Pontresina
Sign in to savePontresina () is a municipality in the Maloja Region in the canton of the Grisons in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss municipality.subject_name
- Pontresina
- Swiss municipality.image_photo
- Pontresina Dorf.jpg
- Swiss municipality.image_caption
- Pontresina in August 2010
- Swiss municipality.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss municipality.imagepath_coa
- CHE Pontresina COA.svg
- Swiss municipality.imagepath_flag
- CHE Pontresina Flag.svg
- Swiss municipality.canton
- Grisons
- Swiss municipality.iso code region
- CH-GR
- Swiss municipality.district
- Maloja
- Swiss municipality.postal_code
- 7504
- Swiss municipality.municipality_code
- 3784
- Swiss municipality.area
- 118.24
- Swiss municipality.elevation
- 1805
- Swiss municipality.website
- www.gemeinde-pontresina.ch
- Swiss municipality.neighboring_municipalities
- Lanzada (IT-SO), La Punt Chamues-ch, Livigno (IT-SO), Madulain, Poschiavo, Samedan, Zuoz
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- Twin town
- Demographics
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- Heritage sites of national significance
- Notable people
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Pontresina () is a municipality in the Maloja Region in the canton of the Grisons in Switzerland.
==History and name== thumb|left|Pontresina c. 1870, with Val Roseg and [[Roseg Glacier. Etching by Heinrich Müller]] Pontresina was first mentioned in medieval Latin documents as ad Pontem Sarisinam in 1137 and de Ponte Sarraceno in 1237. The name consists of the Latin word for bridge, pons (accusative form: pontem), and the male personal name Saracenus, which was widely known in the Engadin valley. The earlier assumption that the name was connected with the Saracens has been discarded.