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Travel Home > Directory > Destinations > Europe > Switzerland > Zermatt
Zermatt. Pop. 5,687. Currency Swiss franc (CHF). Language German. Time Zone GMT + 1 hour. Nearest Airport - Zurich. Best Time to go – year round location – for winter sports, and summer hiking (avoid the month of May due to heavy construction traffic). Zermatt is a located in southern Switzerland close to the Italian border. The town is famous due to it’s proximity to the Matterhorn first climbed by Edward Whymper. Since this first ascent Zermatt grew in popularity and is now a very popular ski resort and tourist destination. Along with skiing and winter sports Zermatt is a starting point for many hikes into the surrounding mountains, including the prestigious Haute Route that eventually leads to Chamonix in France. Uniquely, the town is a combustion-engine car-free zone allowing smog free views of the Matterhorn. Most visitors reach Zermatt by cog railway train or taxi from a nearby town. Zermatt is well known throughout the world for its great skiing. The high altitude results in consistent skiing continuously up until the summer. Skiing in Zermatt is split up into four distinct areas; Sunnegga, Gornegrat, Klein Matterhorn and Schwarzsee. Uniquely, Zermatt is also a closed town, which means that non-Swiss nationals are not permitted to buy property within the area.
Zermatt Skier and Winter Sports Hotels Reservation Alpenhof Hotel Mont Cervin Hotel Antares Hotel Seiler Hotel Schweizerhof Christiania Hotel Zermatterhof Hotel Riffelalp Resort Zermatt Travel Skiing and Tourism.
Alpenhof Hotel, is a 4 star hotel with 176 rooms. Chalet-style Hotel with modern facilities, restaurant and bar, and situated near the train station. The hotel is very well placed in Zermatt - opposite the Rothorn cable car and 2 minutes walk to the start of the Gornergrat railway.A bus passes very close by that can take you to the other end of the village to access the Schwarzsee and Kleine Matterhorn cable cars.
Zermatt (French: Praborgne) is a municipality in the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It is located at the northern base of the Matterhorn in the German-speaking and predominantly Roman Catholic section of the canton. Zermatt is famed as a ski resort and as a tourist destination. The town was "discovered" mid-century by British mountaineers, most notably Edward Whymper, whose conquest of the Matterhorn made the village famous worldwide.
The Glacier Express from Zermatt to St. Moritz (or Davos Platz [Summer only]) in Switzerland is one of the great train journeys in the world. The trip on the Glacier Express is a 7½ hour railway journey across 291 bridges, through 91 tunnels and across the Oberalp Pass at 2,033 metres in altitude.
The Klein Matterhorn (marketed as the "Matterhorn Glacier Paradise") is the highest point in the Zermatt-Cervinia ski area in Switzerland, and the end point of the highest cable car in Europe. The peak is at 3883m with the cable car terminal at 3820m.
The Matterhorn (German) or Cervino (Italian), (French: Mont Cervin or Le Cervin) is perhaps the most familiar mountain in the European Alps. On the border between Switzerland and Italy, it towers over the Swiss village of Zermatt and the Italian village Breuil-Cervinia in the Val Tournanche. The mountain derives its name from the German words Matte, meaning valley or meadow, and Horn, which means peak.
