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Parc Ela

Regional Nature Park since 2012
Parc Ela is the largest nature park in Switzerland. It is located in the heart of Grisons and unites the three language cultures - Romansh, German and Italian. Nature, people, and their products make Parc Ela unique!

«Der grösste Naturpark der Schweiz.»

Parc Ela
Stradung 11
Im Bahnhof
CH-7450 Tiefencastel

Tel. +41 (0)81 508 01 12
info@parc-ela.ch
www.parc-ela.ch

Parc Ela – Switzerland’s largest Nature Park

Parc Ela is the largest nature park in Switzerland. It is located in the heart of Grisons and unites the three language cultures - Romansh, German and Italian. With steep mountain summits and open landscapes, surrounded by glaciers and mountain lakes, the park still offers a genuine feeling of the wild. In the valleys, historical villages and baroque churches remind of the earlier importance for commercial routes over the alpine passes Albula, Julier and Septimer. Nature, people, and their products make Parc Ela unique! 

The Septimer, Julier and Albula are three historically significant north-south alpine passes lying inside the Nature Park. Be it Roman cart tracks and pillars, medieval castles, baroque churches, hotels from stagecoach times or historical villages, they all testify to the rich pass history. The extraordinary cultural richness of the Parc Ela lies in the wide variety of nature. The landscape changes continually from the lowest point in the Schinschlucht (745m) to the summit of Piz Kesch (3418m). The Nature Park offers gentle hedgerow country, floral dry grasslands, rugged gorges, untouched pine forests, barren landscapes with glaciers and mountain lakes, views of high summits and an unusual variety of plants and animals. The nature park municipalities cooperate in strengthening the regional economy, protecting nature and landscape and preserving the cultural heritage.

Events & offers

Explorer tour

From the Continent into the Ocean

Parc Ela
Show Garden Don Bosco

at Lantsch/Lenz

Parc Ela
Kurhaus Bergün

A partner of the Parc Ela

Parc Ela
Hotel JUFA, Savognin

A partner company of Parc Ela’s

Parc Ela
Pass Lunghin

The only triple water divide in Europe

Parc Ela
Natura Trail - Parc Ela 2

Filisur – Crap Furò – Surava – Tiefencastel

Parc Ela
Hotel Piz Mitgel

Hotel Piz Mitgel, Savognin

Parc Ela
Graubünden Route

Section 2 Thusis–Bergün

Parc Ela
Mountain restaurant La Diala

with a view of the Ela hole

Parc Ela
Filisur

Site of national significance

Parc Ela

Regional Nature Park since 2012

Area : 659 km2
Population: 5'726
Municipalities: 6
Cantons: Graubünden

Images

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Parc Ela video

Switzerland Tourism film about the Parc Ela

Parc Ela

Stradung 11
Im Bahnhof
CH-7450 Tiefencastel

Tel. +41 (0)81 508 01 12
info@parc-ela.ch
www.parc-ela.ch