Sils (Segl)

Must-see attractions nearby: St Moritz Dorf Engadin Express (Vienna-Salzburg-St Moritz) Palm Express (rail service) Engadine Museum St Moritz Bad Segantini Museum

In both parts of Sils there are elegant houses in the style of the Engadine. Sils Maria has a Baroque church (1764), and beside the Edelweiss Hotel is a modest museum devoted to Nietzsche, who spent the summer months here from 1881 to 1889 (commemorative tablet). Sils Baselgia has a church dating from 1448. From both parts of Sils there are pleasant footpaths (15 minutes) to the wooded peninsula of Chasté (1,838 m/6,030ft; nature reserve), with scanty remains of an old castle and a Nietzsche quotation carved in the rock. On the southeast shore of the Silser See (45-minute walk) lies the hamlet of Isola (inn), which is abandoned in winter: behind it, in the gorge of the Fedozbach, is a beautiful waterfall. From here it is another 45-minute walk to the Majola pass.