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What's Cooking in Switzerland

A dream come true for food lovers! Join Burt Wolf and enjoy the beauty, history and cuisine of this wonderful country.

Duration:

10 Days/9 Nights

Meals Included:

8 Buffet Breakfasts, 3 Lunches, 5 Dinners

Rates From:* (Incl Roundtrip Airfare)
St. Peter's Cathedral
St Peter's Cathedral (Cathedrale St-Pierre) is Geneva's partly Romanesque and partly Gothic church located in the heart of the old town. John Calvin preached here from 1536 to 1564. The austere looking interior reflects Calvin's Reformist teachings.

Lake Geneva
Stretching along Switzerland�s southern border with France, Lake Geneva (also called Lac Leman by the Swiss) is the largest lake in Europe. Its pristine shores support a strong fresh water fishing industry. Some would argue that it offers the most beautiful views of any waterway.

Notre Dame de Valere
The Val�re basilica is a fortified church situated in Sion in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It is situated on a hill and faces the Ch�teau de Tourbillon, located on the opposite hill. The church (Notre-Dame de Val�re) was built during the 12th and 13th centuries and obtained the rank of minor basilica at the time of the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1984.
The organ on the west side of the Val�re basilica, believed to have been built in 1435, is one of the oldest in the world. Its pipes are arranged to form a rough outline of a church; the larger pipes form two towers, and the smaller ones create a triangular church roof. It was renovated in 1954, around the time that another famous early model�the Rysum organ--was repaired.

Crans-Montana
Crans-Montana (also known as Crans sur Sierre) is a ski resort in the heart of the Swiss Alps in the Valais, located on a plateau above Sierre at an altitude of about 1,500 m, allowing good view over the Valais Alps and Weisshorn in particular. The resort is an amalgamation of the two separate villages of Crans and Montana.

Bettmeralp
Bettmeralp is a village and ski resort in the Swiss canton of Valais, 1,957 m above sea level, in the municipality of Betten. Bettmeralp is a car-free village which can be reached by cable car from the Betten train station (Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn).

Aletsch Glacier
The Aletsch Glacier or Great Aletsch Glacier is the largest glacier in the Alps. It has a length of about 23 km and covers more than 120 square kilometres (more than 45 square miles) in the eastern Bernese Alps in the Swiss canton of Valais. The Aletsch Glacier is composed by three smaller glaciers converging at Concordia, where its thickness is estimated to be near 1 km. It then continues towards the Rhone valley before giving birth to the Massa river.
The Aletsch Glacier is one of the most impressive feature of the Swiss Alps, the whole area, including other glaciers was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Sight.

Pennine Alps
The Pennine Alps are a mountain range in the western part of the Alps. They are located in Switzerland (Valais) and Italy (Piedmont and the Aosta Valley).

Stockalper Palace
The Stockalper Palace dominates the town of Brig. It was built in 1658-78 by Kaspar Jodok von Stockalper, an enormously wealthy merchant, who made his money initially in trading with Milan. He improved the route over the Simplon, and set up a courier service over the pass. The palace, built around a square courtyard, has three towers, which were given the traditional names of the three wise men, Kaspar (like Stockalper himself), Balthazar and Melchior.

Matterhorn
The Matterhorn is a mountain in the Pennine Alps. With its 4,478 metres (14,692 ft) high summit, lying on the border between Switzerland and Italy, it is one of the highest peaks in the Alps and its 1,200 metres (3,937 ft) north face is one of the Great north faces of the Alps. It is also one of the deadliest peaks in the Alps: from 1865 � when it was first climbed � to 1995, over 500 alpinists have died on it.
The mountain overlooks the town of Zermatt in the canton of Valais to north-east and Cervinia in the Aosta Valley to the south.Although not the highest mountain in Switzerland, the Matterhorn is considered to be an iconic emblem of the Swiss Alps in particular and the Alps in general.

Matterhorn Museum
The Matterhorn Museum in Zermatt is a cultural-natural museum whose main theme is the Matterhorn. The museum is in the form of a reconstituted mountain village consisting of 14 houses (church, hotel, huts and granaries), and relates the history and development of tourism in the Zermatt area.

Aigle Castle
The imposing Aigle Castle sits in the middle of vineyards, a fortress built in the 12th century by Savoy and reworked by the Bernese starting at the end of the 15th century. Since 1976, it has been the prestigious setting for the collections of the Vine and Wine Museum, which preserves the heritage of the wine growers and the cultural traditions of wine.

Wine Museum
The Wine Museum shows in its 17 halls the cultural dimensions of viticulture and wine in the canton of Vaud and in other parts of Switzerland as well as in neighboring countries. Implements, presses, casks, corks, corkscrews, wine goblets and decanters take the visitor on a journey from the grape to the table. A visit to the museum is also a visit to a fascinating castle in a lovely wine-growing region.

Chillon Castle
The Chillon Castle (Ch�teau de Chillon) is located on the shore of Lake Geneva, at the eastern end of the lake, near Montreux, Switzerland. The castle consists of 100 independent buildings that were gradually connected and now form a single whole.

Olympic Museum
The Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland houses permanent and temporary exhibits relating to sport and the Olympic movement. With more than 10,000 pieces, the museum is the largest archive of Olympic Games in the world and one of Lausanne's prime tourist draws attracting more than 250,000 visitors each year.