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St. moritz
For such a wellknown winter sports resort, it is ironic that more people visit St. Moritz in the summer than winter. A very smart and expensive resort, its world class winter sports take some beating. It can offer very nearly every winter sport known with skiing, bob sledding, snow boarding, bob sleighing, skating, winter golf, polo, greyhound racing and even cricket on the frozen lake. In the summer, the hiker reigns supreme. There are a great many marked trails to follow suitable for first timers to seasoned walkers. Also on offer during the summer months are horse riding and river rafting.
The village contains a railway station, tourist office and post office, together with shops that are very smart (Armani, Calvin Klein, Prada etc.) to the more mundane. Eating out can be as expensive or cheap as you can wish and the grocery store in Via Maistra is open 24 hrs each day. During late January an annual Gourmet Festival is held giving an opportunity to sample the culinary features and gastronomic delights of hereabouts.
There is not a lot to see in the village - most come to sample the outdoor sports and other activities. There are a couple of museums worthy of visiting. One has only two rooms given over to the works of the Italian expressionist, Segantini and the other to wood carving and other crafts.
The train station offers services locally as do the buses, but two of the railway journeys are far more interesting and important. These are the Glacier Express to Zermatt which takes a good eight hours, crosses the alpine landscape and travels through ninety-one tunnels and crosses two hundred and ninety-one bridges. The other is the Berina Express that goes down to Tirano in Italy. This has the reputation of being the only Swiss train that crosses the Alps without having to enter a single tunnel.