The golden weeks
Around Sils, the season of colour has begun. Along the shore of Lake Sils and on the slopes above Val Fex, the larches turn a little more golden every day. Around mid-October the gold is at its strongest. Chesa Pool is open until 25 October, and rooms are still available for these weeks.
These days the sun rises over the ridge by the house at twenty past nine and sets behind the mountains shortly before six.
Stubete am See
For the sixth time, Sils becomes the meeting place of new Swiss folk music for three days: music rooted in tradition and entirely of today. Fourteen ensembles play twenty-two concerts in eight venues: hotels, the Open Church, for the first time the Catholic church, the Champsegl school and the Konzertplatz Fex.
The festival opens here in our valley. On Friday 16 October at 2.30 pm, Eiger, Mönch & UrSchwyz play on the Konzertplatz Fex, free of charge. On Sunday at 11.15 am, the Kristina Brunner Ensemble closes the festival at the Champsegl school with «Fahre», written especially for the Stubete, with the Engadine narrator Lorenzo Polin.
- OpeningFriday 16 October, 2.30 pm, Konzertplatz Fex, free entry
- ConcertsSingle tickets CHF 25, closing concert CHF 35
- Festival passCHF 120, valid for all concerts
The way up
Above Sils, the paths climb through the larch forest and over open slopes until the lake lies far below. With every metre it grows quieter. At some point all you hear is your own step and the wind in the dry grass.
«Only thoughts reached by walking have value», wrote Nietzsche, who spent hours on foot almost every day of his summers in Sils. One often comes back from such walks quieter than one set out.
- MarmorèA good 350 metres above the house. From up there the whole valley lies before you: the meadows, the stream, the houses of Fex and Lake Sils beyond.
- To the end of the valleyAlong the Fex stream, past Fex Crasta and Fex Curtins to the Plaun Vadret plain below the glacier, at 2,076 m. A gentle path with little climbing.
- Grevasalvas and the Via EngiadinaOn the far side of Lake Sils lies Grevasalvas, the hamlet where «Heidi» was filmed in the seventies. The Via Engiadina runs high above the lake from Maloja to Silvaplana.
Maps and suggestions for every level of fitness are waiting for you at reception.
Through the golden Engadine
On an e-bike you glide almost silently along the lakeshore, through larch woods where the light falls golden on the path, past old hamlets. The climbs become easy, the distances small, the landscape stays vast.
In a single afternoon, Val Fex, Lake Sils and the road towards Maloja lie behind you. What remains is the scent of the forest, the sound of the water and this light that only October brings.
- Into Val FexUp the car-free road to Fex Curtins, between golden larches and the old houses of Fex.
- Along Lake SilsTowards Maloja and Silvaplana, with the lake always in view.
- Renting an e-bikeWe are happy to tell you at reception where to rent an e-bike in Sils.
A room, a table, a gift.
We reopen on 18 December. You can already book for the coming season.