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Nowhere is it easier to get an impression of life as it would have been for a 19th century tourist in Switzerland than by visiting a grand hotel built to accommodate them.

They were built in some of the most likely of places like Interlaken, and some of the more unlikely, like the top of Mount Rigi.

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