Graubünden: Places to Explore

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more

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... Read more