The barns are grain barns, meaning they were only used to store and dry the sheaves of grain from the terraced fields above the meadows. Unlike the granaries, they only …

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Around the village of Zermatt there are small hamlets that were used for alpine farming and agriculture in the summer in earlier centuries. This includes the hamlet of Herbrigg in the south-western hills above the village, which lies at an altitude of 1,754 m.
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