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(^52) BEST WEEKENDS AWAY 18 Each winter, the people of the Lötschental valley high in the Swiss Alps gather for a carnival that ...

I t’s not safe to walk the Lötschental after dark. When the sun sets behind the mountains that rise over the valley, turning the ...

MONSTERS OF THE ALPS The work of master woodworkers is evident all over the valley, including in roadside crucifixes, its archit ...

MONSTERS OF THE ALPS dates from 1892, though the tradition is believed to have started long before then. ‘Nothing older is left, ...

were unmarried men, allowed out only in the daytime and never on Sundays, but Albert was part of a movement to change that. In t ...

ideas. I like that about Tschäggättä. It might be a monster or a witch or the devil or just a fantasy when are you are a Tschäg ...

MONSTERS OF THE ALPS Tschäggä on procession through the night. Left: The enormous cowbells attached to embroidered leather belts ...

MONSTERS OF THE ALPS push people around, pull their ears, hit them with sticks, drag them along behind. Some climb snowbanks and ...

Electrician Manuel Blötzer has been taking part in Tschäggättä ever since he can remember, carrying on the tradition from his fa ...

Getting there The most convenient airport is Geneva, a two-and-a-half-hour drive away. Direct flights leave from various UK citi ...

MONSTERS OF THE ALPS 1 Start your journey in the Blaue Stube exhibition, owned by Heinrich, Ruth and Agnes Rieder, which houses ...

Weekends on wheels From horsedrawn trundling to jolty off- roading, get closer to the landscape with one of these daring drives ...

Portugal’s 600 miles of coastline are the big draw for most but, inland, the eastern backlands of the Alentejo region present a ...

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While you can immerse yourself in Claude Monet’s epic Water Lilies series in a museum within the Jardin des Tuileries, the actua ...

Henri Matisse’s vibrant canvas Dance was commissioned by a Russian collector in 1910, then acquired by the state during the Revo ...

WORDS: ORLA THOMAS. PHOTOGRAPHS: JAIME PHARR/SHUTTERSTOCK, GARY LATHAM, COURTESYOF THE FLYING DUTCHMEN, BLUE PLANET STUDIO/SHUTT ...