The cantonal government of Bern expects up to 30,000 refugees from Ukraine to arrive in the canton by the end of the year. While the wave of solidarity has long since swept through the Saanenland, there is not yet much sign of official refugees.
The students of the John F. Kennedy International School made a statement with a fundraising campaign for war refugees that included all from collection to delivery on site.
20 years ago, on 22 March 2002, Jean-Louis Gétaz died in Riaz FR.
The Sporthilfe Young Talent Award has been considered one of the most important awards in young sport since 1981. The online voting is open until 27 March.
After numerous top ten results in the European Cup slalom races, Noel von Grünigen from Schönried finishes in a sensational second place and thus secures a fixed slot in the World Cup next season.
The snowmaking system on the ski slopes in the West Sector is being renovated and modernised. The first stage will be work on the Rougemont-Videmanette section. The canton of Vaud is contributing around CHF 2m.
He tinkers with new methods and subjects: Marc Schweizer is exhibiting a few of his remarkable découpages at the Hüsy Gallery-Restaurant in Blankenburg.
At the general meeting of Gstaad Saanenland Tourismus, the voters unanimously elected Heidi Schopfer to the board and Tom Schild to the audit committee. The current information on the dissolution of Gstaad Marketing GmbH was taken note of without any requests to speak.
I adore jigsaw puzzles. I can lose myself in them, spending hours utterly absorbed as the image reveals itself piece by piece by piece. Years before we moved to the Saanenland I was given a large puzzle of a Swiss chalet.
While auctioneers Christie’s and Sotheby’s flogged the collections of Elizabeth Taylor and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis after their deaths, watches identical to theirs were reissued recently both by Piaget to unbridled success.
With redolent traces of Valentine’s Day lingering in the air, chalet hearths teeming with still-warm embers, and posh boutiques nearly bereft of bijoux, the answer seems self-evident. But is the Saanenland Romantic?
Twenty years ago Caroline Freymond moved to Gstaad and established Menus Plaisirs – part gallery, part shop – right at the start of the art scene in the region.
After it was cancelled last year, The Alpina Cup took place again this year. The organisers went for an all outdoors variety of the contest dueto the ongoing pandemic. At the ninth edition, the Gstaad team prevailed over the Le Rosey team in the ski race and the hockey match.
The Gstaad Palace will once again welcome a film crew. This time it will be the setting for Roman Polanski’s new film The Palace. The film, a satire on the life of the rich and beautiful, will be shot from mid-March to the end of May.