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Schiers
Schiers () is a Swiss village in the Prättigau and a municipality in the political district Prättigau/Davos Region in the canton of the Grisons. The first concrete girder bridge ever built, Salginatobel Bridge, is located in Schiers. Designed by Robert Maillart and completed in 1930, in 1991 it was the first concrete bridge to be designated an International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Landquart
river that flows northwesterly through the village of Klosters and empties into the Alpine Rhine at the town of Landquart in the canton of Grisons in eastern Switzerland
Salginatobel Bridge
reinforced concrete arch bridge near Schiers, Switzerland, designed by renowned Swiss civil engineer Robert Maillart
Drusenfluh
The Drusenfluh is a mountain in the Rätikon range of the Alps, located on the border between Austria and Switzerland.
According to the Swisstopo map, the mountain both includes the 2827 m Drusenfluh on the border and the three peaks named the Drei Türme ("Three Towers"), the highest of which (2830 m) is north of the main ridge on the Austrian site. The Drusenfluh and Drei Türme are separated by the 2637 m Eisjöchl.
Sassauna
The Sassauna is a mountain in the Rätikon range of the Alps, overlooking Schiers in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.
Schiers railway station
railway station in Switzerland