Zermatt, Switzerland Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

The shark's-tooth Matterhorn (4478m) is the most famous of Switzerland's peaks, and no other natural or human structure in the whole country is so immediately recognizable: in most people's minds, the Matterhorn stands for Switzerland like the Eiffel Tower stands for France. One reason it's so famous is that it stands alone, its impossibly pointy shape sticking up from an otherwise uncrowded horizon above ZERMATT village; another is that the quintessential Swiss chocolate, Toblerone, was modelled on it. The only way to reach Zermatt is on the spectacular narrow-gauge BVZ train line (ER no … more »