Spectacular Journeys in Graubünden

Unlimited fun and adventure for active types, explorers, children and families. Numerous hiking and biking routes follow the barely visible border between Switzerland and Austria.

Brigels is your starting point for pass hikes in Glarnerland. And the Crest Falla chairlift brings hikers and nature lovers to see the sights at 400m above the Brigelser See lake.

Even on the way up from Malans in the little yellow gondola cabins, you can enjoy the view as far as Chur and Graubünden's Rhine Valley. More views await you 1,200 metres further up in the cosy mountain restaurant. Like the restaurant, the railway is operated by enthusiastic locals.

The journey through Chur starts at a leisurely pace. However, shortly after the city borders, the red train turns into a mountain railway steeply ascending to Arosa (1,775 m a.s.l.).

This panoramic train connects the north of Europe to its south – right through the UNESCO World Heritage site of Rhaetian Railway, passing by glaciers on its way down to palm trees.

A must for all railway fans – beauty and boldness combined. With its 65m high pillars, tapering towards the top, the viaduct is one of the most elegant bridge constructions in Graubünden. The most frequently photographed feature of the Rhaetian Railways.

130 kilometres in one train. The Albula/Bernina railway line forms the heart of the Unesco World Cultural Heritage listing and is regarded as one of the world’s most spectacular routes. The UNESCO route itself covers 122 kilometres from Thusis to Tirano, passing 196 bridges, 55 tunnels and 20 towns along the way.

The Diavolezza cable car in the Engadine takes you up to an altitude of 2,978 metres in just a few minutes. You have a view of the Piz Bernina, the only four-thousand-metre peak in the Eastern Alps, as well as the Piz Palü and the Pers and Morteratsch glaciers.

The Corviglia funicular and the Piz Nair cable car take you up to over 3000 metres in a short time. At the top of the Piz Nair, a panorama over the Engadine lake landscape and the peaks of the Albula Alps awaits you.

With the majesty of a triumphal arch, the Langwies viaduct soars 62m above the gorge where the Plessur and Sapün rivers meet. The construction is eloquent testimony to the pioneering spirit of the creators of what would come to be called the Rhaetian Railway.