Sharing with you a card from Dominik of Switzerland, he send me this traditional village from Ticino---the Italian speaking part of Switzerland. He said that if a classical wooden chalets are quite common on the north side of the Alps, the south side rather has such stone houses.

Canton Ticino or Ticino is the southernmost canton of Switzerland. Named after the Ticino river, it is the only canton in which Italian is the sole official language. Ticino borders the Canton of Uri to the north, Valais to the west (through the Novena Pass), Graubünden to the northeast, Italy's regions of Piedmont and Lombardy to the south and it surrounds the small Italian exclave of Campione d'Italia. Together with areas of the canton of Graubünden it makes up the so-called Italian Switzerland.

For more information about Ticino, you can go HERE, and it comes with a beautiful stamp.