Arosa Express - Airy Heights with the Swiss Mountain Train
Chur, Switzerland
The Arosa Express connects the Swiss villages Chur and Arosa. The departure from Chur starts slowly. Use the time to view some of the attractions of Chur as the Arosa Express passes through. Outside of the town, the journey becomes wilder - the Arosa Express mutates to a mountain train.
Lots of guests prefer to use the car for this one hour train journey from Chur to Arosa. Why? The extremely curvy roads of the mountainous landscape frightens many tourists. The journey with the car is not much quicker than with the Arosa Express. It is definitely more comfortable to be able to stretch your arms and legs. The engine of the Arosa Express overcomes all of these curves and hurdles. Lean back and enjoy the view of the Schanfigger valley.
The Langwieser viaduct is a highlight of the journey from Chur to Arosa. As it was built, there were few such large buildings made of steel concrete. The train glides there around 60 meters above the ground on thin rails. Way below, the river Plessure meanders through the Swiss landscape. After a little more than 25 kilometres, the Arosa Express reaches its goal. At the entrance of the train station Arosa, the train has conquered over one thousand metres of height.
Out of the Arosa Express and into the Winter Sport Village Arosa
As a mining village, Arosa was almost isolated for a long time. Around the end of the 19th century, some life started to appear in the small village of Arosa, as a German doctor helped the village to become recognised as a climatic health resort. Of course, what then happened is - first of all the sanatoriums and then the health resort guests in hoards. This was good, as just beforehand the canton street towards Arosa had been widened in order to ease access. The travel network became more dense as the Chur-Arosa train track was opened in 1914. It did not take long before winter sport was seen as a lucrative attraction. The first ski lifts and other mountain train lines became active.
Over the years, Arosa developed into a popular and famous holiday resort for winter sport for people from all over the world. A summer visit is also definitely worth it. An innumerable amount of tourists travel to Arosa year for year. Arosa's mountain railways carry off the skiers and the hikers into the pretty Swiss mountain world - by ski lift, gondola or cable car. Whoever wants to travel to Arosa in summer and books a hotel, can use the mountain railways free of charge.
