With its furnace, anvil and rows of hammers all still intact, the Old Smithy in Charmey bears witness to the generations of craftsmen who once faithfully served the local farming community. Frédy Roos, son of the village’s last farrier, has lovingly ...
Le lieu-dit Les Planches, qui signifie replat, se situe à la limite entre la commune de Crésuz de celle de Val de Charmey. Situé à plus de 1000m d’altitude, ce tracé historique (IVS d’importance régional) constituait jusqu’à la deuxième moitié du 19è...
Alors que le clocher actuel date, à la base, de 1673, l'église fut reconstruite à plusieurs reprises. Elle fut rebâtie une première fois en 1567, puis de 1735 à 1739 et consacrée en 1738 par Monseigneur Duding qui la dédie à Saint Laurent. Des modif...
A selection of leaflets and brochures are available at all information points. These feature all the latest news about the Park as well as activity ideas and listings.
Le Parc à la carte regroupe toutes les activités et forfaits proposés par le Parc entre mai 2022 et avril 2023.
In an intimate and enchanting setting, the Jardins de la Tour restaurant welcomes you with a smile and presents you with original and creative cuisine. From Patrick Gazeau's kitchen, emerge small culinary masterpieces; beautiful to look at, delicate...
Started in 1661, this symmetric, duplex chalet was completed in 1664. The south façade features rich carved and painted decoration. Finishing work (doors, windows, iron-work, pictorial decoration) followed and was completed in 1670.
Named for the Ma...
La Tine Bridge was built in 1785. Its twin arches over the Sarine connect local hamlets to the chemin royal (royal path) that Leurs Excellences de Berne (the excellencies of Bern) had built in 1748. Today, the bridge is located in the main artery of ...
On the old stone path linking the village of Lessoc to Montbovon, sits the most complete, well-preserved wood covered-bridge in the canton of Fribourg. The construction date is carved into the oak crossbar on the right bank: 1667.
The Grand Chemin that leads to the Ancien Comté on the left bank of the Sarine meets the Hongrin River Gorge before the village of Montbovon. Three road bridges and one railroad bridge constructed during the last four centuries meet at this intersect...
Château-d’Œx, with its double calling as a haven of agriculture and tourism, includes the villages and hamlets of Moulins, l’Etivaz, La Lécherette, Gérignoz, and Granges. Architectural gems dot the region: in town a group of marvelous stone buildings...
Les Avants developed a notable hotel industry starting the middle of the 19th century with the arrival of public transportation. The village has a unique regional architecture. In Sonloup, the funicular (built in 1911), with its distinctive red cars,...
In summer, when cows graze the mountain pastures, the cheese-maker himself/herself can be found making cheese over a wood fire each morning . The cheese is then aged for several months in the L'Etivaz cheese cellars, under the careful watch of the L'...
In summer, when cows graze the mountain pastures, the cheese-maker himself/herself can be found making cheese over a wood fire each morning . The cheese is then aged for several months in the L'Etivaz cheese cellars, under the careful watch of the L'...
In summer, when cows graze the mountain pastures, the cheese-maker himself/herself can be found making cheese over a wood fire each morning. The cheese is then aged for several months in the Tsintre cheese cellars in Charmey, under the careful watch ...
In summer, when cows graze the mountain pastures, the cheese-maker himself/herself can be found making cheese over a wood fire each morning. The cheese is then aged for several months in the Tsintre cheese cellars in Charmey, under the careful watch ...
In summer, when cows graze the mountain pastures, the cheese-maker himself/herself can be found making cheese over a wood fire each morning. The cheese is then aged for several months in the L'Etivaz cheese cellars, under the careful watch of the L'E...
The Jogne Gorge is a deep gash in the Earth sculpted by underground stream systems. The gorge links the Jogne Valley, at 800 m altitude, to the Sarine Valley, about 100 meters below. About 2 km long, the gorge is very narrow, with steep vertical side...
Two hotel rooms with two beds each in a villa built in 2012, with livingroom (TV/Wifi) and bathroom/shower. Large terrace with view of Fribourg Alps.
Location : 600 m from village center, 400 m from the bains de la Gruyère (thermal baths) and 1 km f...
This hiking trail showcases the important contribution of farming to this pre-Alpine landscape.
The agriculture trail has two signposted routes to choose from. The first leaves from Charmey museum, the second from the Charterhouse of La Valsainte.
The flora found along the Les Choucas botantical trail is typical of the western limestone Prealps, and includes a number of rare species, some of which are native to the region.
Four interpretive panels, positioned at the starting point of each leg...
This information point in the L’Étivaz visitor centre is given over entirely to the alpine economy: images, texts and maps guide you through a journey into the heart of mountain farming. The accompanying brochure has details of 15 different visits to...
This information point in the Les Mosses tourist office showcases 15 outstanding natural areas which bear witness to the birth of the Alps. All are within the Park’s perimeter and each one demonstrates the processes that have shaped, and continue to ...
A selection of leaflets and brochures are available at all information points. These feature all the latest news about the Park as well as activity ideas and listings.
A selection of leaflets and brochures are available at all information points. These feature all the latest news about the Park as well as activity ideas and listings.
