Hotel Crusch Alva


The 13 rooms in this beautiful 500-year-old Engadine house overlooking the central plaza are full of timber-flavoured rustic charm. Savour fondue or fish in the little Stüva (parlour) on the 1st floor.


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1. Muottas Muragl Bahn

7.37 MILES

This fun old funicular railway, the first in the Engadine Valley dating from 1907, takes its passengers up over 700 vertical metres to Punt Muragl (2454m)…

2. Chesa Futura

9.16 MILES

The Norman Foster–designed Chesa Futura ('House of the Future' in Romansch), an eco-friendly apartment building of breathtaking architectural design, can…

3. Swiss National Park Centre

9.33 MILES

At the hands-on Swiss National Park Centre, an audioguide gives you the low-down on conservation, wildlife and environmental change. Staff can provide…

4. Engadiner Museum

9.54 MILES

For a peek at the archetypal dwellings and humble interiors of the Engadine Valley, visit this museum showing traditional stoves and archaeological finds.

5. Segantini Museum

9.64 MILES

Housed in an eye-catching stone building topped by a cupola, this museum shows the paintings of Giovanni Segantini (1858–99). The Italian artist…

6. Diavolezza

11.16 MILES

This cable car, with its own station on the Bernina Line (Bernina Diavolezza) and a huge car park at its base, whisks passengers up from 2093m to…

7. Corvatsch 3303

12.3 MILES

Ride the spectacular Corvatsch cable cars from Silvaplana-Surlej (1870m) to the Murtèl mid-station (2702m), then from Murtèl to the top – at a stunning…

8. Parc Ela

14.13 MILES

Switzerland's biggest nature park is Parc Ela. Spanning nearly 600 sq km and encompassing 19 communities in the Albula-Bergün and Savognin-Bivio areas,…