{"id":95062,"date":"2026-07-01T05:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T05:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/95062\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T05:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T05:25:11","slug":"legendary-st-bernard-rescue-dogs-still-roam-the-swiss-alps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/95062\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary St. Bernard rescue dogs still roam the Swiss Alps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The iconic St. Bernard dogs are still roaming the Alpine trails where they built their legendary reputation as mountain rescuers centuries ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At the Great St. Bernard Pass on the Swiss-Italian border, the Barry Foundation now cares for 32 dogs, preserving the historic breed while supporting animal-assisted visits to hospitals, schools and care homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Meanwhile, Barryland, the world&#8217;s only theme park dedicated to St. Bernards, is celebrating its first anniversary after welcoming around 135,000 visitors in its first year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The park showcases the breed&#8217;s rescue history through interactive exhibits while helping preserve one of Switzerland&#8217;s best-known national symbols.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Watch the video for the full story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The iconic St. Bernard dogs are still roaming the Alpine trails where they built their legendary reputation as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[16],"tags":[50,47429,47428,47431,47432,47430],"class_list":["post-95062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alps","tag-alps","tag-barry-foundation","tag-legendary-reputation","tag-rescue-history","tag-st-bernard","tag-swiss-italian-border"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116843061189554677","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}