St. Moritz
St. Moritz (also german: Sankt Moritz, rm, , it, San Maurizio, french: Saint-Moritz) is a high Alpine resort town in the Engadine in Switzerland, at an elevation of about above sea level. It is Upper Engadine's major town and a municipality in the district of Maloja in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. St. Moritz lies on the southern slopes of the Albula Alps below the Piz Nair () overlooking the flat and wide glaciated valley of the Upper Engadine and eponymous lake: Lake St. Moritz. It hosted the Winter Olympics in 1928 and 1948. History Votive offerings, swords, and needles from the Bronze Age found at the base of the springs in St. Moritz indicate that the Celts had already discovered them. St. Moritz is first mentioned around 1137–39 as ''ad sanctum Mauricium''. The village was named after Saint Maurice, an early Christian saint from southern Egypt said to have been martyred in 3rd century Roman Switzerland while serving as leader of the Theban Legion. Pilgrims tra ...
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Maloja Region
Maloja Region is one of the eleven administrative districts in the canton Canton may refer to: Administrative division terminology * Canton (administrative division), territorial/administrative division in some countries, notably Switzerland * Township (Canada), known as ''canton'' in Canadian French Arts and ent ... of Graubünden in Switzerland. It has an area of and a population of (as of ). It was created on 1 January 2017 as part of a reorganization of the Canton.Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz - Mutationsmeldungen 2016
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Lake St
Lake Street may refer to: * Lake Street (Chicago) * Lake Street (Minneapolis) See also *Lake Street station (other) Lake Street Station may refer to the following places in the United States: __NOTOC__ Chicago, Illinois * Lake station (CTA) * Clark/Lake station * State/Lake station Minneapolis, Minnesota *Lake Street/Midtown station * I-35W & Lake Street station ...