Mount Cervino and Breuil-Cervinia, Italy

Matterhorn, 4,478 m (14,692 ft) high, is the third high mount in Italy and has another name in Italian, Cervino. If you travel with a car and want to visit this place, you have to remember the Italian name because the road signs you will see everywhere are written in Italian: the road name is Cervinia and you have to be very careful to find it when you reach the village Chatillion in Valle D'Aosta.

I came there in October, 20, and the village was empty and quiet. The new touristic season had to begin on Oct. 27. I even could not find an open supermarket to take something for a little "pick-nick" on my way home.

The main entertainments are for the skiers here, but if you love the wild nature, it's an excellent place for hikers and those who love relaxation and silence. Nature is wonderful there and there are many wild animals in the mountains. They know, nobody will hurt them. So, it's possible to see them really very near specially if you walk at feet. One friend, a hunter, told me there are only some species they can hunt. And we even could see one of them, a chamois, but it was very far from us.

From my perspective, the other interesting peculiarity of these mountains are the lakes. There are so many of them everywhere, and you can find them even at a very high altitude.

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