Rhein-Reuss-Rhôneweg: Sion - Saillon

Medium
22.5 km
6:20 h
528 mhd
518 mhd
Kapelle St. Laurent und Saillon
Sion: Blick von Valeria auf Kathedrale

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Sion: Steinzeitgrab "Petit Chasseur"
The Rhine-Reuss-Rhône Way connects the Graubünden Surselva to the vicinity of Lake Geneva. From the beginning in Disentis over the passes Oberalp and Furka to the Valais Goms we were in the mountains at over 1000 m on the way, but we have now that behind us.
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Fitness 3/6
Highest Point  662 m
Lowest Point  470 m
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Start
Sion at the train station
Destination
Saillon in the town centre
Coordinates
46.227615, 7.359133

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Description

Leaving Sion, we take a look at a four-and-a-half-thousand-year-old tomb behind the schoolhouse on Rue-du-Petit-Chasseur. On this stage we usually move on the «Chemin du Vignoble No. 36». Crossing the Morge, we realize that the area below this tributary was a subject of the Upper Valais for three hundred years. In St. Pierre de Clages we find an archaic Romanesque church with an octagonal tower. In the small, pretty medieval village of Saillon on the hill, the pilgrims found shelter from robbers and natural hazards in the St. James Hospice. The street that opens the old village centre of Saillon to the west is also called Rue St. Jacques. And further up the mountain is the smallest vineyard in the world, which belongs to the Dalai Lama. The sale of the wine – of course "stretched" with top wine from the region to 1000 bottles a year – benefits children's charities.

Geheimtipp

Almost every half hour we are near a public bus station.

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