Parc naturel régional Gruyère Pays-d'Enhaut
Hôtel Wasserfall
Tradition and comfort at the foot of the Gastlosen.
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Parc naturel régional Gruyère Pays-d'Enhaut
Hotel Zur Sau
An idyllic and perfect place to unwind.
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Parc naturel régional Gruyère Pays-d'Enhaut
Info point - Gruyères Tourist Office
This information point presents 15 emblematic points of interest to visit or discover on the theme of the Park's local products. It's an opportunity to discover or rediscover new tastes and producers, 11 of whom offer products with the Produit des parcs suisses label.
Located on the premises of the Park’s partners, information points are the ideal place for visitors to familiarise themselves with the Park and everything it has to offer. These points feature interpretive panels as well as wealth of brochures, guides and leaflets in French, German and English.
Information center
Parc naturel régional Gruyère Pays-d'Enhaut
Info point - L’Etivaz visitor centre
This information point in the L’Étivaz visitor centre is given over entirely to the alpine economy: images, texts and maps guide you through a journey into the heart of mountain farming. The accompanying brochure has details of 15 different visits to alpine chalets in the Park, including contact details, directions and an introduction to cheese-making. The information point also has details of many other excursions and tours within the Park.
Located on the premises of the Park’s partners, information points are the ideal place for visitors to familiarise themselves with the Park and everything it has to offer. These points feature interpretive panels as well as wealth of brochures, guides and leaflets in French, German and English.
Information center
Parc naturel régional Gruyère Pays-d'Enhaut
Info point, Rougemont
This information point in the Rougemont tourist office is given over to the Park’s sacred heritage. There are an impressive number of churches, chapels, wayside and mission crosses, as well as the renowned Cluny site in Rougemont and the Charterhouse of la Valsainte in Cerniat. An interactive map takes visitors on a virtual tour of this sacred heritage and provides details of other excursions and activities.
Located on the premises of the Park’s partners, information points are the ideal place for visitors to familiarise themselves with the Park and everything it has to offer. These points feature interpretive panels as well as wealth of brochures, guides and leaflets in French, German and English.
Information center
Parc naturel régional Gruyère Pays-d'Enhaut
Information point – Les Mosses
This information point in the Les Mosses tourist office showcases 15 outstanding natural areas which bear witness to the birth of the Alps. All are within the Park’s perimeter and each one demonstrates the processes that have shaped, and continue to shape, the Alpine landscape that we know and admire today. Activities include hiking trails that take in some well-known sites like Lake Lioson, as well as hidden gems such as the Le Dâ waterfall. The information point also has details of many other excursions and tours within the Park.
Located on the premises of the Park’s partners, information points are the ideal place for visitors to familiarise themselves with the Park and everything it has to offer. These points feature interpretive panels as well as wealth of brochures, guides and leaflets in French, German and English.
Information center
Parc naturel régional Gruyère Pays-d'Enhaut
Infos Point Les Avants
Set off to discover a region shaped by nature and traditions.
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Parc naturel régional Gruyère Pays-d'Enhaut
Jaun - Charmey
Via Le Gruyère AOP
Theme trailHiking trailOther routes
Time required: 3 hours 54 minutesLength: 12.00km
Parc naturel régional Gruyère Pays-d'Enhaut
Jogne Gorge
The Jogne Gorge is a deep gash in the Earth sculpted by underground stream systems. The gorge links the Jogne Valley, at 800 m altitude, to the Sarine Valley, about 100 meters below. About 2 km long, the gorge is very narrow, with steep vertical sides, at times towering over 100m high.
A variety of rock formations dating to the Jurassic period are particularly visible. Jogne Limestone, rather resistant to erosion, forms the narrowest passage of the gorge, where tunnels and bridges have been built to allow hikers to navigate the gorge on foot.
Today, the flow and dynamic of the Jogne River have been altered by the presence of Montsalvens Dam. High water periods are artificial and depend on the workings of hydroelectric installations. A portion of the stocked water in the retention lake is diverted into the conduit turbines of Broc-Fabrique to produce electricity. The water then returns to the river downstream of the gorge.
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Parc naturel régional Gruyère Pays-d'Enhaut
L'Ermitage Guesthouse
A showcase of authenticity and local craftsmanship.
