Bernina treasure

Rhaetian Railway gains World Heritage status.

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A documentary and animation filmmaker from Bern, Michele studied film at Zurich University of the Arts. He's been a swissinfo.ch video journalist since 2004 and has a special interest in developing new video formats for mobile viewing, mixing animation and documentary styles.

The Rhaetian Railway in the Albula/Bernina Cultural Landscape is an engineering marvel of stone viaducts and loops crossing two alpine passes and connecting Switzerland with Italy. It has become a Unesco World Heritage site (swissinfo, Michele Andina)

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