Lucerne Festival

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The Lucerne Festival is a summer music festival in Lucerne, Switzerland. It was founded in 1938 and, since 2004, it has taken place at the Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre designed by Jean Nouvel. The two resident ensembles of the festival are the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival Strings and the present conductor is the Italian conductor Claudio Abbado. In addition to the performances, the Lucerne Festival Academy was founded by the composer Pierre Boulez in 2004 to train young musicians in the performance of modern music.

Davos-Klosters

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DAVOS  is a municipality in the district of Prättigau/Davos in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It has a permanent population of 11,156. Davos is located on the Landwasser River, in the Swiss Alps, between the Plessur and Albula Range. At 1,560 m, it is the highest city in Europe.

Davos is host to the World Economic Forum (WEF), an annual meeting of global political and business elites (often referred to simply as Davos) and the home of one of Switzerland's biggest ski resorts. At the end of every year it serves as the site of the annual Spengler Cup ice hockey tournament, hosted by the HC Davos local hockey team.

St. Moritz and the Glacier Express

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St Moritz  is a resort town in the Engadine valley in Switzerland. It is a municipality in the district of Maloja in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. The highest summit in the Eastern Alps, the Piz Bernina, lies a few kilometres south of the town. St. Moritz hosted the Winter Olympics in 1928 and 1948. It is a popular destination of the upper class and international Jet Set, as well as one of the most expensive ski resorts in the world.

The public transport system in Switzerland, the trains especially, mean something very special. It’s no coincidence that the Swiss are world champions when it comes to rail travel.

The Swiss Travel System includes an impressive network of 20,000 train, bus and boat kilometers and an attractive range of tickets which enables visitors from abroad to travel in comfort within Switzerland. Leave your car behind, you won’t need it anyway. The motto is "the journey is the destination", so lean back, relax and enjoy the trip when it starts right at the airport and brings you as far as the highest railway station in Europe.

And don’t forget to experience the king of Swiss trains – the panoramic trains like the Glacier Express, GoldenPass, Bernina Express & Co. are worth the journey at any time of the year. And with the family card children up to 15 years travel for free with their parents. Start planning your holidays with these exciting ticket options.

Bernina Express

Chur/Davos-Tirano

Panoramic views

Cross 196 bridges, 55 tunnels

A stunning 4h journey

Glacier Express

Zermatt-Chur-Davos/St. Moritz

Most scenic train ride

Cross 291 bridges, 91 tunnels

A fantastic 7h journey

The Glacier Express is a scenic train offering a panoramic trip through the Alps in Switzerland. From the eastern to western Swiss Alps the views are amazing. The Glacier Express travels through 91 tunnels, over 291 bridges and along 2 km on the Oberalp Pass (2,044 metre-high). Main stations on the route are Zermatt, Brig, Andermatt, Chur, Davos and St. Moritz. The Glacier Express operates all year round. However in winter there are less services.

GoldenPass Line

Montreux–Interlaken–Lucerne

Panoramic views

Vaud Riviera to Lake Lucerne

A unique 6-hours train travel