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Parc naturel régional Gruyère Pays-d'Enhaut
L'Etivaz - Col des Mosses
From the hamlet of L'Etivaz to the pre-Alpine resort of Les Mosses, this stage offers a panoramic view of the Pra Cornet plateau and the Vanils chain. The path allows you to appreciate the Lioson lake, before descending to the Mosses pass.
Hiking trail
Time required: 5 hoursLength: 14.00km
Parc naturel régional Gruyère Pays-d'Enhaut
L'Etivaz - Les Moulins
The walk begins at the storage cellars of L’Etivaz, where all the Etivaz AOP cheeses mature. Les Moulins is reached over diverse cow meadows belonging to the alpine farms, of which some produce Etivaz AOP.
Theme trailHiking trailOther routes
Time required: 2 hours 15 minutesLength: 7.50km
Parc naturel régional Gruyère Pays-d'Enhaut
La Charrière des Morts
La Charrière des Morts is a paved pathway which was used to carry the bodies of the dead from Neirivue, Villars-sous-Mont and Enney until 1948.
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Parc naturel régional Gruyère Pays-d'Enhaut
La Chocolaterie de Gruyères : atelier chocolat et vin
À la Chocolaterie de Gruyères, immersion dans l’univers du chocolat : de la fève à la tablette personnalisée. L’atelier se termine par une dégustation mêlant chocolats fins et accords de vins, pour une exploration sensorielle étonnante.
Culinary
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La ferme des Châbles
Joël and Estelle Mottier rear twenty or so suckler Angus cows on their organic farm, La Ferme des Châbles, in Les Moulins. The grass fodder harvested during the summer months at La Lécherette and Les Mosses keeps the herd well fed throughout winter. In the summer, the cows and their calves graze on the pastures of the family’s Grand Ayerne mountain farm of in the L’Hongrin valley.
Joël and Estelle are committed to local food, which is why they only sell their meat directly to families and commercial customers in the surrounding areas. They provide customised variety meat packs, with a quarter-beef box the smallest they offer. They also use the meat from cows at the end of their productive life to make dried meats, salami, minced beef and other beef-based products. These fresh and frozen products are then sold on to retail outlets.
For more than 10 years the Ferme des Châbles has also rented out rooms to short-stay guests, including the more recent addition of a separate holiday let
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Parc naturel régional Gruyère Pays-d'Enhaut
La forge de la Tzintre
Plonger dans l’ambiance authentique des années 1920-1930 en visitant l’ancienne forge de Charmey, restée intacte. Outils, foyer, enclume : tout semble prêt à reprendre vie, comme si le forgeron venait juste de quitter les lieux.
Culture experience
Parc naturel régional Gruyère Pays-d'Enhaut
La Golette
A young flour miller, named Maturin, regularly passed through this somber forest on his way to deliver flour to Charmey, One evening he stayed a little later then usual at the café de l’Etoile. On his especially nocturnal walk home, he was attacked by a red, fire-breathing colt along with other strange creatures that inhabited these wooded gorges. He found himself tied to a tree, and all he had been carrying was stream about the forest. After this traumatic experience, Maturin never lingered in cafes after dark again…
Be inspired by the mysterious energy of this strange place on the banks of the Javro. Let your imagination go, build a pebble structure and photograph it.
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La Gruyère Tourisme
Brings together the tourist offices of Gruyères and Bulle
Information center
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La Maison du Gruyère
The Maison du Gruyère is a cheese factory where you can discover all the secrets of making Gruyère AOP cheese and more. The magic of the transformation of milk into cheese happens from 9 to 11am and from 12:30 to 2:30pm. As visitors look on, the master cheese-maker produces 48 Gruyère AOP wheels which are then aged in a cellar that can contain up to 7,000 wheels. The exhibit Voyage au cœur des sens (Journey of the senses) answers all your questions in a ludic and interesting fashion. The cows' ascent to the mountain pastures, with bells clanging, starts your look (and opens your ears) into the life of a drop of milk. Your olfactory sense will be stimulated by distinctive, perfumed aromas, and your sense of touch awakened, as you run fingers over grasses, cow hide, whitewash… Visual stimulation is omnipresent. You can admire the art of cheese-maker at work, as well as numerous images and videos. Your tastebuds most certainly will not be neglected, as you are invited to sample Gruyère AOP at three different stages of maturity.
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La Pierre aux Clercs
This border is still lined by agricultural exploitations. The vaudois and fribourgeois pastures are still clearly outlined by ancient stone walls and fences.
