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Schatzalp

Berghotel Schatzalp, Schatzalpweg Belle Époque Swiss $$$

1,861 metres above Davos — the 1900 Belle Époque sanatorium that inspired Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, with Davos's most photographed dining terrace.

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8.6
Food
9.7
Ambience
8.6
Value

About Schatzalp

The Berghotel Schatzalp is a 1900 Belle Époque sanatorium on a south-facing plateau 1,861 metres above the Davos valley — accessed by the original 1899 funicular running up from Davos Platz — and is the architectural masterpiece of the resort. The hotel was the model for Thomas Mann's 1924 novel 'Der Zauberberg' (The Magic Mountain), which is set explicitly at a Davos tuberculosis sanatorium and won Mann the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature. The hotel was converted from sanatorium to hotel in 1954 and has run continuously since.

The cuisine is contemporary Swiss-Alpine. Chef Andreas Schweizer runs a deliberately classical