Silvaplana

Also known as Silvaplana GR, Silvaplana (Switzerland)

Silvaplana (Romansh: ) is a municipality in the Maloja Region in the Swiss canton of the Grisons and the name of a lake in the municipality.

Key facts

Swiss town.subject_name: Silvaplana
Swiss town.image_photo: Silvaplana See.jpg
Swiss town.municipality_type: municipality
Swiss town.imagepath_coa: CHE Silvaplana COA.svg
Swiss town.imagepath_flag: CHE Silvaplana Flag.svg
Swiss town.canton: Grisons
Swiss town.iso code region: CH-GR
Swiss town.district: Maloja
Swiss town.postal_code: 7513
Swiss town.municipality_code: 3790
Swiss town.area: 44.71
Swiss town.position: left
Swiss town.elevation: 1815
Swiss town.website: https://gemeinde-silvaplana.ch
Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities: Bever, Bivio, Samedan, Sankt-Moritz, Sils im Engadin/Segl

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Silvaplana (Romansh: ) is a municipality in the Maloja Region in the Swiss canton of the Grisons and the name of a lake in the municipality.

==History== thumb|left|upright|Village church in Silvaplana The first sign of a settlement in the borders of the municipality is some Roman-era broken pillars on the Julier Pass. The village church was first mentioned in 1356. A new, late gothic church was built in 1491. In 1556 the village converted to the Protestant Reformation.

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