![The former Walser settlement of Sapün, below Arosa GR.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/sapun-schmitten-300x225.jpg)
The Walser Migrations
The Walsers migrated outwards to settle and tame uncultivated pastures in the harsh high altitudes of the Alps between c. 1150-1450. This migration represents one of the last great movements of peoples during the Middle Ages, and the legacy of Walser resourcefulness still looms large in Swiss culture.
![People fleeing an avalanche, woodcut in a wall calendar from 1721.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/menschen-fliehen-vor-einer-lawine-holzschnitt-in-einem-wandkalender-von-1721-300x240.jpg)
Äss ischt kchei Vogil no so hoo gflogu, är hei nit Bodo bizogu.
![Proven (dark arrows) and suspected (light arrows) migrations of the Walsers in the 13th and 14th centuries.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/wawalser-wanderungen-titel-300x225.jpg)
![Undated illustration of a Walser march across the Alps.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/undatierte-illustration-eines-sogenannten-walserzugs-uber-die-alpen-300x245.jpg)
Weer fer as güets Woort nit tüet, dem geits säältu' güet.
![View of the Walser village of Bosco Gurin TI, around 1935.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/ansicht-des-walserdorfs-bosco-gurin-ti-um-1935-gbe-129460-lm-112521-300x204.jpg)
Walser Traditions and Legacies
![Walser house in the village square of Vals GR.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/walserhaus-vals-300x211.jpg)
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This is how the Walser dialect was spoken in Upper Italy a hundred years ago: "Die lustige Fasnacht", narrated by Gaspare Pala, farmer and mountain guide from Macugnaga (Piedmont), 1929. walsermuseum.ch
We mu de Liit der chlei Finger git, welluntsch di ganzi Hant.