The City Code · Switzerland
Zermatt
Car-free, exacting and dressed for dinner by seven.
Arriving
Train all the way — Zermatt admits no cars. Change at Visp; the hotel sends an electric cart to the station.
Book this first
The hotel and the ski school together, twelve months ahead for February.
What is worn
Technical by day, cashmere by night. The grand hotels still dress for dinner.
Money & manners
Rounding up is enough. Swiss francs, and everything is expensive — plan for it.
The golden hour
The first ten minutes of sunrise on the Matterhorn, seen from Gornergrat.
The usual mistake
Booking the last week of February without a year's notice. It is the one week that truly sells out.
When to come
January — see where to go, month by month.
From the collection
The stay, the table, the morning
Go deeper
The rest of Zermatt on Velori
Elsewhere
Other city codes
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