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Switzerland: Travel + Fine Art Photographs

Photographs of Switzerland, including Allmendhubel, Mürren, Lauterbrunnen, Lucerne, Schilthorn, Zürich, + more.

Cities + Locations Photographed

Cities and sights visited include:

  • Allmendhubel
  • Mürren
  • Lauterbrunnen
  • Lucerne
  • Piz Gloria
  • Schilthorn
  • Zürich

Artist Notes

I have fond memories of visiting Mürren, a village in Switzerland, when younger. For me, these images are not only a virtual visit across the Atlantic, but a travel back in time. When I visited Mürren, it was a car-free village, as were most of the mountainside towns and villages. It took us 24 hours of travel to arrive in Mürren from the Zurich, the capital of Switzerland. This included travel by funicular up the mountainside.

The funicular is a mountainside train that travels up and down the mountainside. There are actually two cars — they counterbalance each other, so one always travels up the track as the other travels down an adjacent track. It’s fun for kids to watch for the other car and wave at the other passengers as they cross paths mid-way up the mountainside.

We would travel to Lauterbrunnen by train, then up in the funicular to Grutschalp. From there we would take a smaller train past Winteregg to Mürren, the end of the line. My grandparents always enjoyed staying at the Hotel Eiger, which overlooked the station.

We would spend our days exploring the countryside around Mürren… the Blumenthal valley was always a popular excursion — we would stop for lunch at the Suppen Alp, a restaurant in the middle of the valley. We also enjoyed visiting the top of the Schilthorn by cable car, where the revolving restaurant, Piz Gloria, is located. You might be familiar with it, as it was featured in the James Bond movie, "On Her Majesty’s Secret Service."

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