During our wanderings through this region of Switzerland, we also reached the Basilica of Valère in Sion, a fortified Romanesque‑Gothic church famous both for its spectacular position on Valère Hill and for housing the oldest functioning organ in the world, dating back to the 1430s. Built almost nine centuries ago by the city’s canons, the …
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