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Parc naturel régional Gruyère Pays-d'Enhaut
La Pierreuse
Located in the Prealps, south of Château-d'Œx on the left bank of the Sarine river, La Pierreuse reserve encompasses 34 square kilometers of mid-mountain terrain. It extends from the Gummfluh mountain range to the Pic Chaussy range. La Pierreuse is listed in Federal Inventory of Landscapes and Natural Monuments of National Importance. It is a crown example of typical subalpine terrain: rocky zones; alpine prairies with rich flora; marshes; fir, pine and spruce trees; and deciduous forests.
La Pierreuse Reserve, created in 1945, is now managed by Pro Natura with a commission uniting concerned parties for nature conservation in the canton of Vaud.
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Parc naturel régional Gruyère Pays-d'Enhaut
La Rambertia Alpine garden
Just the journey alone with the rack-railway from Montreux to the summit of the Rochers de Naye will delight those interested in culture.
Theme trail
Time required: 4 hoursLength: 11.00km
Parc naturel régional Gruyère Pays-d'Enhaut
La Sarine au Pays-d'Enhaut
From Rougemont, which was once the priory of Cluny, the trial goes over the Kirchenhügel from Château-d'Oex to the Grand Chalet of Rossinière. It goes between the rushing Saane and landscape steeped in history, moulded by the mountain farmers.
Hiking trail
Time required: 2 hoursLength: 15.00km
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La Tine - Allières
The route ascends an alpine road up to the mountain ridge underneath La Petite Chia Alp. From there the trail descends to Montbovon and the the Hongrin valley, an essential passageway for the Gruyère and Pays-d’Enhaut alpine farmers.
Theme trailHiking trailOther routes
Time required: 2 hours 45 minutesLength: 7.90km
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La Tine Bridge
La Tine Bridge was built in 1785. Its twin arches over the Sarine connect local hamlets to the chemin royal (royal path) that Leurs Excellences de Berne (the excellencies of Bern) had built in 1748. Today, the bridge is located in the main artery of the valley.
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La Valsainte Carthusian Charterhouse
La Valsainte is tucked into the Javro Valley, in the municipality of Cerniat.
The Valsainte was founded in 1294, following a donation from Girard 1st of Corbières. Until the 16th century, only the church was of solid stone construction. The conventual buildings and cells were wood. Tragic, deadly fires scar the history of the Valsainte. In 1778, the Charterhouse was closed and the monks moved to La Part-Dieu (Bulle). Authorized by the state of Fribourg to buy back the Valsainte in 1861, the Carthusians entirely reconstructed their monastery. From 1863 to 1903, a series of additions were put on the Valsainte. The last line of cells was erected in order to accommodate Carthusians chased from France. These cells were demolished in 2008 in order to restore the stability of the monastery threatened by erosion.
Historical building
Parc naturel régional Gruyère Pays-d'Enhaut
La Valsainte – Charmey
A gentle stroll through the Javro valley
Hiking trail
Time required: 2 hours 5 minutesLength: 7.30km
Parc naturel régional Gruyère Pays-d'Enhaut
Le Belluard
It is known as the Belluard (meaning boulevard) passageway and fortifications. Two Gruérien warriors are depicted on the fortified gate. These warriors, Claremboz et Bras de Fer ("Iron Arms"), fought off the first assault of the Oberland Everdes war in 1349.
Historical building
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Le Berceau
Breakfast includes fresh milk, jams, homemade yoghurt and local cheeses from a nearby village on the banks of the Sarine river.
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Le Chalet, show cheese dairy
Le Chalet is one of Château-d'Œx’s most popular tourist attractions. Its famed organic cheese, Le Chalet Bio, is made by heating milk from mountain farms in large vats over a wood fire. In the heart of the restaurant, the cheesemaker, dressed in traditional garb, turns between 160 and 200 litres of organic milk into a 16-20 kilo wheel of hard cheese. The wheels are then left for around five to six months in a ripening cellar. The end product also features on the restaurant menu, either as part of a cheese board or as a special ingredient in a number of dishes.
The artisan cheese-making demonstration takes place from Wednesday to Sunday, 10.30 am to 12.30 pm. Group visits can also be booked in advance (minimum group size: 15).
Visitors can buy Le Chalet Bio and lots of other great local produce and souvenirs in the shop on the ground floor.
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