Things to do
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Kirchner Museum
A glass building of 1992 holds the largest collection of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, who settled in Davos in 1918 after a breakdown and stayed until his death in 1938. His mountain work here is nothing like the Berlin street scenes he is known for, and the sketchbooks and photographs show the valley as he saw it.
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Lake Davos
The lake at the north end of the town, warm enough to swim in for a few weeks in high summer at this altitude, with a flat path around it of about an hour. It freezes hard enough for skating in a cold January.
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Jakobshorn
The mountain on the sunny side of the valley at 2,590 metres, facing the Parsenn across it, which is why the view from one is of the other. It is the snowboarders' hill in winter and the paragliding launch in summer.
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Parsenn
The ski mountain above the town, reached by a funicular of 1931 to Weissfluhjoch at 2,662 metres, with the Weissfluhgipfel cable car above it. The run down to Kublis is twelve kilometres and drops more than two thousand metres, which is the longest in the Alps outside a glacier.
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Schatzalp
Above Davos, a funicular climbs to a car-free terrace and the sanatorium of 1900 that Thomas Mann turned into the Berghof of The Magic Mountain. It has been a hotel since 1954. A short walk away, the Alpinum garden grows some three thousand five hundred mountain species from mid-May to the end of October.
