UEFA Women’s Euro 2025: The venues

12 July 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Sport Reading Time:  10 minutes

© UEFA

© UEFA

The 2025 UEFA Women’s Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 or simply Euro 2025, is the 14th edition of the UEFA Women’s Championship, the quadrennial international football championship organised by UEFA for the women’s national teams of Europe. The tournament is being played in Switzerland from 2 to 27 July 2025. It is the third edition since it was expanded to 16 teams. The tournament has returned to its usual four-year cycle after the previous tournament was delayed to 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. England are the defending champions, having won the 2022 tournament.   read more…

Theme Week Engadine – Bernina Range

28 June 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

Bernina as seen from Munt Pers © Capricorn4049/cc-by-sa-4.0

Bernina as seen from Munt Pers © Capricorn4049/cc-by-sa-4.0

The Bernina Range is a mountain range in the Alps of eastern Switzerland and northern Italy. It is considered to be part of the Rhaetian Alps within the Central Eastern Alps. It is one of the highest ranges of the Alps, covered with many glaciers. Piz Bernina (4,049 m (13,284 ft)), its highest peak, is the most easterly four-thousand-metre peak in the Alps. The peak in the range which sees the most ascents is Piz Palü.   read more…

Theme Week Engadine – Samedan

27 June 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General Reading Time:  5 minutes

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© MadGeographer/cc-by-sa-3.0

Samedan is a town and municipality in the Maloja Region in the Swiss canton of Grisons. It is served by Samedan railway station on the Rhaetian Railway network and by the Samedan Airport.   read more…

Theme Week Engadine – Scuol

26 June 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

Scuol village and valley © Erwin1990/cc-by-sa-3.0

Scuol village and valley © Erwin1990/cc-by-sa-3.0

Scuol is a municipality in the Engiadina Bassa/Val Müstair Region in the Swiss canton of Grisons. The official language in Scuol is Romansh. On 1 January 2015 the former municipalities of Ardez, Guarda, Tarasp, Ftan and Sent merged into Scuol.   read more…

Theme Week Engadine – Silvaplana

25 June 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General Reading Time:  5 minutes

FIS Cross-Country World-Cup Engadin 2025 Women © Fyrtaarn/cc-by-sa-4.0

FIS Cross-Country World-Cup Engadin 2025 Women © Fyrtaarn/cc-by-sa-4.0

Silvaplana (Romansh: Silvaplauna) is a municipality in the Maloja Region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden and the name of a lake in the municipality. The first sign of a settlement in the borders of the municipality are some Roman-era broken pillars on the Julier Pass. The village church was first mentioned in 1356. A new, late gothic church was built in 1491. In 1556 the village converted to the Protestant Reformation.   read more…

Theme Week Engadine – Zernez

24 June 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

© picswiss.ch - Roland Zumbühl/cc-by-sa-3.0

© picswiss.ch – Roland Zumbühl/cc-by-sa-3.0

Zernez is a village and a municipality in the Engiadina Bassa/Val Müstair Region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. On 1 January 2015 the former municipalities of Lavin and Susch merged into the municipality of Zernez. Zernez is a major node in the regional road network, with roads leading into the Upper Engadine and towards Italy, the Lower Engadine and towards Austria, over the Fuorn Pass into the Val Mustair and over the Flüela Pass. Zernez is the center for visitors of the Swiss National Park (Romansh: Parc Naziunal).   read more…

Theme Week Engadine

23 June 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Bon voyage, Theme Weeks Reading Time:  12 minutes

Lakes of Upper Engadine © Biovi

Lakes of Upper Engadine © Biovi

The Engadin or Engadine (Romansh: Engiadina; German: Engadin; Italian: Engadina; French: Engadine) is a long high Alpine valley region in the eastern Swiss Alps in the canton of Graubünden in southeasternmost Switzerland with about 25,000 inhabitants. It follows the route of the Inn (Romansh: En) from its headwaters at Maloja Pass in the southwest running roughly northeast until the Inn flows into Austria, little less than one hundred kilometers downstream. The En/Inn subsequently flows at Passau into the Danube, making it the only Swiss river to drain into the Black Sea. The Engadine is protected by high mountain ranges on all sides and is famous for its sunny climate, beautiful landscapes and outdoor activities.   read more…

Lauterbrunnen in Switzerland

2 April 2025 | Author/Destination: | Category: General Reading Time:  5 minutes

© flickr.com - Noel Reynolds/cc-by-2.0

© flickr.com – Noel Reynolds/cc-by-2.0

Lauterbrunnen is a village and municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. The municipality comprises the other villages of Wengen, Mürren, Gimmelwald, Stechelberg, and Isenfluh, as well as several other hamlets. The population of the village of Lauterbrunnen is less than that of Wengen, but larger than that of the others.   read more…

Fondue

29 December 2024 | Author/Destination: | Category: General, Bon appétit Reading Time:  8 minutes

© flickr.com - Juliano Mendes/cc-by-2.0

© flickr.com – Juliano Mendes/cc-by-2.0

Fondues are a group of distinct dishes that can be either savoury or sweet. Cheese fondue, originating in Switzerland, is the original fondue, hence the French term fondue for “melted”. Since the 1950s, however, the term fondue has been generalized to a number of other dishes in which a food is dipped or cooked into a communal pot kept hot. Fondue eaten as a communal meal is referred to as a fondue party.   read more…

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