In the southern Ticino canton, plans to replicate the success of Swiss National Park are well advanced.

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Inside the Swiss National Park, the Hotel Parc Naziunal Il Fuorn is one place to hear the language in action.

BBC: The Swiss train tourists don??t take

Its six villages are cut off from the rest of the country, except for a single mountain road that runs through a broad belt of virgin forest that forms part of the Swiss National Park.

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