Travel
Thanks to progressive treatment
methods, Davos looks unlike a typical
Swiss Alpine village. Instead, there is
unique architecture found throughout
the city. Minimalistic buildings feature
large windows designed to allow for
th
o t n i ht to oo anatori
rooms, rather than small ones to keep
the cold out. Essentially plain cubes,
these unornamented buildings were
i n at roo to h
r
nt
avalanches, as well as south-facing
sun terraces. By 1910, there were
26 sanatoriums, convalescent homes,
private guesthouses and 46 hotels
i t to tr at tho
ff rin ro
illnesses such as tuberculosis.
Davos is now also a mecca for winter
sports lovers. With skating on Davos
Lake since the mid-1860s and curling
since the late 1880s, the town made
its mark in the skiing world with the
Parsenn funicular in 1931. This was
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