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5 unusual facts about Val Bregaglia


Bondo, Switzerland

The municipality is located near the Swiss–Italian border south of the Mera River in the Val Bregaglia (known as Bergell in German).

Bündner Nusstorte

One theory is that a baker, who had lived in France, brought nut trees back with him which he was able to plant in Val Bregaglia.

Egon Bretscher

He used to joke that his main contribution to physics occurred in the summer of 1930, when he was climbing in the Bergel region near Engadin with another student, Felix Bloch, in the Swiss Alps.

Soglio, Switzerland

Soglio lies on a ledge on the mountainside on the northern side of the Val Bregaglia (Bergell in German) above the river Maira (Mera in Italian), with views across the valley to the Bondasca glacier and the peaks of the Sciora group, Piz Cengalo and Piz Badile in the Bregaglia Range.

Stampa

The municipality is divided into two distinct territories, the smaller in the Val Bregaglia and the larger which extends from the two sides of the Maloja Pass and Engadin.



see also

Casaccia

Casaccia, Graubünden, a village in the Val Bregaglia, in the Swiss canton of Graubünden