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Article The alp-villages in Vorarlberg
Located in Culture / Settlement Way
Article The county Valais
Located in History
Article The emigration of the Alemanni in Upper Valais
Located in History
Article The great Walser Route
In this section you will find desprciptions of possible hiking-routes throughout Walser settlements in Northern Italy, Upper Valais, Tessin, Graubünden, Liechtenstein and Vorarlberg.
Located in Landscape / Der Grosse Walserweg
Article The nobility in Valais
Located in History
Article The reformation in Graubünden
The Walser are catholics! The following assumption is common whereever the faifth of the migrants and their descendents is being discussed: The Walser however are catholic. This is true for the larger part of the settlers in the Walser regions. The Walser remained true to their ancestor’s faifth in the Italian valleys south of the Monte Rosa, in Pomatt, Bosco-Gurin, Sarganserland, Triesenberg and Vorarlberg.
Located in Culture / Religion
Article The Walser barn in Kleinwalsertal
According to investigation the building of barns in Kleinwalsertal goes back as far as the 14th century. However, only one beam could be found where the tree had been cut down in 1389.
Located in Culture / Building Methods
Article The Walser legislation
It was an issue whether the special legal status of the Walser in relation other alpine nations was an inheritance from Valais or a colonists’ legislation that had been acquired later. In it can be read repeatedly “sicut est illorum consuetude”. But because of Liver’s analyses Zinsli and Ilg conclude that the Walser legislation was the legislation of colonists.
Located in History
Article C header The youth
General introduction to the division youth, clubs and meeting points in the Walser communities.
Located in Youth and Sport
Article Tourism
At the turn of the 19th to the 20th century summer visitors used the villages for recreation. A few years later winter visitors discovered the Walser valleys as areas with snow guaranteed.
Located in Trade and Economics / Economics