Chur

Chur is the capital and largest town of the Swiss canton of the Grisons and lies in the Grisonian Rhine Valley, on the right bank of the Rhine where the river turns north. It is reputedly the oldest town in Switzerland, with archaeological evidence of settlement from the Pfyn culture of 3900 to 3500 BC, and the Romans made the settlement of Curia Raetorum the capital of the province of Raetia prima late in the third century. In the fourth century it became the seat of the first Christian bishopric north of the Alps. The former municipalities of Maladers and Haldenstein merged into Chur in 2020 and 2021, and Tschiertschen-Praden followed on 1 January 2025.