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Hinterdorf
The old heart of the village, with sun-blackened wooden barns raised on stone slabs to keep out mice.
- Open
- Always
- Price
- Free
- Time Needed
- 30 minutes
- Address
- Hinterdorfstrasse, 3920 ZermattDirections
- Getting There
- A 5-minute walk from Bahnhofstrasse.
Why Go
These granaries and stables, some centuries old, show what Zermatt was before tourism: a farming village. The flat stone slabs under the wooden posts stopped rodents getting at the grain.
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