Route: Chur/Davos/St. Moritz > Bernina Pass > Poschiavo > Tirano (> Lugano)
The Bernina Express connects Chur in the canton of Graubünden with Tirano in the Italian Veltlin, via the Bernina Pass. It offers the most beautiful connection from the cool north to the temperate south. And the most remarkable fact here: along its route, the red train climbs to 2 253 metres above sea level, where glaciers lie.
Take a seat in one of the modern panorama coaches, and lean back. The train provides the rest. It will show you the romantic forests in the Albula valley. Traversing bridges and viaducts it will take you high above gorges and wild streams. It wants to show you the snow, up on the Bernina, and the glacier. And then it will start on its descent with you, towards the south. It will show you romantic Puschlav. It will take you to Italy, to Tirano. In summer, a coach that awaits you in Tirano will take you to Lugano.
On your return, you will say it is no wonder that "The Rhaetian Railway in the Landscape of Albula/Bernina" was incorporated into the UNESCO list of world heritage sites.
Seat reservations are mandatory and available at any train station in Switzerland and at most Swiss Travel System sales points abroad. Be sure to have valid entry documents for Italy since you will leave and re-enter Switzerland.
