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.
"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."
Read at www.theguardian.com
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