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Neighborhood Attractions In Canton of Graubunden

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The canton of Grisons, or canton of Graubünden is the largest and easternmost canton of Switzerland. It has international borders with Italy, Austria and Liechtenstein. Its German name, Graubünden, translates as the Grey Leagues, referring to the canton's origin in three local alliances, the League of God's House, the Grey League, and the League of the Ten Jurisdictions. Grisons is also home to three of Switzerland's ethnic groups, whose spoken languages—Swiss German, Italian and Romansh—are all native to the canton. It is the only officially trilingual canton and the only canton where the Romansh language has official status.
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  • 1. Old Town Chur Chur
    The Old Swiss Confederacy began as a late medieval alliance between the communities of the valleys in the Central Alps, at the time part of the Holy Roman Empire, to facilitate the management of common interests such as free trade and to ensure the peace along the important trade routes through the mountains. The Hohenstaufen emperors had granted these valleys reichsfrei status in the early 13th century. As reichsfrei regions, the cantons of Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden were under the direct authority of the emperor without any intermediate liege lords and thus were largely autonomous. With the rise of the Habsburg dynasty, the kings and dukes of Habsburg sought to extend their influence over this region and to bring it under their rule; as a consequence, a conflict ensued between the Habs...
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