Everything about St Moritz totally explained
St. Moritz (
German:
Sankt Moritz,
Romansh:
San Murezzan) is an exclusive resort town in the
Engadine valley in
Switzerland. It is a
municipality in the
district of Maloja in the
Swiss canton of
Graubünden. St. Moritz is considered the oldest and one of the most famous winter resorts in the world. Due to its favorable location residents enjoy over 300 days of sunshine a year. Every winter this alpine village hosts the "White Turf" horse race on the frozen
Lake St. Moritz attended by the international
Upper class. The official languages are
Romansh and
German.
Popular pastimes include
skiing and
hiking, and nearby there's also the world famous
Cresta Run toboggan course.
The year-round population is 5600, with some 3000 seasonal employees supporting hotels and rental units with a total of 13,000 beds.
Since the registration of a new
trademark by the tourist office in
1987, St. Moritz is also known as
Top of the World.
Sport
St. Moritz has been the host city for the
1928 and
1948 Winter Olympics. It also hosted the 1934, 1974 and 2003
Alpine Skiing World Championships. It is one of three cities that have hosted the
Winter Olympic Games twice, the others being
Innsbruck, Austria and
Lake Placid, New York in the
United States. Additionally, it has hosted the
FIBT World Championships (
bobsleigh and
skeleton racing) a record 21 times.
Tourist attractions
- The Segantini Museum: dedicated to Giovanni Segantini, a painter that lived the last 5 years of his life in Engadine painting "nature, life, death".
- The bobsled run: a very rare natural bob sleigh. It is typically up and running by mid December each year
- Viewing the glacier landscape: there are a number of notable vistas. Much can be seen by descending from Diavolezza to the Morteratsch Glacier.
- The 3300 metres high Piz Corvatsch with its ice cave and its eight-kilometer long ski slope down to St.Moritz-Bad.
In popular culture
St. Moritz was mentioned in the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger as a skiing resort. Also mentioned in the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only.
In the Ian Flemming novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service the villian Blofeld uses Piz Gloria, a mountaintop facility in a resort near St. Moritz, as his base of operations. Ironically, the real Piz Gloria is in another part of Switzerland.
St. Moritz is mentioned in the song Where do you go to my lovely by Peter Sarstedt and the song I Wouldn't Dream Of It by the New Zealand band Split Enz.
St. Moritz is also mentioned in the book of the Belgian writer Aster Berkhof named 'Veel geluk, professor!'
St. Moritz is also a brand of menthol cigarettes distributed by British American Tobacco.Further Information
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