Departure point for your train and mountain experience
Chur, the Alpine city is terminal of important train lines from Germany, France and Benelux. It is departure point of the Rhaetian Railway and its Glacier and Bernina Express trains which run partly on the in July 2008 certified UNESCO world heritage line.
Chur is the only city in Switzerland with its own winter and summer sports region, conveniently linked with the city by means of an aerial cableway. Famous surrounding resorts like Klosters, Davos and Bad Ragaz or leisure resorts like Arosa, Flims/Laax or Lenzerheide are all connected to Chur by postal bus or train.

Points of interest
The important bishop’s town is also the centre of Rhaeto-Romanic Switzerland and the country’s oldest town. To help find the most important witnesses to the town’s history, the city map and the newly introduced audio guide will lead you through town. The audio guide is a personal city tour on your mobile phone or MP3 player and available in 11 languages. Examples include the Gothic old town, the cathedral with its wonderful, three-sided carved altar and the Episcopal palace. Since Chur is the capital of Graubünden, it hosts the three cantonal museums with collections of Alpine culture. Visits to the Graubünden Museum of Fine Art for example, with works from Alberto Giacometti, Giovanni Segantini and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, are particularly rewarding. All three museums are open from Tuesday to Sunday from 10.00am to 5.00pm.
Well worth a visit is also the Giger Bar, designed by “Alien”-creator and Oscar-winning artist H.R. Giger.

Shopping and culinary delights
The town’s 500 shops offer the largest shopping centre between Zurich and Milan. In a small area there is enormous variety from small traditional shops in the old town to large shopping centres. The car-free old town and its lovely winding streets are very inviting for a shopping stroll. Looking for a souvenir? The Chur City Guide offers a lot of advice. It also informs about the 130 restaurants which make Chur to one of the most restaurant-dense towns in Switzerland. Not surprising then that the 35’000 inhabitants of Chur enjoy going out and celebrating. The Welschdörfli-part of town is the best place to go for nightlife, bars and pubs.

• The Rhaetian Railway has been certified as an UNESCO world heritage site and therefore has a lot to offer – best explored from Chur.
• Chur is the only city in Switzerland with its own winter and summer sports region, linked with the city by means of the Brambrüesch aerial cableway.
• All well-known resorts in Graubünden are within easy reach from Chur. Which means the city has a new adventure to offer every day.
• The oldest archaeological discovery on city ground dates back to 12’000 to 9000 years BC. Chur has been continuously populated for at least 5000 years.
• Chur is natural: 50 percent of the city area is covered with forest and at the same time Chur offers an urban infrastructure with cultural events and a large variety of shops.
• Culinary delights: You will find everything from gourmet restaurants to local pubs in Chur

• Chur Festival and Alpine Beard Meeting in the old town offer food, music and an Alpine beard competition where the most genuine European beard is chosen. (August)
• Opera at castle Haldenstein – romantic opera venue in the castle courtyard. It takes place every other year (August)
• Chur hit parade – music fans travel to the Grisons metropolis to meet up with the big stars from the world of hit music (September).
• Autumn in Chur – every autumn the Chur Theatre presents an international theatre and dance programme (October/November)
• Long Saturday – a variety of cultural venues are open for 12 hours and offer dozens of cultural events (November)
• Chur Advent – Christmas market, figure skating, gospel songs and fairytale-bus (December)