| | All you have to do is take the funicular from Sierre to follow the route of the local people who, like nomads, would in times gone by follow the retreating or advancing snow line, between the terrace of vines above the river and the area of pastures and high mountain meadows where cheese-making traditions have continued throughout the centuries. It is this life of transhumance, the necessity to conserve food all year ro und, which has given us the wealth of local produce in Valais today. Dried meat, delicately seasoned sausages and bacon, cheese from the Alpine meadows, plain or nut rye bread, not forgetting the exceptional wine produced in the local hills… Local produce in Crans-Montana blends perfectly with the imagination of top chefs, some of whose names feature in the well-known guides.
Inalpes (Famous Swiss tradition of cow fighting, when the cows go to the mountain pastures)
- Corbyre mountain pastures: saturday 06 June 2009
- Merdechon mountain pastures: saturday 20 June 2009
- Pépinet mountain pastures: saturday 21 June 2009 |
