The Jungfrau view
The view you know from Interlaken's photographs, whole, with no cables or rooflines across it.
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No. The meadow is not a destination in itself but a view you pass through. Twenty minutes is enough to walk across it and stand in the middle for the photograph. The exception is sitting to watch the paragliders, in which case stay as long as you like.
Early morning as a rule. In summer, haze and cloud build on the peaks through the afternoon, so the Jungfrau disappears or shows only in part. If the morning is clear, do not put it off.
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An open grass meadow lying in the exact centre of Interlaken, between the two railway stations, occupying what could have been the most valuable building land in town. It stayed empty because of an old decision: townspeople bought the land in the nineteenth century and agreed to bar building on it forever, to protect the view. The result is that Interlaken is close to the only resort town in the region where the mountain view was never walled off by a row of hotels. What you see from here is the Jungfrau to the south, the view you know from every photograph of Interlaken. Standing in the middle of the meadow gives you the whole of it, with no cables and no rooflines. The meadow is also a landing ground for paragliders coming down off the surrounding mountains, and watching them touch down one after another is part of the atmosphere on any clear afternoon.
The view you know from Interlaken's photographs, whole, with no cables or rooflines across it.
A nineteenth-century decision kept the town's most valuable land deliberately empty.
Paragliders come off the mountains and land here through any clear afternoon.
The Höhematte, between Interlaken Ost and West stations