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There are few settings on earth as sensational and exclusive as Gstaad, a fairy tale luxury town set in the center of the Swiss Alps. The town of Gstaad is a picture perfect luxury alpine town, with a walkway and a number of the world's most exclusive luxury shopping boutiques, expanding into a lazy stretch of picturesque chalets and distinguished Hotels, of which the luxury Palace Hotel is the most famous and world famous.
It is one of the principal skiing holiday destinations in Switzerland and boasts some of the best night life and eating experiences not just in the Alps but in the world at large. It is a place of romance and legendary luxury and has an inhabitant list to show for it. In fact,most of the Crowned Heads of Europe have typically owned a holiday home in Gstaad along with numerous stars of stage and screen as well as a long list of the world's most influential enterprise world leaders.
There are many superb luxury chalets dotted throughout Gstaad and the surrounding areas. Take a walk along the attractive promenande, at night the promenade takes on a fairytale look when lit up with lights found in the eves of the chalets.
Gstaad has forever attracted the very best and the brightest of the globe, and to cite the many names of the notorious guests of the Saanenland would be extremely inappropriate for the total comfort and the obscurity of the residents of the luxury chalets is a sensitive nature and is very much sheltered by the neighborhood stores and hoteliers. Gstaad also has its portion of cultural magnitude being a luxury residence of such artists as Yehudi Menuhin, the Virtuoso and the composer Benjamin Britten, as along with the famous director Roman Polanski. To reflect this cultural heritage Gstaad holds an annual classical music festival named after the late Menuhin, which is at the present considered being one of the very best of its class in the world.
Gstaad is that kind of resort where the wealthy and well-known rub shoulders with each other and the sophistication that has grown up around such people is of course one of acute luxury. Its hospitality culture is illustrious in the world, it is above and beyond Rodeo Drive, Mayfair or any other such spot.
It boasts the very best luxury Hotels and Dining places, and Nightlife is hard to beat. And of course if you tire of all of that, there is always the skiing.
