Lake Silvaplana, Lake Champfer and Lake St. Moritz). At upper most part the valley breaks sharply down to the valley of the Maira river in the Bergell mountains. There were mapped three categories of ...

An overlooked jewel hugging its very own lake—Lake Lugano—the city has long been a haven for writers and artists drawn to its palm tree-lined beauty, Alpine foothills, warm summer weather ...

Nietzsche had the idea for his four-volume philosophical opus Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883-85), when he chanced upon a “pyramidal block of stone” beside nearby Lake Silvaplana, as revealed in ...

For sailors visiting Switzerland, "the famous Maloja wind on Lake Silvaplana makes the area ideal", says Lucy Gillmore in The Independent. The Nira Alpinahotel (Niraalpina.com) has a three-night ...