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Grandhotel Giessbach - Turrets, Waterfalls and Three Million Francs: A Swiss Fairy Tale

High above Lake Brienz, where waterfalls crash down mountainsides and the sound of rushing water mingles with the rattle of Europe's oldest funicular railway, sits a hotel that nearly became a car park. Well, not quite a car park, but something almost as tragic: a concrete "jumbo chalet" complex that …