Riffelalp
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet
- Description: resort in Valais, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Riffelalp Resort”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Riffelalp railway station and Findelbach railway station.
Riffelalp railway station
Railway station
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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.
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.
Riffelberg railway station
Railway station
Photo: Kabelleger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Riffelberg 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 2,582 m above mean sea level.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zum See and Furi.
Zum See
Hamlet
Photo: Kulmalukko, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Findeln
Locality
Photo: Zermatt photos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Findeln is a group of hamlets above Zermatt in the canton of Valais. They are located on the south facing slopes of the Sunnegga–Unterrothorn–Oberrothorn mountains.
Riffelalp
- Categories: resort and locality
- Location: Zermatt, Visp District, Valais, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.00167° or 46° 0′ 6″ northLongitude
7.75053° or 7° 45′ 2″ eastElevation
2,298 metres (7,539 feet)Open location code
8FR92Q22+M6OpenStreetMap ID
node 3444469294OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From German to Korean—“Riffelalp” goes by many names.
- German: “Riffelalp Resort”
- Italian: “Riffelalp”
- Japanese: “リッフェルアルプ”
- Korean: “리펠알프”
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Localities in the Area
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Riffelalp”. Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.