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Heidi and Graubünden
Johanna Spyri’s novel Heidi
tells the story of an orphan
girl who is taken to live with
her grandfather high up in the
Swiss Alps near Chur. The
most popular work of Swiss
fiction has been translated
into 50 languages, and cap-
DISCOVER Switzerland Your Way at Heididorf, a village above
tured the imagi nation of
children the world over. Kids
can re-create her adven tures
Maienfeld (p261) .

Children reenacting
characters Heidi and Clara
walking across a meadow

SWITZERLAND IN
BOOKS AND FILM

Switzerland’s jaw-dropping landscapes have inspired some of the most-
read classics in English literature, and can often be seen as the backdrop to
Hollywood blockbusters.There are museums, festivals and reenactments
held across the country to honour Switzerland’s affect on the imagination.

J R R Tolkien and Lauterbrunnen
For most Lord of the Rings fans, Middle Earth
means New Zealand, yet it was the sheer
cliffs, fairy tale grottoes and deep, dark
forests of the rugged Bernese Oberland (p80)
that inspired J R R Tolkien’s elvish valleys,
troll-filled woods and craggy fortresses.

The view of the Bernese
mountains that surround
turquoise Oscheninsee

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