Place:Sankt Moritz, Graubünden, Switzerland

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NameSankt Moritz
Alt namesSt. Moritz
Saint Moritzsource: Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 810
Saint-Moritzsource: Rand McNally Atlas (1986) I-184
San Murezzansource: Wikipedia
Sankt Moritzsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Sankt-Moritzsource: Wikipedia
TypeMunicipality
Coordinates46.5°N 9.833°E
Located inGraubünden, Switzerland     (1300 - )
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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St. Moritz (also , ,) 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.

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