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With just 12 inhabitants, Corippo is the smallest municipality in Switzerland. / Photo via Wikimedia Commons

Why one Swiss village could become the country’s first community-wide resort

by Andrew Manns | 09 Oct 2018

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Corippo, a 200-hundred-year-old village located in the Verzasca valley, is undergoing a transformation which could see it become the first albergo diffuso (“scattered hotel”) in Switzerland. Scattered hotels are effectively regenerated municipalities, endangered districts which get a new lease on life by becoming interactive, multi-venue destinations for travellers interested in full-scale immersion tourism. The plan to save the highland hamlet, the population of which has been diminishing exponentially for half

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