Emmental Attractions

 
The Emmental (Emme valley), renowned for its cheese, is a fertile farming region extending east from Berne towards the Napf (1,408 m/4,620ft), with a characteristic way of life which was described in the works of the 19th C. novelist Jeremias Gotthelf (Albert Bitzius), who was pastor at Lützelflüh. Until about 1800 it was thought that good cheese could be made only from the milk of the Alps; but the first cheese dairies in the valleys were then established in the Emmental, and the excellent cheese produced there is now exported far and wide. A model Emmentaler cheese dairy has been opened in Affoltern.

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