Went this afternoon to the little village of Falera, a neolithic site which has also long been the site of a church. It's a place whose special energy I remember fondly from the last time I was here four years ago; it's beloved of Swiss New Agers too, apparently, who find it a place of enduring power. There is a tangle of smallish megaliths and menhirs, which line up to define the start and end of farmer's winter, as well
as other movements of sun and moon, but Falera's best known prehistoric carving is the figure above. 3500 years old and still smiling! The little church of Saint Remigius - gothic but with baroque fixings, and missals in Switzerland's fourth language, Rumantsch - is charming, too.
Went this afternoon to the little village of Falera, a neolithic site which has also long been the site of a church. It's a place whose special energy I remember fondly from the last time I was here four years ago; it's beloved of Swiss New Agers too, apparently, who find it a place of enduring power. There is a tangle of smallish megaliths and menhirs, which line up to define the start and end of farmer's winter, as well
as other movements of sun and moon, but Falera's best known prehistoric carving is the figure above. 3500 years old and still smiling! The little church of Saint Remigius - gothic but with baroque fixings, and missals in Switzerland's fourth language, Rumantsch - is charming, too.