Saint-Moritz

Geschichte

St. Moritz (also Sankt Moritz, San Maurizio, Saint-Moritz) is a high Alpine resort in the Engadine in Switzerland, at an elevation of about 1800m above sea level. It is Upper Engadine's major village and a municipality in the district of Maloja in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.St. Moritz lies on the southern slopes of the Albula Alps below the Piz Nair (3,056m) overlooking the flat and wide glaciated valley of the Upper Engadine and eponymous lake: Lej da San Murezzan (Romansh for Lake of St. Moritz). It hosted the Winter Olympics in 1928 and 1948.HistoryVotive offerings, swords, and needles from the Bronze Age found at the base of the springs in St. Moritz indicate that the Celts had already discovered them.St. Moritz is first mentioned around 1137–39 as ad sanctum Mauricium. The village was named after Saint Maurice, an early Christian saint from southern Egypt said to have been martyred in 3rd century Roman Switzerland while serving as leader of the Theban Legion.