. Switzerland: and the adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy, and Tyrol : handbook for travellers . Good wine, from the epis-copal cellars, at the Hofkellerei (room dating from 1522), to the left inthe Episcopal Court (see p. 403), and at Jttrimanns, Kornplatz. Post Office (PI. D, 2), Graben-Str., 5 min. from the station. The Alpinediligences start here (coinp. pp. 405, 417). Baths (swimming and other) at Willis, on the Plessur (PI. F, 4; 50 c). English Church Service at the Swiss Protestant Church. Enquiry Office at Manatschal, Ebner, <fc Co*., Post-Str. Coire, Germ. Chur (1955; pop. 12,116; 2
. Switzerland: and the adjacent portions of Italy, Savoy, and Tyrol : handbook for travellers . Good wine, from the epis-copal cellars, at the Hofkellerei (room dating from 1522), to the left inthe Episcopal Court (see p. 403), and at Jttrimanns, Kornplatz. Post Office (PI. D, 2), Graben-Str., 5 min. from the station. The Alpinediligences start here (coinp. pp. 405, 417). Baths (swimming and other) at Willis, on the Plessur (PI. F, 4; 50 c). English Church Service at the Swiss Protestant Church. Enquiry Office at Manatschal, Ebner, <fc Co*., Post-Str. Coire, Germ. Chur (1955; pop. 12,116; 2/3 Prot.), the capital ofthe Canton of the Grisons, is situated 1^4 M. from the Rhine, atthe mouth of the Schanfigg valley, which is watered by the town is dominated on the S. by the Pizokel, on the bythe Montalin, while the Calanda looks down upon it from the place of local importance in Roman times (Curia Rhaetorum), itearly became a bishopric, though no record of it as such exists priorto 452. Freed from the episcopal sway in 1464, the townsmen em- s??llill1iI- iff. Cathedral. COIRE. VI. Route 89. 403 braced the Reformation in 1524, while the occupants of the Epis-copal Court remained Roman Catholic. Broad new streets lead from the station to the old town (Alt-stadt) , in which many 16-17th cent, buildings still stand. TheRathaus (PI. 3, D, 3; entrance, Obere Reichs-Str. 50) dates fromthe 15th cent.; in the Council Chamber is some good woodenpanelling of 1583 (recently transferred hither). No. 55 in the ObereReichs-Str. is the house in which Angelica Kaufmann (1741-1807)was born. The Prot. St. Martins Church (PI. b; D, E, 3), besidewhich stands the old St. Maitins Fountain, also dates from the15th century. To the E. of the church, opposite the steps leadingto the Episcopal Court, is the Rhaetian Musium (PI. E, 3; open9-12 and 2-5; adm. 80 c, for a party 50 c. each), containing anti-quities, an old copy (1543) in grisaille of Holbeins Dance ofDeath, the c
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