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But I noticed a number of new buildings as our train slipped out of the city, sliding under the sunrise alongside Lake Zurich toward Chur, where my next connection waited.
From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2023
For decades the huge monolithic block of granite in the middle of the cemetery in the Swiss town of Chur was ignored by passers-by; no one seemed to know quite what it was.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 2023
And he sometimes bristles with righteous Roarkian anger, as when talk turns to a new facade he designed for the Grisons parliament building in Chur, Switzerland.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 1, 2016
After learning of the collection in 2009, the Grisons Art Museum in Chur enlisted Remo Stoffel, a local real estate tycoon and patron, to buy it for more than $1 million.
From Reuters • Jul. 4, 2016
From the Rathhaus at Davos or Chur they sent their nobles—Von Salis and Buol, Planta and Sprecher von Bernegg—across the hills as governors or podest�s to Poschiavo, Sondrio, Tirano, and Morbegno.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes
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