Filisur
Filisur is an Alpine village and former municipality in the Albula Region in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. The village sits on a hillside with a view to the west where the two rivers Albula/Alvra from the Albula Pass and Landwasser from Davos meet.- Type: Village with 458 residents
- Description: village and former municipality in Switzerland
- Also known as: “Filisur (Bergün Filisur)” and “Filisur GR”
- Postal code: 7477
Places of Interest
Highlights include Filisur railway station and Greifenstein Castle.
Filisur railway station
Railway station
Photo: Stephane205, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Filisur railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Filisur, in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. It is located at the junction of the 1,000 mm metre gauge Albula and Davos Platz–Filisur lines of the Rhaetian Railway.
Greifenstein Castle
Castle
Photo: Parpan05, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Greifenstein Castle is a ruined castle in the municipality of Filisur of the Canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. It is included on the register of the Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance.
Landwasser Viaduct
Memorial
Photo: SchmalspurDVZO, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Landwasser Viaduct is a single-track six-arched curved limestone railway viaduct. It spans the Landwasser between Schmitten and Filisur, in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Schmitten and Alvaneu.
Schmitten
Village
Photo: Parpan05, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Schmitten is a municipality in the Albula Region in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland.
Alvaneu
Village
Photo: Debianux, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Alvaneu is a village and former municipality in the district of Albula in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. On 1 January 2015 the former municipalities of Alvaschein, Mon, Stierva, Tiefencastel, Alvaneu, Brienz/Brinzauls and Surava merged to form the new municipality of Albula/Alvra. Alvaneu is situated 3 km west of Filisur.
Davos Wiesen
Village
Photo: Chriusha, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Davos Wiesen is a village and one of six parts of the municipality of Davos besides Davos Dorf, Davos Platz, Davos Frauenkirch, Davos Glaris and Davos Monstein. Davos Wiesen is situated 4 km northeast of Filisur.
Filisur
- Categories: former municipality of Switzerland and locality
- Location: Bergün Filisur, Albula Region, Graubünden, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.67378° or 46° 40′ 26″ northLongitude
9.68597° or 9° 41′ 10″ eastPopulation
458Elevation
1,026 metres (3,366 feet)Open location code
8FRFMMFP+G9OpenStreetMap ID
node 291887072OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2660776Wikidata ID
Q66214
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Filisur” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Filisur”
- Armenian: “Ֆիլիզուր”
- Basque: “Filisur”
- Catalan: “Filisur”
- Cebuano: “Filisur”
- Chinese: “菲利苏尔”
- Chinese: “菲利蘇爾”
- Chuvash: “Филизур”
- Czech: “Filisur”
- Dutch: “Filisur”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فيليسور”
- Esperanto: “Filisur”
- Esperanto: “Jenisberg”
- Finnish: “Filisur”
- French: “Filisur (Bergün Filisur)”
- French: “Filisur”
- German: “Filisur (Bergün Filisur)”
- German: “Filisur”
- Hebrew: “פיליסור”
- Hungarian: “Filisur”
- Indonesian: “Filisur”
- Irish: “Filisur”
- Italian: “Filisur (Bergün Filisur)”
- Italian: “Filisur”
- Kazakh: “Филизур”
- Korean: “필리주어”
- Lombard: “Filisur”
- Malay: “Filisur”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Filisur”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Filisur”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Filisur”
- Persian: “فیلیسور”
- Piemontese: “Filisur”
- Polish: “Filisur”
- Portuguese: “Filisur”
- Romansh: “Filisour”
- Romansh: “Filisur”
- Russian: “Филизур”
- Spanish: “Filisur”
- Swedish: “Filisur”
- Swiss German: “Filisur”
- Tosk Albanian: “Filisur”
- Turkish: “Filisur”
- Ukrainian: “Філізур”
- Upper Sorbian: “Filisur”
- Uzbek: “Filisur”
- Uzbek: “Filizur”
- Uzbek: “Филизур”
- Venetian: “Filisur”
- Volapük: “Filisur”
- Waray (Philippines): “Filisur”
- Welsh: “Filisur”
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