Votive offerings, swords, and needles from the Bronze Age found at the base of the springs in St Moritz indicate that the Celts had already discovered them.
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13 Facts About St Moritz
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St Moritz developed rapidly in the late nineteenth century; the first electric light in Switzerland was installed in 1878 at the Kulm Hotel, and the first curling tournament on the continent was held in 1880.
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St Moritz hosted the 1928 Winter Olympics—the stadium still stands today—and again in 1948.
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St Moritz has been the venue for many Sailing and Windsurfing World Championships.
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St Moritz has been a resort for winter sport vacations since the 19th century.
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St Moritz was the host city for the Winter Olympic Games in 1928 and 1948, one of three cities to host twice, along with Innsbruck, Austria, and Lake Placid in the United States.
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Additionally, St Moritz has hosted the FIBT World Championships a record 21 times.
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St Moritz is extremely popular in the summer months as an altitude training base for distance athletes, particularly cyclists, runners, and race walkers.
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Prominent property owners in St Moritz included Sonja Ziemann, Gunter Sachs, Herbert von Karajan, Lakshmi Mittal, Ivan Glasenberg, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Ingvar Kamprad, Helmut Horten, Giovanni Agnelli, Aristoteles Onassis and Stavros Niarchos.
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The Kulm Hotel St Moritz is a large luxury hotel in St Moritz.
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St Moritz has a subarctic climate due to its particularly high elevation near to the tree line.
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St Moritz is a regional economic centre and a tourist community.
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St Moritz is the highest town in the country with a railway station.
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