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St. Moritz (/ ˌ s æ n m ə ˈ r ɪ t s / SAN mə-RITS, US also / ˌ s eɪ n t-/ SAYNT-, UK also / s ən t ˈ m ɒr ɪ t s / sənt MORR-its; German, in full: Sankt Moritz [zaŋkt moˈrɪts, ˈmoːrɪts] locally; Romansh: San Murezzan [sam muˈʁetsən] ⓘ; Italian: San Maurizio; [a] French: Saint-Moritz) is a high Alpine resort town in the Engadine in Switzerland, at an elevation of about ...
While at the Olympics, Lord Northesk was a passenger on the famous bobsled run at St. Moritz with King Albert I of Belgium. [5] "Colonel Warwick Wright, an Englishman, was pilot of the sled, with King Albert and Dudley De La Vigne as passengers and the Earl of Northesk seated last as brakeman. All went well for two runs at breakneck speed down ...
The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1974 were held in St. Moritz, Switzerland, at Piz Nair from February 3–10, 1974. [1] St. Moritz hosted again in 2003, and the event is scheduled to return in 2017. It also hosted the Winter Olympics in 1948 and 1928 (no alpine skiing).
St. Moritz railway station is a railway station in the resort town of St. Moritz, in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. It is the southern terminus of the Albula Railway line from Chur, and a northern terminus for the Bernina Railway line from Tirano in Italy. [1] The station also serves as a terminus for local bus and Postbus services.
St. Moritz is a resort town in Switzerland. St. Moritz , Saint Moritz , or Sankt-Moritz may also refer to: Saint Maurice (German: St. Moritz ), a Roman military leader and Christian saint.
The 1928 Winter Olympics, officially known as the II Olympic Winter Games (French: II es Jeux olympiques d'hiver; German: II. Olympische Winterspiele; Italian: II Giochi olimpici invernali; Romansh: II Gieus olimpics d'enviern) and commonly known as St. Moritz 1928 (French: Saint-Moritz 1928; Romansh: San Murezzan 1928), were an international winter multi-sport event that was celebrated from ...
In 1882 he was the largest landowner in St. Moritz. He was a visionary in terms of technical development. In 1878, Badrutt went to the Exposition Universelle in Paris, France and purchased the first electrical lighting system, which he brought back to St. Moritz. [9] He was also an art collector and patron. [10]
The Rhaetian Railway serves a number of major tourist destinations, such as St. Moritz and Davos. One of the RhB lines, the Bernina Railway , crosses the Bernina Pass at 2,254 metres (7,395 ft) above sea level and runs down to Tirano, Lombardy in Italy.