Raron

Among the towns of Valais, Raron stands out for its rocky church hill rising directly above the Rhône valley. The municipality occupies the broad Upper Valais corridor between the Bernese Alps and the Pennine Alps, a landscape shaped by vineyards, rail lines and the river. The historic hilltop church and the Felsenkirche, set into the rock below, give the settlement its distinctive profile. Raron is also the burial place of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke; his grave bears an epitaph he wrote himself. It is a compact place with a strong sense of the valley’s routes, agriculture and alpine surroundings. Browse other webcams across Valais and the Rhône valley to place Raron in a wider geographic context.

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