Valais Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
canton of Switzerland
About Valais
The Valais has historically been quite an isolated place. Nowadays the Valais is very easily accessible through to an extensive road network including roads over all the major passes as well as rail links to the rest of Switzerland and the surrounding countries through rail tunnels. In the past however, its location in the middle of the Alps made it very hard to access and travelling to some of the deeper valleys involved either a big detour all the way down to Lake Geneva or traversing one of the many mountain passes. Some villages have only gotten access by road in the middle of the last century and the region (especially the villages located at higher altitudes) were underdeveloped and mostly agricultural until a few decades ago. While those days are long gone now, this isolation still
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