{"id":933,"date":"2026-06-07T17:29:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T15:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/item\/st-moritz-engadin\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T11:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T09:04:10","slug":"st-moritz-engadin","status":"publish","type":"citadela-item","link":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/item\/st-moritz-engadin\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Moritz &#038; Upper Engadin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size:1.15em;line-height:1.6;color:#3a352f;\">St. Moritz in the Upper Engadin is regarded as the cradle of alpine winter tourism, which began here in 1864, and twice hosted the Olympic Winter Games (1928 and 1948). The fashionable high-altitude resort at 1,822 m lies on a chain of turquoise Engadin lakes before the Bernina massif and is known for its exceptionally sunny, dry climate.<\/p>\n<h2>Highlights<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Engadin lake plateau with the St. Moritz lake and Lake Sils<\/li>\n<li>The Bernina massif as a backdrop<\/li>\n<li>Mineral springs and tradition as a health resort<\/li>\n<li>Starting point for the Bernina Express and Diavolezza<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Good to know<\/h2>\n<table class=\"at-vergleich\" style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:14px;\">\n<tr style=\"background:#ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;width:34%;font-weight:600;\">Elevation<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;\">1,822 m<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#fafaf8;\">\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;width:34%;font-weight:600;\">History<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;\">Start of winter tourism in 1864<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;width:34%;font-weight:600;\">Olympics<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;\">Winter Games 1928 and 1948<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#fafaf8;\">\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;width:34%;font-weight:600;\">Region<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:8px;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;\">Upper Engadin, Grisons<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<h2>Practical info<\/h2>\n<div style=\"background:#f3f1ec;border:1px solid #e3e0d8;border-radius:10px;padding:18px 20px;\">\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0;line-height:1.55;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Getting there:<\/strong> With the Rhaetian Railway over the Albula line (UNESCO) to St. Moritz; by car over the Julier or Maloja pass.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0;line-height:1.55;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Best time:<\/strong> Winter sports December to April; hiking and sailing on the lakes June to October.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0;line-height:1.55;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Cost:<\/strong> Town free; mountain railways, train and accommodation at an upscale price level (please verify).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0;line-height:1.55;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Safety:<\/strong> In winter mind the avalanche situation; account for the altitude during exertion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:12px 0 4px;\"><strong style=\"color:#f25353;\">Tips:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top:0;\">\n<li>The Maloja wind provides ideal conditions for sailing and surfing in the afternoon<\/li>\n<li>Diavolezza and Muottas Muragl offer the finest Bernina views<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Background &amp; History<\/h2>\n<p>High in the Upper Engadine, set at over 1,800 metres in a sun-blessed landscape of lakes, St. Moritz is regarded as the cradle of alpine winter tourism. The town's iron-rich mineral springs were already known in antiquity, yet St. Moritz only became a legend when, in the winter of 1864, a hotelier persuaded English summer guests with a wager to spend the cold season in the mountains. From this idea grew an elegant spa resort that twice hosted the Olympic Winter Games and whose name stands to this day for fashionable splendour.<\/p>\n<p>The Engadine itself is a world of its own. Here Romansh is spoken, an old Rhaeto-Romanic language, and the villages, with their thick walls, deep-set windows and the sgraffito decorations artfully scratched into the plaster, preserve an unmistakable character. Over the nearby Maloja Pass the valley opens southwards towards the light-flooded Bregaglia, a threshold between the alpine and the Mediterranean world that has long cast its spell over painters and poets. Geologically the region rests on vast sheets of rock, into which a young granite intruded nearby, a testimony to the collision of the European and African continental plates. In the Upper Engadine, ancient earth history, living linguistic culture and the history of luxury tourism thus come together in the closest space.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#221c1a;color:#fff;border-radius:10px;padding:18px 22px;margin-top:28px;\"><strong style=\"font-size:1.08em;\">Related<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:6px 0 12px;color:#d8d2cc;font-size:14px;\">To make your trip run smoothly , our guides and gear tips for this destination:<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:10px;\"><a href=\"\/en\/schichtenprinzip-bekleidung\/\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#f25353;color:#fff;padding:9px 16px;border-radius:6px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;font-size:14px;\">Layering guide for clothing \u2192<\/a><a href=\"\/en\/packliste-tages-bergwanderung\/\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#f25353;color:#fff;padding:9px 16px;border-radius:6px;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;font-size:14px;\">Day-tour packing list \u2192<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Moritz im Oberengadin gilt als Wiege des alpinen Wintertourismus, der hier 1864 begann, und war zweimal Austragungsort der Olympischen Winterspiele (1928 und 1948). Der mond\u00e4ne H\u00f6henkurort auf 1.822 m liegt an einer Kette t\u00fcrkisblauer Engadiner Seen vor dem Bernina-Massiv und ist f\u00fcr sein au\u00dfergew\u00f6hnlich sonniges, trockenes Klima bekannt. Highlights Engadiner Seenplatte mit St. Moritzersee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":961,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","citadela-item-category":[39,36,33],"citadela-item-location":[66],"class_list":["post-933","citadela-item","type-citadela-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","citadela-item-category-ausflugsziele-sehenswuerdigkeiten","citadela-item-category-seen-baden","citadela-item-category-ski-winter","citadela-item-location-graubuenden-engadin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/citadela-item"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1581,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item\/933\/revisions\/1581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"citadela-item-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item-category?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"citadela-item-location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alpentreff.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/citadela-item-location?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}