In the new book Lonely Planet’s Best in Travel 2025, the southern German state is presented in the “Top 10 Regions” category alongside canton Valais in Switzerland, Terai in Nepal ...

Irrigated with water from the glaciers above, the canton’s vineyards, including the highest in Europe at 1,100m above sea level, produce the largest volume of wine in all of Switzerland. Valais ...

As soon as you received the approval from the Migration Office of the new canton, make sure to deregister with your previous municipality of residence. Their residence permit is valid for the whole of ...

Google and the Swiss Alpine Club (CAS) have launched a project to map a series of paths in Switzerland with the Google Trekker ... The first clips will be made in the Bernese and Valais Alps and we ...

This time, they include a German federal state, a Swiss canton and a favorite travel destination for Germans. The "Lonely Planet" travel guide recommends Valais as a travel destination for ...

Switzerland has a new tectonic map at a scale of 1:500,000. The TK500 contains updates to the geometry, distribution and nomenclature of the tectonic units of Switzerland and its neighboring areas.

The town of Zermatt is located at an elevation of 5,315 feet at the foot of the Matterhorn in southwestern Switzerland's Valais canton. Zermatt is known as the home of the Matterhorn, one of the ...

Investigations are continuing and should lead to further arrests," the Valais police statement said. Verbier, a French-speaking Alpine village located in the southern French-speaking canton ...

Hischier was born in Brig, which is in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. In March, he, along with Timo Meier, Jonas Siegenthaler, and Akira Schmid, were honored by their home country for being ...

Night - Partly cloudy. Winds NNE at 6 to 7 mph (9.7 to 11.3 kph). The overnight low will be 40 °F (4.4 °C). Cloudy with a high of 47 °F (8.3 °C). Winds from NNE to NE at 6 to 7 mph (9.7 to 11. ...

GENEVA, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Swiss police have arrested 15 drug traffickers operating around the Verbier mountain resort as part of the biggest ever swoop in the surrounding Valais canton ...