St. Moritz

town-to-slope funicular in minutes, then wide, sunny, immaculately groomed pistes with Piz Nair and the whole Engadin at your feet

the Engadin's highest lift-served point at 3,303 m, a long snow-sure descent, and Switzerland's longest floodlit night-ski run — a bucket-list evening

high, snow-sure runs facing the Bernina glaciers, plus the classic guided glacier descent — big-mountain scenery on the valley's snow-sure side

link Corviglia, Corvatsch/Furtschellas and Diavolezza/Lagalb across the sunny plateau on a single pass

every Friday the 4.2 km illuminated Corvatsch descent opens at 19:00 for night skiing capped by a mountain-hut dinner — a genuine only-here evening

since 1907, thoroughbreds gallop, trot and tow skiers across the ice under the peaks, in a champagne-and-furs setting with no equal

high-goal polo on the frozen lake in late January — one of the most exclusive winter-sport events in the Alps, with brand-heavy hospitality

~14,000 cross-country skiers stream from Maloja to S-chanf on the second Sunday of March, and the Cresta Run is a genuine 1885 adrenaline institution

strap in between a pro pilot and brakeman for a guest run down the 1,722 m hand-iced St. Moritz–Celerina track

the 1896 landmark with the turreted silhouette, the legendary lobby, Chesa Veglia, and the frozen lake at its feet

the hotel of Badrutt's 1864 winter bet, above town with lake and Olympic-heritage views, a refined spa and the Foster-designed Kulm Country Club

a fairytale-castle hotel in its own snowy park with a private ski lift and old-world service

the all-suite Carlton pairs a contemporary spa, Michelin-level dining and lake views with a "private mountain" ski experience

the Belle Époque palace in St. Moritz Bad built around the town's famed mineral springs, with a grand spa and Signal/Corviglia access

a hand-in-hand crossing of the white lake under the Engadin peaks, then a lake-view suite and dinner at Badrutt's or the Kulm

in early October the larch forests blaze gold above the mirror-still Sils and Silvaplana lakes — a quiet, deeply romantic season most visitors miss

a first-class panoramic carriage over the UNESCO Bernina line — the Montebello curve, the Morteratsch glacier and Lago Bianco

Badrutt's historic farmhouse-turned-restaurant, all carved larch and firelight — one of the most romantic tables in St. Moritz, paired with a palace suite

St. Moritz has drawn spa-goers to its iron-rich springs since the Bronze Age

the Belle Époque palace built directly over the town's famed mineral spring, with a grand thermal-and-mountain spa — the deepest expression of St

the Big 5 spa circuits built for tired legs after big Corvatsch days — the recovery half-day inside the luxury stay

the gentle high-plateau trail past St. Moritz, Silvaplana and Sils lakes, framed by larch and peaks — easy, spectacular, glorious in autumn gold

an easy, awe-inspiring walk up the Val Morteratsch toward the Bernina glaciers, reached by the Bernina line — big-mountain scenery on the flat

ride the funicular and cable car to Piz Nair for a summer panorama over the Upper Engadin lakes, then a high traverse back

the 1908 domed rotunda to Giovanni Segantini, whose luminous high-Alpine triptych Werden–Sein–Vergehen — left unfinished at his death in 1899

the Bernina railway over the 2,253 m pass, its viaducts and spirals engineered without a rack

the small museum to the Cresta Run and bob traditions tells the story of the 1885 natural-ice track and St. Moritz's daredevil sporting heritage