Blatten
Blatten is a hamlet in Zermatt, Visp District, Valais and has an elevation of 1,732 metres. Blatten is situated nearby to the hamlet Zum See, as well as near Furi.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Findelbach railway station and Riffelalp railway station.
Findelbach railway station
Railway station
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Findelbach is a railway station on the Gornergrat railway, which links the resort of Zermatt with the summit of the Gornergrat. The station is situated in the municipality of Zermatt, in the Swiss canton of Valais, at an altitude of 1,770 m above mean sea level.
Riffelalp railway station
Railway station
Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Riffelalp is a railway station on the Gornergrat railway, a rack railway which links the resort of Zermatt with the summit of the Gornergrat. The station is situated west of the Gornergrat, in the Swiss municipality of Zermatt and canton of Valais, at an altitude of 2,211 m above mean sea level.
Matterhorn Museum
Museum
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The Matterhorn Museum is a cultural-natural museum in Zermatt whose main theme is the Matterhorn. The museum is in the form of a reconstituted mountain village consisting of 14 houses, and relates the history and development of tourism in the Zermatt area, including the story of the first ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper and party.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zum See and Furi.
Zum See
Hamlet
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Zum See is a hamlet in the canton of Valais. It is located above Zermatt at a height of 1,766 metres, between the rivers Zmuttbach and Gornera, at the foot the Matterhorn.
Furi
Hamlet
Furi is an alpine hamlet in the Pennine Alps, located three kilometers south of Zermatt, Switzerland at an altitude of 1,687m. It is located on a relatively flat area of land between the Gornera and Zmuttbach rivers.
Riffelalp
Hamlet
Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Riffelalp is a hamlet in the municipality of Zermatt in the canton of Valais. It is located at a height of 2,222 metres above sea level, just above the tree line, approximately halfway between the town of Zermatt and the Gornergrat mountain.
Blatten
- Type: Hamlet
- Category: locality
- Location: Zermatt, Visp District, Valais, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.00762° or 46° 0′ 27″ northLongitude
7.73604° or 7° 44′ 10″ eastElevation
1,732 metres (5,682 feet)Open location code
8FR92P5P+2COpenStreetMap ID
node 4058038687OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
2661480
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- German: “Blatten”
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