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Hotel Maloja Palace. Maloja (Romansh: Malögia) is a village in the Swiss canton of Grisons. It is part of the municipality of Bregaglia. [1] It is located at the western end of Lake Sils, near the summit of the Maloja Pass. Since 1884 it boasts the luxury hotel Maloja Palace.
Maloja Pass road. Maloja Pass (Italian: Passo del Maloja, German: Malojapass) (1815m a.s.l.) is a high mountain pass in the Swiss Alps in the canton of Graubünden, linking the Engadine with the Val Bregaglia, still in Switzerland and Chiavenna in Italy. It marks the divide between the Danube and Po watersheds. Lägh da Bitabergh is near the ...
Maloja, View northeast towards Upper Engadin. Maloja Region is one of the eleven administrative districts in the canton of Grisons in Switzerland. It has an area of 973.65 square kilometers (375.93 sq mi) and a population of 18,294 (as of 31 December 2020). [1] It was created on 1 January 2017 as part of a reorganization of the Canton. [2]
Zuoz is first mentioned about 840 as Zuzes. [3] Historically, Zuoz was the political center of the upper Engadin. It was the seat of the local bishop. But, it has long ago been supplanted by other Engadin villages such as St. Moritz and Samedan.
The National Maps of Switzerland, also referred to as the Swisstopo maps, are a set of official map series designed, edited and distributed by Swisstopo, the Swiss Federal Office of Topography. Each map series is based on an oblique, conformal , cylindrical projection ( Mercator projection ), with a Swiss Coordinate system ( CH1903 + ).
The municipality's official label uses both the German and the Romansh versions of its name: Segl is the Romansh version while Sils im Engadin is the German. Engadin is Romansh for "Valley of the Inn (Romansh: En)", the river, which flows northeast from Maloja through Sils Baselgia and eventually into the Danube at Passau, Germany at the German-Austrian border.
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