Spa Traditions

A sparkling champagne climate, over 320 days of sun every year and a splendidly tranquil landscape. Ideal ingredients for relaxing days on the “Top of the World”. Sheer balm for body and soul is ensured by spacious spa worlds from both western and eastern hemispheres, top-class hairdressers and oases of wellbeing. The place for it could not be more fitting: St. Moritz owes its original fame to its therapeutic spas, known for almost 3,500 years.

Evidence of this is the oldest therapeutic spa water channel of wood dating from 1466 BC. The health resort of St. Moritz was already visited for its iron-rich spring waters almost 3,500 years ago. Later, the spa Church of St. Maurice became one of Europe’s most popular places of pilgrimage. In 1519, Pope Leo X even gave total absolution to all who made the pilgrimage to the St. Mauritius Church. Renowned practitioners of homeopathic medicine, such as the Swiss Paracelsus and Italian Malacrida praised the wonderful therapeutic properties of the St. Moritz springs. Eventually, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, entire households of princes and kings travelled to the Engadin to take the waters.