Vättis

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General information

The mountain village of Vättis (950m above sealevel) has about 400 inhabitants. It is situated in the Tamina-valley at the junction with the Calfeisen-valley, a large nature-reserve on the border of the Swiss cantons (provinces) of St. Gallen and Grisons.

Vättis has its own website .

Art and Crafts in and around Vättis

The people of Vättis have a longstanding tradition in art and craftsmanship. Visitors to the village have long enjoyed close contact with local artists and artisans, and the opportunity to see their work and craftsmanship at first hand. For example, Erhard and Rosemarie Fappani are a couple well-known as painters. Stephan Gort is a wood sculptor who organised the wood sculpting symposium in 2005, and designed the Kulturbrücke. Other works of his can be found here and there in the village. Offizin Parnassia keeps alive traditional hand typesetting, linotype printing, lithography and book-binding, while the art of stone sculpture can be seen in both the permanent exhibition along the Vättis Sculpture Path and in the workshop of Gyelt Tuinstra, himself a sculptor in stone, who was its principal organiser.