches of the long-abandoned wa
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Point of interestSuone Riederfurka
On the way from Biel or from the Moosfluh in direction Alte Stafel and Aletsch forest you encounter scattered dry stone walls. Some are w
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Point of interestMuseum Ausserberg
The old village center in Ausserberg hosts some buildings worth seeing. Admire the barn in the trough village and the entrance to the gra
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Point of interestRough pasture Moos
On the mountain pasture, between the valley and the alpine pastures, most of the farmland are so-called rough pastures. The mostly dry me
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Point of interestOssuary in Naters
The ossuary in Naters goes back to the year 1514 and was built by the renowned Master of sacred building Ulrich Ruffiner. Ossuaries are u
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Point of interestTotuplata (Dead Plate)
In Naters, as well as in most localities in the Catholic Valais, it was a religious custom, to lay out the dead at home for 2-3 days, so
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