Silvaplana
Sign in to saveSilvaplana (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.