Canton of Grisons hotels collection

The train on the Albula line turns inside the mountain through spiral tunnels and passes back over its own rails; lower down, the viaduct at Landwasser sends it straight into a cliff. In Val Müstair, against the Italian border, a Benedictine convent keeps frescoes painted in Charlemagne's day. Higher up, the national park leaves the forest to itself, dead trees included. Soglio packs its stone-slab roofs together facing the chestnut woods; in autumn, blue smoke rises from the stone huts where the chestnuts are dried.