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  • "It has been a complete nightmare," said Mark Butler, a 30-year-old resident of Bristol, England, who, with his family of three, spent the New Year holiday in Klosters — Prince Charles' preferred ski resort — in the canton of Grison in eastern Switzerland.

    Swiss Franc's Climb Puts a Chill on Tourism Goran Mijuk 2011

  • I added a glass of red wine from the Veltlin, a region that today belongs to Italy but once was part of Grison.

    Meat of the Mountains 2008

  • Renato Giovanoli produces Bündnerfleisch in the canton of Grison.

    Meat of the Mountains 2008

  • Each maker uses a different, secret herb mixture, and only Grison makers can term their product Bündnerfleisch.

    Meat of the Mountains 2008

  • Chur, Switzerland Switzerland is known for its cheese and milk chocolate, but for those who have tried it, the country's Bündnerfleisch is worth a trip to the Alpine canton of Grison, where the air-dried beef is exclusively made.

    Meat of the Mountains 2008

  • Bündnerfleisch has been a favorite of mine since childhood, but the supermarket, factory-produced varieties available around Europe have little to do with the true, hand-made artisanal product found in Grison.

    Meat of the Mountains 2008

  • Comme toute bonne sorcière, Carmen possède son crapaud, Jules, et son chat noir, Grison.

    Carmen : The Last Witch Christopher 2007

  • Like all good witches, Carmen has her toad, Jules, and her black cat, Grison.

    Carmen : The Last Witch Christopher 2007

  • Emily turned her eyes with a sigh from these painful vestiges of contention, to the Alps of the Grison, that overlooked them to the north, whose awful solitudes seemed to offer to persecuted man a secure asylum.

    The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

  • Grison stones, one chip whereof splintering abroad cut off

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

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