Places to Explore

• Arosa

  Thanks to its altitude of 5,900 feet, Arosa is a well-known year-round sports center, offering brisk hiking, paragliding, and other activities in summer, and a long skiing or snowboarding season with a... (more)

• Chur

  A small city of 35,000, with a modern downtown and a busy rail crossroad, the cantonal capital is the oldest continuously settled site north of the Alps. Discoveries of Stone Age tools place Chur's origins... (more)

• Davos

  At 5,116 feet, this highest "city" (stretching the definition) in Europe is good for cold-weather sports even in the soggiest of winters. Davos is famous for its ice sports and skiing, and almost more... (more)

• Guarda

  The former main road through the Inn valley (Engadine) was higher up on the slopes than today's road. It passed through Guarda, one of a pleasant chain of small villages that includes Ardez and Ftan. Each... (more)

• Klosters

  At one time simply a group of hamlets, Klosters has become a small but chic resort, made up mostly of weathered-wood and white-stucco chalets. Author Peter Viertel and his wife, actress Deborah Kerr, made... (more)

• Maienfeld

  Above this graceful little village full of fountains, vineyards, and old stucco houses, the Zürich author Johanna Spyri set Heidi, the much-loved children's story of an orphan growing up with her... (more)

• Parc Naziunal Svizzer

  The Swiss National Park is a magnificent federal preserve of virtually virgin wilderness.... (more)

• Pontresina

  On a south-facing shelf along the Flaz Valley, Pontresina is a beautiful resort town. It grew by converting its farmhouses to pensions and hotels for use by summer tourists. Today its climbing school has... (more)

• Scuol and Tarasp-Vulpera

  The villages of Scuol and Tarasp-Vulpera effectively form one big resort. The area owes its popularity to the 20 mineral springs (traditionally used for liver cures), the beautiful surroundings (mountains... (more)

• St. Moritz

  Who put the ritz in St. Moritz? What makes St. Moritz's reputation is the people who go there and who have been going there, generation after generation, since 1864, when hotelier Johannes Badrutt dared... (more)

• Zernez

  This friendly little crossroads, the last town before the higher valley of the Inn, lies along the route over the Ofen Pass to the Val Müstair and Italy. Serious hikers sporting loden hats, knickers... (more)