Experiences along the Grand Tour in Graubünden

Welcome to Heidi's world: In the Heidi Village in Maienfeld you will experience real country life as in Heidi's time. Meet goats, explore the original Heidi House and enjoy the fantastic view from the Heidialp.

This kind of close encounter with the animal world is a great experience for children!

The Aquamarin adventure pool in Chur is sure to impress not only because of its pleasant water temperature, but also thanks to the numerous facilities that make a day’s bathing here a real pleasure.

For visitors, it’s an undiscovered gem, for local residents an annually recurring highlight: As soon as the first grass sprouts in the valley, the ibexes of the Albris colony migrate towards Pontresina and can be observed grazing, basking in the sun or playfully fighting at the upper end of the village. And best of all: With its new Ibex Paradise, Pontresina pays special tribute to the “King of the Alps” starting this spring.

Walk through the car-free old town of the oldest city in Switzerland. Between winding alleys, boutiques and restaurants, you will immerse yourself in over 13000 years of history.

The Salginatobel Bridge is a masterpiece by the grand steel and concrete pioneer Robert Maillart (1872-1940). The Swiss structural engineer created innovative and groundbreaking buildings that were to make him one of the most important engineers of his time.

The Rhine Gorge in Graubünden is one of the most impressive natural landscapes in Switzerland. Stand on the Il Spir viewing platform, hike along the Rhine or ride the Rhaetian Railway through the gorge.

Bavegna - welcome to the Val Surses holiday region. With its two tourist centres Savognin and Bivio, our valley lies in the heart of Graubünden, surrounded by Switzerland's largest nature park, Parc Ela. Val Surses is home to 11 villages that joined together in 2016 to form the municipality of Surses. Wide landscapes, crystal-clear mountain lakes, a wide range of sports and cultural activities and the Romansh language characterise our valley. Val Surses - so close to another world.

Along an ancient trade path, the «Puntins Ots Uina» adventure and culture trail leads through the Val d'Uina valley; a small and wildly romantic side valley in lower Engadine. A path characterized by attractive via ferrata passages as you make your way up and over the history-steeped way.

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Silvretta Park in Klosters offers children a wonderful playground specially designed to satisfy their every wish.

At 4049 metres, Piz Bernina is the only four-thousand-metre peak in the Eastern Alps and thus the highest mountain in the canton of Graubünden and the municipality of Samedan. The first ascent of the peak was made on 13 September 1850 by Johann Wilhelm Coaz with his two companions Jon and Lorenz Ragt Tscharner.

A wide selection of designer, sports, outdoor, and lifestyle brands offer their collections at attractive prices a Landquart Fashion Outlet. The outlet is designed in the style of a Graubünden chalet village, set against a stunning mountain landscape, and invites visitors to relax and linger with its shops, cafés, and restaurants. It is only an hour’s drive or train ride from Zurich, 50 minutes from St. Gallen, and ten minutes from Heidiland – located directly on the A13 between the Landquart motorway exit and Landquart train station.

Welcome to the Grisons, home of Heidi. Here, the author Johanna Spyri was inspired to write the world-famous children’s story of the same name. The wine region’s capital is Maienfeld. In Bad Ragaz, the neighbouring spa and health resort, thermal waters spring from the imposing Tamina Gorge. For hundreds of years, people have flocked to this destination seeking convalescence. The ‘Heidiland’ holiday region also delights visitors with its numerous offers for hikers, cyclists, and winter-sports enthusiasts.

Martinskirche (St. Martin's Church) is found in the little village of Zillis in Graubuenden. The church is famous for its painted ceiling dating to the 12th century. The ceiling painting, which consists of 153 panels, is the only one in the world that is nearly completely preserved.

The Maloja Pass is a high Swiss Alpine pass that connects Val Bregaglia with Engadin. It lies at the foot of the unique triple watershed of the Piz Lunghin. From here, one drop of rain can flow into the North Sea (Rhine), the Black Sea (Inn) or the Adriatic Sea (Maira). The Maloja Pass is of great importance for traffic and transport. What makes this alpine pass so unusual is that it is very flat on its northern side, but to the south it drops steeply and abruptly into Val Bregaglia.

This exciting adventure trail in S-charl teaches visitors of all ages about bears − those mysterious creatures.

Explore the Tamina Gorge near Bad Ragaz in eastern Switzerland: Hike through the 750-meter-long and 70-meter-deep crevice to the spring water grotto, where thermal water bubbles out of the rock at 36.5 degrees.

In Arosa, at an altitude of 1,800m, families will discover something usually only found at the seaside – a lovely little sandy beach where the whole family will want to stay. Bathing by the Untersee was originally reserved for men; until 1920, the ladies had to make do with the colder water of the Obersee (upper lake)...

Explore and discover the mountain forests in the Parc Ela together with Evla the golden eagle: with its different research equipment and a forest diary, the mountain forest goodie bag contains everything that is needed for an exciting day out in the nature.

In the Fashion Outlet Landquart, one of the most popular outlet centres in Europe, the Lindt Boutique invites you to a special shopping experience. Enjoy exclusive prices and let yourself be pampered by incomparable chocolate creations.

This suspension rope and bike park is located on the Flüela Pass, right by the “Stilli” bus stop. Enjoy extraordinary thrills and spills on five courses with varying levels of difficulty. The children’s course perfectly tailored to younger visitors.

In Maloja in the Upper Engadine, a smugglers' adventure trail has opened which enables visitors to enjoy both unique natural scenery and exciting stores. Along the trail, visitors get to learn exciting facts about the mythical smugglers' routes and the goods that the «contrabbandieri» took with them.

The internationally-renowned Convent of St. John in Müstair enjoys UNESCO World Cultural Heritage listing and owes its existence and uniqueness to Charlemagne. It is one of the few existing architectural examples from the Carolingian period.

The pool and spa in the middle of the mountains offers the latest indoor and outdoor pool technology, pure relaxation and fun for the little ones.

Inspired by the Niagara Falls and created over seven years of painstaking manual labour: the rock gallery of the Roffla Gorge.

The Tilla Adventure Trail in Präz on the Heinzenberg (above Thusis) tells the story of Tilla’s adventures.

In summer, Lai Barnagn comes alive as a bustling meeting place in the heart of idyllic Savognin, surrounded by impressive mountains in Switzerland’s largest nature park, Parc Ela. The sparkling lake is the perfect place to cool off, relax and unwind, providing the ideal backdrop for unforgettable summer days.

The Churches of St. Stephen and St. Luzi were and are both situated higher than the much more famous cathedral. Remains of the Church of St. Stephen were first discovered during the construction of the cantonal school in 1850.

The Suspension Rope Park on the Pradaschier Mountain is equipped in such a way that even children from ages 10 upwards (accompanied by adults) can have fun.

The Parsenn funicular climbs the Weissfluhjoch in two sections much like an express train. With the Davos landscape below us, the view extends as far as Piz Kesch, the Bernina and 60 kilometres to the south.

Finds of spearheads show that the Flüela Pass (2,383 m.a.s.l. | 7,818 ft) connecting the Landwasser and Lower Engadine valleys was already crossed during the Bronze Age. For a long time, the Walser people used the route to take their products to the surrounding valleys – from Vinschgau to Tyrol. The mountain pass road, which opened in 1867 and also featured a hospice, is now a starting point for ski mountaineers in winter as well as for summer rides with the historic stagecoach, racing bikes or motorcycles.

Crossing the Schin Gorge between Tiefencastel, Alvaschein and Sils in Domleschg was not for nervous travellers.