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Maienfeld
! F3 @ £
n Bahnhofstrasse 1;
www.heidiland.com
The village of Maienfeld,
across the Rhine from Bad
Ragaz, is also part of the
Heidiland tourism area. It was
this part of the Swiss Alps that
Johanna Spyri chose as the
setting for Heidi (1881), the
story of an orphaned girl
that has become a classic of
children’s literature. A very
easy walking trail leads from
Maienfeld up to the hamlet of Today it is one of the largest The slopes of the Hörnli
Oberrofels. Here visitors can of Swiss resorts and hosts near Arosa, ideal for
see Heidi’s House, a wooden world leaders at the Davos intermediate skiiers
chalet in which the fictional World Economic Forum.
surroundings of Heidi’s life Davos has close associ ations 16
with her grand father are with German writer and Nobel
vividly re-created. laureate Thomas Mann, who Arosa
visited in 1911 and was ! F4 @ £ n Poststrasse;
inspired to write The Magic www.arosa.ch
15 Mountain. The town is also Set in a bowl in the narrow
associated with the German
Davos Expressionist painter Ernst Schanfigg valley, Arosa is
Ludwig Kirchner, who settled one of Switzerland’s most
! F4 £ @ n Promenade 67;
www.davos.ch here in 1917. The largest beautiful resorts. Although it
collection of his work in the lies at an altitude of 1,800 m
Originally a remote village, world, including many of the (5,900 ft), it enjoys a gentle
Davos developed into a health Alpine landscapes that he climate, with lots of sunshine.
resort for tuberculosis suf- painted during his years in The town is divided into two
ferers in the 1860s, and was Davos, are displayed in the areas. Ausserarosa is the main
transformed into a winter Kirchner Museum here. resort and Innerarosa the
sports resort in the 1930s. Davos has some famous original village. The crafts
“off-piste” powder snow runs, and folk art on display in the
but beginners are catered Schanfigg Heimatmuseum
for, too: there are several ski reflect mountain life in the
and snowboarding schools, days before the town became
as well as some less demand- a popular winter holiday spot.
ing slopes. There are also In winter the neighbouring
toboggan runs and a large slopes of Weisshorn, Hörnli
natural ice rink, where ice and Prätschli provide superb
hockey is played. downhill pistes. There are also
In summer visitors can cross-country trails, a sleigh
enjoy golf and tennis, hiking run and an ice rink. In summer
along trails, rock climbing visitors can enjoy over 200 km
and trekking on horseback. (125 miles) of hiking trails and
mountain biking routes, and
Kirchner Museum the resort’s two lakes offer a
" ⌂ Promenade 82 variety of watersports.
# 11am–6pm Tue–Sun
∑ kirchnermuseum.ch Schanfigg
Heimatmuseum
" ⌂ Poststrasse, Innerarosa
# Jun–Oct: 2:30–4:30pm Mon,
The small port of Weesen Wed & Fri; Dec–Apr: 2:30–
in an idyllic lakeside 4:30pm Tue & Fri ∑ arosa-
setting on the Walensee museum.ch
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