Samaden: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

You can rent a holiday apartment in Samaden. The old village centre of Samedan, with Crappun, Crasta and Surtuor, contains well-preserved Engadine houses from the 16th and 17th centuries featuring bay windows and decorative sgraffiti. This is well suited to a trip focused on architecture and local history.

Culture

Historic transit routes, agriculture and mining contributed to Samedan’s prosperity and to the construction of patrician and stately Engadine houses in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.

The old Engadine houses are associated, among others, with the reformer and Bible translator Giachem Bifrun and the Jenatsch family.

Sass Alv, Piz Utèr and Sass Nair are located in the vicinity of Samedan.

Piz da las Blais is located in the area surrounding Samedan.

Samedan is a village and political municipality in the Swiss canton of Graubünden, lies in the Upper Engadine and belongs to the Maloja Region.

History

Historically, Samedan was important as a transport hub: routes from south to north and from east to west crossed here over the passes used by mule trains.

The Church of San Peter in Samedan is the subject of Archaeology Graubünden, a publication by the Archaeological Service of Graubünden.

The restored La Tuor watchtower in Surtuor was first documented in 1281 and served as the seat of the Lords of Samedan before later being used as a court and prison.

Further destinations for planning your trip: Castasegna, Silvaplana, Casaccia, Sils in the Engadine, Sils/Segl Baselgia, Pontresina, S-Chanf, Bever.

For the higher-level travel overview: Maloja.