Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Canton of Valais
Detourmap lists 295 places in Canton of Valais, Switzerland, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Matterhorn. 102 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 295
- Oldest
- Grotte aux Fées 1890
- Little known
- 102 of 295
- Share of Switzerland
- 27%
Canton of Valais 295
The 120 best known of 295. The other 175 are on the map and on the Switzerland pages.
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1.Matterhorn
Nature · Iconic
Mountain in the Pennine Alps on the border between Switzerland and Italy
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2.Jungfrau
Nature · Renowned
One of the main summits of the Bernese Alps in Switzerland (4,158m / 13,642 ft)
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8.Finsteraarhorn
Nature · Renowned
Highest mountain of the Bernese Alps at the border of Berne and Valais in Switzerland
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20.Grimsel Pass
Nature · Notable
Mountain pass across the Bernese Alps in Switzerland, between the Rhone valley and the Haslital
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32.Dammastock
Nature · Notable
Mountain of the Uri Alps at the border of Uri and Valais in Switzerland
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52.Nufenen Pass
Nature · Notable
Mountain pass in Switzerland linking the cantons of Valais and Ticino
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74.Saint-Léonard underground lake
Nature · Notable
Lake in Saint-Léonard in the canton of Valais, Switzerland
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89.Oberaarhorn
Nature · Notable
Mountain of the Bernese Alps at the border of Berne and Valais in Switzerland
Elsewhere in Switzerland
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Canton of Valais?
Matterhorn. Mountain in the Pennine Alps on the border between Switzerland and Italy. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Canton of Valais?
295: 290 nature & landscapes and 5 archaeological & historic sites. 102 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Canton of Valais?
Grotte aux Fées, dated to 1890. 1 of the 295 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Canton of Valais here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Canton of Valais if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Canton of Valais is a first-level division of Switzerland, the same level as a state or a province.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.