Badrutt's Palace Hotel

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Palace Hotel

The historic Palace Hotel in St. Moritz — more recently renamed as Badrutt's Palace Hotel is an internationally known destination, famous for its glitz and glamor. It was constructed over four years and opened in 1896 as a successor to the resort hotel which invented the cold weather winter resort — the internationally famous Krup Hause.

It is owned and operated by the same Badrutts family, now in their third generation, who created winter tourism circa 1875— Invention place of the winter sports of Luge, Skeleton, and Bobsled as well as winter resorting, in general. As the historically largest and most successful hotel in St. Moritz, with decades of experience in catering to the needs of royalty, the noveau rich, and idle rich, artists, dignitaries, and performers, it has likely played a key role in development of other Alpine sports such as skiing, snow boarding, etcetera sited as it is in one of the world's premiere ski regions—most runs of which end within a few hundred meters of it's many doors in the small town.

Its founder undoubtedly built the first half-pipe luge/skeleton/bobsled run to support his guest's interests — and as a community service to prevent further injuries from sledding in the narrow streets of the village. This historic track in St Moritz is still one of the best in the world, and one of the few all-natural weather runs of it's kind.