Switzerland

Four national languages, twenty-six cantons, and an Alpine spine running through all of it. Switzerland moves by rail and lake steamer between the Matterhorn at Zermatt, the Engadine slopes of St. Moritz, and the chalets of Gstaad and Verbier. Lucerne, Lugano, Zurich, and Geneva anchor the lowlands, each of them within a few hours of the last by train.