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ST. MORITZ
S U I C A

- INTRODUCAO

Sankt-Moritz é uma comuna da Suíça, no Cantão Grisões, com cerca de 5.029 habitantes. Estende-se por uma área de 28,69 km2, de densidade populacional de 175 hab/km2. Confina com as seguintes comunas: Bever, Celerina/Schlarigna, Samedan, Silvaplana.
A língua oficial nesta comuna é o Alemão.
Sankt-Moritz foi sede dos Jogos Olímpicos de Inverno de 1928 e dos Jogos Olímpicos de Inverno de 1948. Saint Moritz é também uma importante cidade turistica recebendo cerca de 200 mil visitantes a cada ano, principalmente, no inverno, já que é uma famosa estação de esqui.

- HISTORIA

- DADOS GERAIS
Cantão Grisões	Língua(s) oficial(is) Alemão	Coordenadas 46° 30' N 9° 50' E	Altitude 1.838 m n.m.m
Área 28,69 km²	População (2003) - Densidade 5.029 hab. 175 hab/km²	Website www.stmoritz-gemeinde.ch
- PANORAMICA
St. Moritz (German: Sankt Moritz, Romansh: San Murezzan) is an exclusive resort town in the Engadine valley in Switzerland. It is a municipality in the district of Maloja in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. The highest summit in the Eastern Alps, the Piz Bernina, lies a few kilometres south of the town. St. Moritz is considered the oldest and one of the most famous winter resorts in the world. Due to its favorable location residents enjoy over 300 days of sunshine a year. Every winter this alpine village hosts the "White Turf" horse race on the frozen Lake St. Moritz attended by the international Upper class. The official languages are Romansh and German. Popular pastimes include skiing and hiking, and nearby there is also the world famous Cresta Run toboggan course. The year-round population is 5600, with some 3000 seasonal employees supporting hotels and rental units with a total of 13,000 beds. The town was named after Saint Maurice, a Coptic Orthodox and Roman Catholic saint. Since the registration of a new trademark by the tourist office in 1987, St. Moritz is also known as Top of the World. Atracoes. The Segantini Museum: dedicated to Giovanni Segantini, a painter that lived the last 5 years of his life in Engadine painting "nature, life, death". The bobsled run: a very rare natural bob sleigh. It is typically up and running by mid December each year Viewing the glacier landscape: there are a number of notable vistas. Much can be seen by descending from Diavolezza to the Morteratsch Glacier. The 3300 metres high Piz Corvatsch with its ice cave and its eight-kilometer long ski slope down to St.Moritz-Bad.
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