Four Lakes Hike Switzerland: The world's most beautiful walking trail

By Keith Austin
Updated February 13 2017 - 11:14am, first published 10:00am
Switzerland Hike. Photo: iStock
Switzerland Hike. Photo: iStock
Lake Trubsee: Picture-postcard perfect. Photo: iStock
Lake Trubsee: Picture-postcard perfect. Photo: iStock
Cablecars, Switzerland. Photo: Keith Austin
Cablecars, Switzerland. Photo: Keith Austin
Even the cows are extra beautiful. Photo: iStock
Even the cows are extra beautiful. Photo: iStock

There is a condition known as Stendhal Syndrome which may or may not exist. It was named after the 19th-century French author and purportedly describes being so overwhelmed by beauty as to be in danger of fainting. In Florence, in 1817, Stendhal visited the Basilica of Santa Croce where he saw Giotto's frescoes for the first time and afterwards wrote that he was "in a sort of ecstasy … absorbed in the contemplation of sublime beauty … I had palpitations of the heart … I walked with the fear of falling".

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