The hills roll rather than rise, the fields seem drawn rather than planted, and the villages lie low in the landscape as if placed there by instinct. This is not a place of grandeur, but of quiet ...

The memory of one of my earliest visits to Appenzell is a vivid one: I was joining the local crowd in their Saturday-evening get-together, huddled around small tables in a tiny mountain hut that hangs ...

I’m high in the Swiss Alps in a tiny mountain hut on a perch called Ebenalp. Here, a spry grandpa in a sweater as worn as his face pulls a wide-eyed child onto his lap to teach him to drum with old ...

APPENZELL, Switzerland (Reuters) - Hikers will no longer be able to stroll naked through the idylic Alpine countryside of Appenzell Innerrhoden after the conservative Swiss canton banned nude walking ...

Exterior of Huus Quell in Gonten, Switzerland. You may not have visited, or even heard of, Switzerland’s Appenzell. But if you’ve ever glimpsed a quintessential Swiss landscape—the rolling verdant ...