St Moritz hotels

Hotels in St Moritz

The famous resort town of St Moritz is located in the glorious Engadine valley in the Swiss canton of Graübunden. The highest mountain summit in the Eastern Alps, the Piz Bernina lies a few miles south of the town.

Winter Sports

St Moritz is the original Swiss alpine playground. It has been luring the rich, famous and talented since 1864. The combination of a sparkling blue-green lake, rich dark forests and perfect peaks make it irresistible all year round, but particularly when there's a good deep covering of perfect powder. There is a great deal of glitz and glamour associated with St Moritz, but none of it obscures the real reason why people come. Out on the sunny slopes under deep blue alpine skies you will find thrilling black ski runs such as Diavolezza, the first class carving terrain of Corviglia and seemingly endless miles of trails for hiking when the snows recede.

Museums and Galleries

The sublime scenery around St Moritz hotels captures the imagination of skiers, but it also inspires artists. At the excellent Segantini Museum you can admire the paintings of the 19th-century Italian artist Giovanni Segantini, who conveys the sense of immense scale, brilliant light and space powerfully on canvas. At the Engadiner Museum in the town, you can also discover how traditional occupants of the valley lived, through superbly evocative displays of their simple dwellings and contents.

Restaurants and Cafés

You won't be surprised to discover superb food and fabulous places to relax and refuel in St Moritz. Fine and locally flavoured cuisine is very much part of the magic formula that keeps people coming. The peak of culinary quality is probably the two Michelin-starred Ecco On Snow. In a stunning white and gold interior, you can enjoy the creations of master chef Rolf Fliegauf, as he weaves some genuine magic with bold, tasty and top quality ingredients. Somewhat higher up the mountainside, Swiss celebrity chef Reto Mathis produces exquisite fresh pasta, rösti, and polenta with venison sausage, while you stare in awe at the widescreen view from the Mathis Brasserie windows. Restaurant vistas rarely come better than this, but you are dining thousands of feet up in arguably the world's prettiest mountain range! Nearer lake level, Chesa Veglia is a simple slate-roofed, brilliant white chalet restaurant dating from 1658. It's warm and woody interior provides the perfect ambiance to enjoy fine pizza and local specialities such as Bündner Gerstensuppe, which is a creamy barley soup that's guaranteed to keep the winter chill at bay.