Davos

Davos is an Alpine resort town and municipality in the Prättigau/Davos Region of the canton of the Grisons in Switzerland, with a permanent population of 10,832 in 2020. It lies on the Landwasser river in the Rhaetian Alps, between the Plessur and Albula Ranges, and its municipality of about 284 square kilometres covers nearly the whole Landwasser valley. The population and administration are centred on the two adjacent villages of Davos Dorf and Davos Platz, about 1,560 metres above sea level. The village is first mentioned in 1213 as Tavaus; from about 1280 the barons of Vaz let German-speaking Walser colonists settle and gave them wide self-administration, and in 1436 the League of the Ten Jurisdictions was founded in Davos. From the middle of the 19th century it became a mountain health resort for lung patients. Since 1971 it has hosted the World Economic Forum, and it has one of Switzerland's largest ski resorts and the Spengler Cup ice hockey tournament every December.