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Davos Winter
Montage for the Davos article on Wikipedia. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
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BEFORE MODERN SPORT
Davos
How settlement, access and winter sport shaped Davos.
Scroll to read the contour through time
Davos (UK: , US: ; German: or ; Romansh: ; Old Italian: Tavate) is an Alpine resort town and municipality in the Prättigau/Davos Region in the canton of the Grisons, Switzerland.
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2022
Work and settlement beneath the snowline
In 2022, Davos mayor Philip Willhelm commissioned a study from historian Stefan Keller documenting the history of Nazi influence in Davos.
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1877
A route reaches Davos
In 1877, the Hotel Belvédère opened a rink used mostly by British skaters; according to figure skating historian James R.
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Bilder vom Skigebiet Davos 05
Images from the Davos ski area. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
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- Images from the Davos ski area
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ORGANISED SPORT
Winter becomes organised
Subsequently, Davos became a ski resort, especially frequented by tourists from the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
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THE LIVING MAP
The mapped place
Davos is recorded at 46.800° N, 9.836° E. Its catalogue reference reaches 2,844 metres. A modern resort map compresses terrain, exposure and access into a diagram. This exhibition keeps the underlying contour visible so the place does not become only a list of facilities.
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Davos Winter
Montage for the Davos article on Wikipedia. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
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- Montage for the Davos article on Wikipedia
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- original
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- Open-licence photograph
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TODAY
Davos now
With its long history of winter sports, Davos also has one of Switzerland's largest ski resorts and hosts the international Spengler Cup, an ice hockey tournament, every December.
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THE LEDGER
Sources and credits
This exhibition is built from local, institutional and sporting records. The source ledger keeps the claims visible and leaves space for correction as further local evidence emerges.
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Artefacts in order of appearance
Davos Winter
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Bilder vom Skigebiet Davos 05
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Editorial record
Full European Beta edition. Place evidence is adapted from the linked Davos overview under CC BY-SA 4.0 and remains subject to named historical and local review. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.