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UNDERGROUND
CHUR
Subterranean remains
of the city’s 5th-century
Kirche St Stephen were
first dis covered during
the con struc tion of a
school in 1850. Once the
cemetery church for the
bish ops of Chur, it lies
next to Kirche St Luzi,
which has a ring crypt.
Sunlight bathing the Both can be visited on
vineyards on the hills a guided tour.
outside the city of Chur

3 4 town. Built in the 12th century
as the church of a monastery,
Kirche St Martin Kirche St Luzi the building overlies the crypt
of an 8th­century structure,
⌂ St Martinsplatz § 081 ⌂ Alte Schanfiggerstrasse 9
252 22 92 # 8:30–11:30am This massive church, which is including a ring crypt, where
the relics of Saint Lucius were
& 2–5pm Mon–Fri
dedicated to the missionary once dis played. Amid the
Since at least AD 769 there who is said to have brought church’s soaring Carolingian
has been a church dedicated Christianity to the region, sits arches and grand capi tals,
to St Martin on this spot. The atop a vineyard­covered hill Romanesque carvings are
late Goth ic church that stands on the east side of the old visible. A seminary is on site.
here today was com pleted in
1491, replacing the earlier
Bündner
church that was de stroyed Naturmuseum 0 metres 200 N
Chur
by fire in 1464. The steepled Station O T T O S T R A S S E
tower, which domin ates the BAH NHO F P LAT Z A LE X A N D E R STRASSE 200
city’s land scape, was com­ HARTBERTSTR. CA LVENWEG
pleted in 1534, and re mained
QUADERSTRASSE
unaltered until 1917 when it STEINBOCKSTRASSE M A S A N S E R S T R A S S E 0 yards
was re placed by the tower B A H N H O F S T R A S S E QUADERSTRASSE
seen today. According to local ENGA D I N ST R . THEATERWEG ST EI NB R U C HSTRASSE
tradi tion, Protestant reformer ZEUGHAUSSTR.
Bündner
Martin Luther him self de liv­ Kunstmuseum
ered a sermon in the mid­ GÄU G GE LI ST R A S S E GRABENSTR. Bündner
1520s, which prompted the Calanda REICHSG. Stube
congrega tion’s conversion. POST- STORCHENGASSE
PLATZ
Regierungsplatz
Among the most no table Graues
G R A B E N S T R A S S E
fea tures of its interior are the E N G A D I N S T R A S S E Fontana- P OSTSTR A S S E VAZEROLGAS SE Haus
carved stalls and the stained­ FONTANASTR. park REICHSG. KARLIHOF- PLANATERRASTRASSE
PLATZ
Stadt-
glass win dows, on the right AQUA SANASTRASSE garten KLOSTERGASSE
OLD TOWN
of the main doors, cre ated by SENNHOFSTR. AROSASTRASSE AROSAS T R A S S E
Augusto Giacometti in 1917–19, KORN- Rathaus R EIC HS G . SÜSSWINKELG.
PLATZ
which depict the Nativity UNTERE GASSE HE R R E N G A SS E RABENG. Rätisches
story. In the north and south Plessur Obertor KUPFERGASSE MARTINS- Museum HOFSTRASSE Bischöflicher Hof
ST.
GOLDGASSE
façades is some of the orig inal OBERE GASSE PLATZ
Kirche
HOF-
Carolingian masonry. Obere ARCAS St Martin PLATZ
Zum Alten Gasse ST. LUZIE N STR. Kirche
Zollhaus Chur St Luzi
Cathedral
L I ND E N Q U A I
P L E S S U R Q U A I
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