Marnand Castle
Marnand, Vaud
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"I am beautiful, O mortals, like a dream of stone."
Charles Baudelaire — La Beauté
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The Journal
25 August 2026
Historic places to stay in Switzerland — 13 exceptional homes
There are hotels, there are holiday flats — and then there are the places that fit no category: a mayen from 1770 at the foot of the Dent Blanche, a palazzo that has welcomed travellers for a hundred and forty years, fishermen's houses saved from demolition. Places where spending the night becomes a way of inhabiting history rather than visiting it.
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Countryside heritage stays in Switzerland: from Lake Biel to Lake Constance
Swiss heritage is not only about mountain chalets: it also lives in medieval towns, on river quays and on lake shores. This guide gathers our addresses of the plains and mid-mountains — five houses between Lake Biel and Lake Constance, by way of Solothurn and the Neuchâtel Jura, where history can be read at street level.
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Ticino rustico stays: sleeping in traditional stone houses
South of the Alps, Ticino built in stone: thick walls, stone-slab roofs, whole villages that seem to have grown out of the ground. These houses — the rustici — tell of a hard, ingenious life. Many were abandoned in the 20th century; the finest rebirths are recent, and two of them are in our collection.
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