Walser trails

Walserwege are footpaths between the villages of the Walser people who settled the upper ends of numerous Alpine valleys in the 13th and 14th centuries, from the Aosta Valley to Tyrol . Before motor vehicles became more widespread, these paths, often leading over high mountain saddles, were the shortest and fastest connection between the various high valleys. But many were not even suitable as mule tracks for pack animals. The connection of the Walser settlements with lower elevations of the same valley was for the most part no more than a mule track. The total length of the Walser trails should be around 1000 km.

Nowadays these paths are used for tourism. In 2010, the Walserweg Graubünden was set up as a combination of several paths originally used for communication between neighboring locations . It should grow together with the Walser trails in Vorarlberg and Northern Italy to form a large Walser trail.

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• Helmut Tiefenthaler: Vorarlberger Walserwege (PDF; 877 kB), including overview maps of the entire Walser area
• Stefan Heim: The great Walser Trail

literature

• Roland Baumgartner: The great Walserweg - Il grande sentiero Walser (Swiss Traffic Center, ed. 1989)
• Bernhard Irlinger: The great Walserweg
• Irene Schuler: Walserweg Graubünden
• Stefan Heim: Walserweg Vorarlberg , Tyrolia-Verlag
• Hans Hönl: Hiking Guide Switzerland: Walserweg