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Hotel Solaria, BIVIO 
 
Genny & Giancarlo Torriani
Vea Valetta 113
CH - 7457 Bivio
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Distance from airport: Lugano 160 km, Zurich 190 km
Distance from railway station: Bivio-Posta (bus) 200 m; Tiefencastel 27 km
Hotel Solaria is located in Bivio, a little mountain resort on the quiet road to the Julier Pass that lies between Chur/Tiefencastel and Silvaplana/St. Moritz, Graubünden canton, Switzerland.

The cozy, family-run hotel features 3 restaurants; a hotel bar; free car parking; a big, sunny terrace; a children’s playroom; a sauna; a tanning bed and free WiFi internet in the whole building. The cozy rooms provide en suite bathroom with bath or shower/wc and hair dryer, satellite TV, radio, direct-dial phone, a safe, a minibar and mostly a balcony.

Mountain bikes are available for free. There’s a riding stable with organized one-day tours on horseback. In the summer, the resort is an ideal starting point for walks, cycling tours for all tastes, historic footpaths and fishing. Winter offers 30 km of downhill ski runs, an 8-km long cross-country ski track, ski touring, tobogganing, ice-skating etc. Excursions lead to the Engadine valley, St. Moritz, Pontresina, the Upper Engadine lakes, Bernina Pass and the more than 5'000-year-old city of Chur.

One Of Our Bedrooms

The cozy rooms provide en suite bathroom with bath or shower/wc and hair dryer, free WiFi internet, satellite TV, radio, direct-dial phone, a safe, a minibar and mostly a balcony.

Gourmet Voucher
This property participates in the Gourmet Voucher package.

Bündnerstübli
Local, Italian and international specialities tempt your taste buds in a wood-panelled ambience. Fish and game dishes when in season.

Restaurant
Our restaurants offer local, Italian and international specialities.

Enjoy our special season's offer, the "Polenta Festival" every Friday offering a wide range of different Polentas.

Or try our typical dishes such as Capuns and Pizzocheri.

Capuns is a traditional dish from the Grison made of Spätzle-pastry, enriched by herbs, finely sliced Salsiz or air dried meat from the Grison. The pastry is being wrapped up in mangold- (colloquial: Capuns leaves) or lettuce leaves. The Capuns is then being cooked and scalloped with cheese from the alps and served with a sauce made of half milk half bouillon.

Pizzocheri is a meatless dish made of potatoes, Pizzoccheri (buckwheat pasta), carrots, leave spinach, onions, garlic, peas, herbs and cheese. The potatoes, together with the Pizzoccheri, are then being cooked in salted water and thereupon mixed with the vegetables. Finally, sage and cheese are being added.

The Region

In the summer, the resort is an ideal starting point for walks, cycling tours for all tastes, historic footpaths and fishing. Mountain bikes are available for free. There’s a riding stable with organized one-day tours on horseback.

Winter offers 30 km of downhill ski runs, an 8-km long cross-country ski track, ski touring, tobogganing, ice-skating etc.

Excursions lead to the Engadine valley, St. Moritz, Pontresina, the Upper Engadine lakes, Bernina Pass and the more than 5'000-year-old city of Chur.

More about the region

Excursion

Bobsleigh in St. Moritz
If you wish to have an experience of a life time, slope down in a bobsleigh on the St-Moritz' Olympic track like Michael Schumacher does!

The team for this thrilling descent is composed with a professional pilot at the front, of a person in charge of breaking at the rear and of two seats in the middle of the bobsleigh for the customers. This descent lasts approximately 80 seconds...

You can send your request for reservation for a descent in bobsleigh to Giancarlo Torriani, Minotel owner in Bivio (first on the left of the picture), Swiss champion & Swiss vice-champion of bobsleigh for four in 1976 and champion of Europe in bobsleigh for four in 1977.

Excursions may also lead to the Engadine valley, St. Moritz, Pontresina, the Upper Engadine lakes, Bernina Pass and the more than 5'000-year-old city of Chur.

Winter

Enjoy Snow, Ski and Fun

Bivio is a very attractive and snow sure resort at 1'769 meters over sea level.
It offers best conditions for skiing, snowboarding, sliding, cross-country skiing, snowshoe hiking, ice-skating or simply going for a relaxing walk through the winter landscape.

It's the perfect winter pleasure!

Summer
During Summer you find a wide range of special offers such as hiking, guided botanic walking tours, biking or fishing.

Whether with a professional guide or on your own account, each hiker and each biker finds diversification, recreation and relaxation. Important pass crossings, trout fishing in the rivers and mountain lakes, tennis, surfing, hiking and mountain climbing.

The hotel organises every Summer guided walking tours of approximately two hours.

Horse riding: With us you will experience your horse riding holidays in a different way. The riding stable is maintained with great care and attention by Genny Torriani. Our offers reach from the hour-half day or day ride to the jovial evening ride to the alp Natons with bacon and wine. Our prime attraction is the two- respectively three- days-ride over the historic Septimer pass to the idyllic Bergell to Bondo. A unique experience!

Map & Directions

The hotel Solaria in Bivio, Grisons, is situated alongside the road to the col of Julier in Switzerland.

By car :
Take the motorway A13 joining Bellinzona with Coire/Chur and take the exit n° 22-Thusis-Süd. Continue direction St- Moritz. Bivio is situated 27 km past Tiefencastel. Turn right at the village entrance in order to reach the hotel.

By train :
The train station of Tiefencastel, at 27 km, is situated on the road axis Coire/Chur and St-Moritz. Take then the bus as far as Bivio- Posta (hourly departure, journey time 50 min.) The hotel is located after 200 m on the right.

By plane :
The airport of Lugano, at 160 km, is approached by flights from Geneva, Zurich and Rome. To reach Bivio, take the motorway as far as Bellinzona, continue on the A13 direction Coire/Chur and follow then above instructions.

From Zurich airport, at 190 km, take the motorway direction Coire/Chur and follow then above instructions.
By public transport, rejoin the train station of Tiefencastel with change of train in Zurich and Coire/Chur and follow then above instructions.

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