Landscape Park of the Binn-Landschaftspark Binntal Valley

Binn Valley
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How to get

By train: Brig station, Ferrovie Federali. Timetables: www.ffs.ch. Then take the Railway MGB Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (Timetables: http://www.matterhorngotthardbahn.ch/it) for Grengiols, Niederwald or Blitzingen. For Ernen or Binn, continue up to Fiesch and take the Postbus (Line service).
By car: SS 33 road of Simplon and then N9 until Brig, then direction for Furka up to Lax where you take for the Binn Valley.
By bus: Swiss postbus lines for villages of the Binntal leaving from Fiesch.

About

In 2002  the municipalities of Binn, Ernen and Grengiols first believe in the project: “Landscape Park in the Binn Valley” joined later by Bister, Blitzingen and Niederwald. Nine years later, in September 2011, the park of the Binn Valley has become the first regional natural park in the Valais.

The Binn Valley is renowned for the abundance of its minerals and for its extremely rich flora and fauna. Its ancient villages in wood blackened by the sun are so well preserved that they are included among the sites of national and regional importance. Muhlebach can be proud of its oldest inhabited wooden houses in Switzerland.

The Regional Museum of Binn, near the Hotel Ofenhorn, houses a rich collection of local minerals and an interesting archaeological section documenting the human presence in the valley since the ancient times, connected with similar findings dislocated in the Antigorio Valley.

Ernen has the largest population among the Park municipalities. It was once the capital of the Goms district and headquarters of the district court, as evidenced by the dungeons in the town hall and the three columns of the scaffold on the hill between Ernen and Mühlebach. In 1979 Ernen has been awarded the Henri-Louis Wakker Recognition by Heimatschutz Svizzera (Swiss Heritage) for the preservation of the historical core and its magnificent buildings, such as the Tellenhaus, boasting the oldest frescoes of Switzerland on William Tell, the Kapuzinerhaus, and the house Jost Sigristen. In the last decades, Ernen is building itself a solid reputation as “music village” thanks to the proposal of a summer concert season with internationally renowned artists.