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The lakes of the upper Engadine and the town of St. Moritz. The Engadin or Engadine (Romansh: Engiadina ⓘ; [note 1] German: Engadin ⓘ; Italian: Engadina; French: Engadine) is a long high Alpine valley region in the eastern Swiss Alps in the canton of Graubünden in southeasternmost Switzerland with about 25,000 inhabitants.
Engiadiana is a World Cup ski course in Switzerland at St. Moritz, Grisons, located in the Engadin valley on Piz Nair mountain in the Albula Alps. [1] [2] [3]It is adjacent to the older and more famous men's "Corviglia" speed events course, which hosted the Winter Olympics in 1948 and several World Championships.
Samedan Airport [a] (IATA: SMV, ICAO: LSZS), also known as Engadin Airport, [b] is a regional airport in Samedan in the Engadin valley of Switzerland, 5 km from St. Moritz. History [ edit ]
St. Moritz (/ ˌ s æ n m ə ˈ r ɪ t s / SAN mə-RITS, US also / ˌ s eɪ n t-/ SAYNT-, UK also / s ən t ˈ m ɒr ɪ t s / sənt MORR-its; German, in full: Sankt Moritz [zaŋkt moˈrɪts, ˈmoːrɪts] locally; Romansh: San Murezzan [sam muˈʁetsən] ⓘ; Italian: San Maurizio; [a] French: Saint-Moritz) is a high Alpine resort town in the Engadine in Switzerland, at an elevation of about ...
The Maloja Palace is a hotel 15 km (9.3 mi) from St Moritz, in the Graubünden canton of Switzerland, at the top of the Maloja Pass (Italian: Passo del Maloja, German: Malojapass) (el. 1815 m.) linking the Engadin and the Bregell valley, very close to the village of Maloja, a hamlet in the municipality of Bregaglia in the Maloja Region.
Lake St. Moritz (German: St. Moritzersee; Romansh: Lej da San Murezzan) is a lake at St. Moritz, Switzerland. With a surface of 0.78 km 2, it is smaller than the main lakes of the Upper Engadin valley (Lake Sils, Lake Silvaplana). Every January or early February, Polo matches are held on the lake.
St. Moritz railway station is a railway station in the resort town of St. Moritz, in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. It is the southern terminus of the Albula Railway line from Chur, and a northern terminus for the Bernina Railway line from Tirano in Italy. [1] The station also serves as a terminus for local bus and Postbus services.
It connects the famous resort town of St. Moritz in the Engadin valley with the Italian-speaking Val Poschiavo, which ends in the Italian town of Tirano in Valtellina. The pass lies a few kilometres east of Piz Bernina , and south of Val Minor .