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Arosa

Arosa is a municipality in situated the canton of Grisons in Switzerland, known for being both a winter and a summer resort. It counts 2 300 inhabitants and is located at the end of the Schanfigg valley at 1,742 to 1,775 m of elevation. The place lies at the foot of the Weisshorn (2,653 m). It possesses a well-known and safe skiing area and boasts over 60 kilometers of slopes. The municipality comprises an area of 42.54 square kilometres. The first known settlements at this place date from the 13th century. After 1300 German-speaking Walser settlers came from Davos and replaced the Romansh-speaking original Arosa inhabitants. During the following centuries, inhabitants subsisted on alpine pasture. Until the year 1851 Аrosa was politically part of the Davos municipality and was a famous health resort. In 1888 the first sanatorium was opened. From 1900 on it became also a winter resort. In 1938 the first ski elevators were constructed, and in 1956 the Weisshorn cable car was opened. Further rope and chair lifts followed.

Nowadays the main economic activity is tourism, for which Arosa maintains 4,287 guest beds.

The village occupies the broad sunny bowl of the Schanfigg, encircled on all sides by snowy peaks – the Weisshorn (2653m of elevation) to the west of the resort, the Brüggerhorn (2401m) to the north and the Hörnli (2512m) to the south. It lies at the end of a spectacular single road which cuts its way up into the sheer and narrow valley southeast of Chur, passing on the way by a succession of idyllic terraced villages and offering vistas beautiful enough to make you want to stop and gape every two or three minutes – that you could do, but for the fact that in the 32 km journey, there’s a total of 244 switchbacks. However, it is easier, yet no less spectacular, to take the narrow-gauge train directly to Arosa, departing from the forecourt of Chur station and shadowing the road all the way up.

The town itself is composed of two areas: the main resort Ausserarosa, clustered by the train station and the Obersee lakelet, and the older village at the upper end of the valley, Innerarosa.

Arosa offers excellent skiing contitions, with over 70km of mostly red and blue pistes sidewinding down the gentle slopes around the resort; beginners are going to feel especially at home. There are also 25 kilometers of cross-country pistes in and around the resort. Lifts and a gondola go up from the Obersee to Weisshorn (with a chairlift from the halfway up branching over to the Brüggerhorn), and at the very end of the road in Innerarosa there’s another gondola leading to Hörnli.

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