Fiesch is a municipality in the district of Goms in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Nearby Fiescheralp is administered by Fiesch and is accessible by the Eggishorn lift.
It has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage site for its view of the Jungfrau-Aletsch Protected Area.
Fiesch has an area, as of 2011[update], of 11.3 square kilometers (4.4 sq mi).
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure, a fess wavy Argent in base Coupeaux of the same.
[4] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (872 or 87.6%) as their first language, Serbo-Croatian is the second most common (87 or 8.7%) and Albanian is the third (13 or 1.3%).
[4] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][11] Fiesch is twinned with the town of Neufra, Germany.
In the federal election, a total of 356 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 50.6%.
[14] In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election a total of 356 votes were cast, of which 7 or about 2.0% were invalid.
Above Fiesch, in the Fiescheralp (previously referred to as Kühboden), there is a ski resort and a launch point for hang glider and paraglider pilots.
In the tertiary sector; 84 or 18.6% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 55 or 12.2% were in the movement and storage of goods, 119 or 26.3% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was in the information industry, 18 or 4.0% were the insurance or financial industry, 9 or 2.0% were technical professionals or scientists, 4 or 0.9% were in education and 80 or 17.7% were in health care.
[4] From the 2000 census[update], 804 or 80.7% were Roman Catholic, while 60 or 6.0% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.
The education system in the Canton of Valais allows young children to attend one year of non-obligatory Kindergarten.
[20] Fiesch is served by the following transport connections: From the village one cable car brings you to Fiescheralp.
This new cable car starts directly at the train station and has been opened in 2019.