The luxury Glacier Express trains with panoramic windows connects Zermatt and St Moritz via some of the most spectacular Alpine scenery in Switzerland. The Glacier Express trains from Zermatt in the Valais Alps travel up the Rhone Valley, cross the Alps at Oberalppass, travel down the Rhine Gorge to Chur (and Davos) before riding the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage listed … [Read more...]
Saving Tips for Traveling on the Glacier Express Trains
Advance reservations and special savings deals allow for cheaper travel tickets on the Glacier Express train, one of Switzerland's most-famous panorama railway journeys.Discounted tickets, savings fares and package deals are often available for cheaper traveling on the luxury Glacier Express panoramic train in Switzerland. All regular Swiss Railways discounted fares, savings … [Read more...]
Travel on the Bernina Express Train in Switzerland
The Bernina Express trains cross the Swiss Alps twice in Graubünden on the UNESCO-listed Albula and Bernina railways with 55 tunnels and 196 bridges. The luxury Bernina Express trains with panoramic window wagons connect Chur and Davos with St Moritz via the Albula valley and tunnel before making the highest regular railway crossing of the Swiss Alps without using tunnels on … [Read more...]
Saving Tips for Traveling on the Bernina Express Train
Many savings options and discounted tickets are available for traveling in the panoramic cars of the Bernina Express trains through the Alps in Switzerland. All Swiss Railways discount cards and deals can be applied including the Swiss Pass, half-fare and junior cards. The Graubünden Pass can also give spectacular value for holidaymakers in this lovely Alpine canton of … [Read more...]
See the Painted Romanesque Ceiling in St Martin’s Church in Zillis
The Romanesque painted wooden ceilings in the St Martin’s Church in Zillis, canton Graubünden in Switzerland, is one of very few to have been preserved in Europe. The early 12th-century ceiling consists of 153 painted wooden squares with mythical images, Biblical scenes and episodes from the life of St Martin of Tours. Zillis is at the Via Mala in the Rhine Valley en route to … [Read more...]
See Carolingian Frescoes in St John’s in Müstair
The Carolingian and Romanesque wall paintings in the abbey church of St Johan in Müstair are the greatest series of medieval figurative murals in Switzerland. The church architecture of this UNESCO World Cultural Heritage-listed site in Graubünden is still predominantly Carolingian despite later Gothic additions. However, the cycle of Carolingian wall paintings featuring the … [Read more...]
St John’s Convent with Carolingian Wall Paintings in Müstair, Switzerland
The convent of St John's in Müstair in Graubünden is a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage listed site mostly visited for its magnificent Carolingian and Romanesque frescoes, the most important cycle of figurative murals in Switzerland. Also worth seeing are the Carolingian architecture of the church and Holy Cross Chapel, the oldest multistory fortress in the Alps and a small … [Read more...]