On the Italian border
A municipality south of the Simplon Pass, Zwischbergen lies right on the Italian border. The municipality includes the well-known border village of Gondo, where the majority of its 74 inhabitants live. Opposite the village, a road winds up onto a terrace, behind which the beautifully rugged, 16-km-long Zwischbergental valley opens up.
The aptly named Zwischbergental (‘valley between mountains’) is surrounded by mountain peaks up to 4,000 metres high. The gold mines at the entrance to the valley have been known about since Roman times. They were shut down at the end of the 19th century and have since been turned into a visitors’ mine.
