"On the approach to Arosa in the Graubunden Alps, the road is lined with mountain chapels, their stark spires soaring heavenwards; a portent, perhaps, of the ominous route ahead. The sheer-sided valley is skirted with rugged farmhouses and the road twists, over ravines and round hairpin curves, to a holiday destination that feels like a well-kept secret. On the village's frozen lake, young families ice skate, hand in hand."
"I am here for a week in an apartment with my wife and two kids, as it's a place my Swiss partner's parents and grandparents have been returning to for more than a century. What first drew them here? All say the same thing: Arosa is the Swiss mountain village most Swiss don't even think to visit; a low-key alternative to the box office of St Moritz, Verbier and Zermatt."
Arosa sits on a high, terraced plateau in the Graubünden Alps, reached by a road lined with mountain chapels and winding over ravines and hairpin bends. The sheer-sided valley is dotted with rugged farmhouses and dense fir forests beneath saw-cut summits. The village features a frozen lake where young families ice skate, a snow-covered main street where children sled past cars, brown-bear mascots and warm lamp-posts that gild falling snow. Generations of a Swiss family have returned for more than a century. Arosa offers a low-key, childlike alternative to St Moritz, Verbier and Zermatt, one hour south of Chur.
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