Swiss Smilestones

3 January 2024

One of the latest Swiss attractions is close to one of the older miracles of nature: the Rhine Falls (Rheinfall). Europe’s biggest fall was created 120 000 years ago by the glaciers. This phenomenon can now be admired in Switzerland’s largest indoor miniature world.

The mountainous Berner Oberland and the eastern part of the country are on display already. Interlaken, the Jungfrau, Eiger, Mönch and the Kleine Scheidegg, the Matterhorn, the Appenzeller Land, the Säntis mountains and many other locations are on show, not as dead miniatures but embedded in moving train- and car traffic, helicopters, cities, villages, woods, lakes, rivers cows and people.

Smilestones, the name of this miniature world, is indeed made with a smile and numerous (and humorous) details. The real Rhine Falls are just a few hundred meters away, and one can see the likeness between the miniature and the real world.

(Source Swiss Smilestones, Neuhausen, www.smilestones.ch).