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Castelmur Castle is a castle in the village of Bondo in the municipality of Bregaglia of the Canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance . [ 1 ] The fortifications at Castelmur may be, after the Three Castles of Bellinzona , the most important example of medieval valley fortifications in modern ...
The state is the only trilingual canton of Switzerland. [8] It is also the only one where Romansh, Switzerland's fourth national language, has official status. Romansh language and culture is an important part of local identity. [9] In 2020 the canton had a population of 200,096. [2] It is the least densely populated canton of Switzerland.
One of the largest Roman era villas in Switzerland was excavated from under the castle in 1840-42 by Frédéric Dubois de Montperreux. It was built in multiple stages between the 1st and 3rd centuries AD into a palatial mansion with a peristyle, at least two baths with mosaics and frescoes and terraced gardens. In the 11th or 12th century a ...
Until the 16th century, the castle was known as Ramosch or Remüs after the Lords of Ramosch. In the 16th century it began to be known as Tschanüff which was Romansh for Casa nova or New House. [3] This was to distinguish it from the nearby Serviezel Castle. During the Bündner Wirren in 1622, the castle was captured and burned by troops from ...
Around 1850 Baron Giovanni de Castelmur (1800-1871), a descendant of the Castelmur family from the nearby Castelmur Castle bought the Palazzo as well as the ruins of Castelmur Castle in Bondo. Giovanni was the son of a wealthy Marseille pastry shop owner, who after becoming a successful businessman returned to his family's ancestral village.
When Grisons became part of Switzerland in 1803, it had a population of roughly 73,000, of whom around 36,600 were Romansh speakers—many of them monolingual—living mostly in the Romansh-speaking valleys. [7] The number of Romansh speakers has remained roughly constant since that time (while the population of Switzerland has nearly quintupled).
Mustér ([muˈʃteː] ⓘ, Romansh) or Disentis (German), with its official name Disentis/Mustér is a village and a municipality in the Surselva Region in the Swiss canton of Grisons. The skiing and summer tourism resort high up in the Rhine valley is the site of one of the oldest Benedictine monasteries in Switzerland. The monastery dates ...
Donat Cadruvi (1923–1998) a Swiss lawyer, politician, and Romansh-language writer. He was a member of the Swiss National Council 1963–1971 and Mayor of Ilanz 1975–1978; Corina Casanova (born 1956 in Ilanz) the Federal Chancellor of Switzerland between 2008 and 2015