Once the red saffron threads are hanging from the flower, it’s time to harvest.

Flowers of saffron ready to be harvested on one of the numerous fields in Mund.

For one gram of saffron 130 flowers with 390 saffron threads are required.

In Mund the saffron flowers are still harvested by hand.

A bee gets to the pollination of flowers of saffron.

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Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch

Saffron Thematic Trail

Did you know why the saffron from Mund is more valuable than gold? And how it was smuggled, according to a legend, in a curious way to Mund? The answers to these and many other exciting questions, you get on the saffron thematic trail in Mund.

Provider

Safranzunft Mund
Jeitziner Paula

+41 27 923 50 08

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Journey

to Mund, Dorf
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Walking in the footsteps of the Alpine farmers

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Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch medium
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Return trip

from Brig