The staff of the Pays-d'Enhaut Région are looking forward to meeting you at the Tourist Office to answer all your questions about your stay.
This information point in the laiterie fromagerie de Charmey visitor centre is given over entirely to the SUMMER-GRAZING SEASON
The destinations featured here will allow you to explore, at your own pace, the different facets of this age-old alpine f...
A selection of leaflets and brochures are available at all information points. These feature all the latest news about the Park as well as activity ideas and listings.
A selection of leaflets and brochures are available at all information points. These feature all the latest news about the Park as well as activity ideas and listings.
In 2009 the Les Moulins cheese dairy was threatened with closure. Pierre Buchillier, with the backing of local producers, came to its rescue, taking over the premises and its contents wholesale. He subsequently became an independent milk buyer with t...
When Fanny and Sébastien Henchoz took over the family farm, they decided to inject a new lease of life into the business by growing, harvesting and drying plants and herbs that harness the ancestral power of the mountains.
A carpenter and a herbalis...
In 1988, Michel Béroud and his wife Hélène took over the running of the Fleurette cheese dairy and, with it, the production of its signature product, the Tomme Fleurette. This soft rind cheese cemented its fine reputation when it was named best bloom...
The architecture of Grandvillard, which dates predominately from the 17th to 19th century, bears witness to the major contribution that cheesemaking made to the local alpine economy. Today, this remarkable stone and timber architectural ensemble is n...
Maurane and Malik Bajrami are famed for their delicious lamb meat products. On their sheep farm, at the entry to the Intyamon valley, the lambs are reared naturally on their mother’s milk.
Malik was 14 when he began keeping sheep. When he met his f...
The milk from dairy cows raised on the lush pastures of the Jogne valley is packed full of natural nutrients. So too are the products which are lovingly crafted from it.
The Charmey milk and cheese dairy uses this milk in its two flagship products, ...
It still has its original kitchen with hearth and open chimney, its wood-beam rooms, as well as a vast cheese cellar. The Etambeau chalet, located at 1000m altitude, was the permanent home of a farmer; a large barn/stable still shelters cows in wint...
In summer, when cows graze the mountain pastures, the cheese-maker himself/herself can be found making cheese over a wood fire each morning. The cheese is then aged for several months in the L'Etivaz cheese cellars, under the careful watch of the L'E...
In summer, when cows graze the mountain pastures, the cheese-maker himself/herself can be found making cheese over a wood fire each morning. The cheese is then aged for several months in the L'Etivaz cheese cellars, under the careful watch of the L'E...
In the canton of Fribourg there is almost one organised singer for every 35 inhabitants. This exceptional density can be explained by a centuries-old tradition firmly rooted in the region's history.
Although the choral movement has developed in all ...
Fabrice Isoz runs his dairy farm, La Ferme de la Sciaz, in La Lécherette situated at a lofty altitude of 1,450 metres in the commune of Château-d’Œx. Twenty or so cows provide the milk needed to make his speciality, Le Piat, a soft, washed-rind farmh...
All year round, Esther and Jean-Claude Ginier live and work on their family farm at La Comballaz, situated at an altitude of 1,400 metres.
In the summer, they take their 15 cows up to their mountain pastures in Sonnaz, overlooking Les Mosses. Every ...
The philosophy of Herbolanne (the patois word for medicinal plants, flowers, leaves and roots) can be summed up in three words: artisan, local and natural. This small family-run business, based between Rossinière and the hamlet of La Tine, produces e...
Joël and Estelle Mottier rear twenty or so suckler Angus cows on their organic farm, La Ferme des Châbles, in Les Moulins. The grass fodder harvested during the summer months at La Lécherette and Les Mosses keeps the herd well fed throughout winter. ...
Le Chalet is one of Château-d'Œx’s most popular tourist attractions. Its famed organic cheese, Le Chalet Bio, is made by heating milk from mountain farms in large vats over a wood fire. In the heart of the restaurant, the cheesemaker, dressed in trad...
The Alp cheesemaking season is short. Between April to October, alpine farmers make between two and three wheels of Alp cheese every day. The process involves heating milk in huge 800-litre capacity copper vats; twelve litres of milk are needed to ma...
Pascal Tercier has had a life-long passion for farming and livestock. Having worked on a series of mountain farms in his youth, the former lumberjack finally became master of his own 40-hectare farm, in Charmey, which also came with 160 hectares of m...
L’Etivaz AOP is made between 10 May and 10 October by 70 producers in their mountain farms across the Vaud Alps and Pre-Alps and situated at an altitude of between 1,000 and 2,000 metres. The cheese is made from milk delicately scented by the alpine ...
When Steeve Daenzer took over the family dairy farm in 2016, he decided to shift its core business to rearing suckler cows. He had long entertained the idea of offering customers a pasture-to-plate experience. In 2017, Steeve and his wife Caroline be...
The Delacombaz family, artisanal cheese-makers, run both the cheese factory and Montbovon grocery store which features local dairy products. Our cheese operation works with about 1 million kilos of milk from 9 community dairy farmers per year. This m...
Potag’Oex came to life in 2020. When Yaëlle lost her job in early 2020, she began plotting her comeback, this time as a market gardener. The timing could not have been better: some agricultural land in the village of Les Moulins had just become avail...
