If You're NearbySaas-Fee
Valais
About 15 miles away
A car-free glacier village, ringed by 4,000-meter peaks.
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Matterhorn Glacier Paradise
The highest cable car station in Europe, at 3,883 meters, with an ice palace inside the glacier and summer skiing.
- Open
- Every day
- Price
- Paid
- Time Needed
- Half a day
- Address
- Schluhmattstrasse 28, 3920 ZermattDirections
- Getting There
- The valley station is a 15-minute walk from the village center.
Why Go
A chain of cable cars rises over the glacier to the Klein Matterhorn. The viewing platform at the top looks across the Alps to Mont Blanc, and a cable car carries on over the border to Testa Grigia, above Cervinia in Italy.
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