Key facts
- Country
- Switzerland
- Canton
- Grisons
- District
- Maloja
- Total
- 63.54 km (24.53 sq mi)
- Elevation church segl maria
- 1,809 m (5,935 ft)
- Density
- 12.0/km (31.0/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Postal code
- 7514, 7515, 7517
- Iso 3166 code
- CH-GR
- Localities
- Segl Maria, Segl Baselgia, Seglias, Val Fex as well as Grevasalvas , Blaunca and Buaira
- Surrounded by
- Bivio , Chiesa in Valmalenco (IT-SO), Lanzada (IT-SO), Samedan , Silvaplana , Stampa
- Website
- www.sils-segl.ch
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Sils im Engadin/Segl (German: Sils im Engadin; Romansh Segl), often also as Sils i.E./Segl, is a municipality and village in the Maloja Region, Upper Engadine in the Swiss canton of the Grisons.
It consists of two villages, Segl Maria (Romansh, German: Sils Maria; Seglias is part of Segl Maria) and Segl Baselgia (German: Sils Baselgia; Baselgia is Romansh for church); the Val Fex (German: Fextal); and three Maiensässe (Alpine pastures traditionally used for spring grazing): Grevasalvas, Blaunca and Buaira, above Plaun da Lej on the left side of the valley.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sils im Engadin/Segl” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.