An insider guide to Carona, Meret Oppenheim’s creative refuge

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My connection to Carona goes back more than a century. It begins with my great-grandfather, Theo Wenger, a pastor-turned-knife manufacturer who started the Wenger factory that is now owned by Victorinox. In 1917 he bought Casa Costanza as a holiday home in the medieval village’s main piazza. It later became home to my grandparents when they fled Nazi Germany, then…