Grächen
Grächen is a municipality in the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. The village is situated at an altitude of 1,620 meters on a terrace above St. Niklaus in the Mattertal, north of the Mischabel range.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 1,230 residents
- Description: municipality in Switzerland
- Also known as: “CH6285”, “Grachen”, “Grächen VS”, and “Graechen”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kalpetran railway station and Seetalhorn.
Kalpetran railway station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Kalpetran railway station, is a railway station in the municipality of Embd, in the Swiss canton of Valais. It is an intermediate stop on the 1,000 mm Brig–Zermatt line and is served by local trains only.
Seetalhorn
Peak
Photo: Wandervogel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Seetalhorn is a mountain of the Swiss Pennine Alps, overlooking Grächen in the canton of Valais. With an elevation of 3,037 m, it is the highest point of the ski area of Grächen.
Distelhorn
Peak
The Distelhorn is a mountain of the Swiss Pennine Alps, overlooking Grächen in the canton of Valais.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Embd and St. Niklaus.
Embd
Village
Photo: Zacharie Grossen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Embd is a municipality in the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
St. Niklaus
Village
Photo: Roylindman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. Niklaus is a village and a municipality in the Mattertal, part of the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. St. Niklaus is situated 4 km southwest of Grächen.
Eisten
Village
Photo: Reustli, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Eisten is a municipality in the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. Eisten is situated 3½ km east of Grächen.
Grächen
- Categories: Municipality of Switzerland and car-free place
- Location: Visp District, Valais, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Grächen” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Grächen”
- Basque: “Grächen”
- Breton: “Grächen”
- Catalan: “Grächen”
- Cebuano: “Grächen (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Grächen”
- Chinese: “格雷兴”
- Chinese: “格雷興”
- Czech: “Grächen”
- Dutch: “Grachen”
- Dutch: “Grächen”
- Dutch: “Graechen”
- Esperanto: “Grächen”
- Finnish: “Grächen”
- French: “Grachen”
- French: “Grächen”
- German: “Grächen”
- German: “Kipfen”
- Hungarian: “Grächen”
- Irish: “Grächen”
- Italian: “Grächen”
- Korean: “그레헨”
- Lombard: “Grächen”
- Malay: “Grächen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Grächen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Grächen”
- Norwegian: “Grächen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Grächen”
- Piemontese: “Grächen”
- Polish: “Grächen”
- Portuguese: “Grächen”
- Romansh: “Grächen”
- Spanish: “Grachen”
- Spanish: “Grächen”
- Swedish: “Grächen”
- Swiss German: “Grächen”
- Tosk Albanian: “Grächen”
- Turkish: “Grächen”
- Ukrainian: “Грехен”
- Upper Sorbian: “Grächen”
- Venetian: “Grächen”
- Volapük: “Grächen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Grächen”
- Welsh: “Grächen”
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