Location: Saas Fee in Switzerland
Nearest Airport: Geneva
at 180
Kilometres
Car: not necessary
Saas-Fee, Pearl of the Alps. Pearls are valuable. Pearls are much sought-after. And such a pearl exists amidst the highest mountains in the Swiss Alps: Saas-Fee and the Saas Valley. 13 four-thousand-metre peaks protect Saas-Fee and the neighbouring communities of Saas-Grund, Saas-Almagell and Saas-Balen like a shell. They give the valley the distinctive name 'the Pearl of the Alps'. Saas-Fee itself is car-free but it can be reached easily by car or public transport. It has an amazing average of 300 sunny days per year. For those who seek apres-ski and night-life, Saas-Fee has it all.
Carl Zuckmayer, the German author and honorary citizen of Saas-Fee, chose to make Saas-Fee his home: 'Every day I don't spend here in Saas-Fee is only half a day for me. My life is only complete here.