Chur's art gallery is in the city center; admission, $6.50. A cable car from the city up to a ridge with three peaks called Dreibuendenstein, with good walking and skiing trails, costs about $17.50.

Tracing back 5,000 years, picturesque Chur - pronounced ‘Kooor’ by the locals - is the oldest city in Switzerland. In the car-free medieval old town, tall skinny buildings are wrapped in ...