Smuggler route Maloja

The "Percorso dei Contrabbandieri - Capel, Maloja" extends over an approximately 1½-hour hike from Maloja heading south. Through an enchanted larch forest, you reach Lägh da Bitabergh, where the smuggler path ends and the mountain lake idyll invites you to rest and linger. Along the way, 17 stations offer exciting insights into the life and work of smugglers. In search of the hidden smuggled goods, you learn to orient yourself in nature, using cardinal directions and/or the position of the sun, combined with lots of movement, play, and fun in the mountains. The stations are equipped with knowledge about smuggling life and provide anecdotes from the lives of smugglers. They also convey "vital" clues, such as first aid recipes from the great outdoors.

For one and a half centuries, from the beginning of the 19th century well into the 20th century, smuggling was an important source of income for the population, especially in Bergell and the Engadin. A wide range of goods was smuggled, especially food and luxury items, which allowed good business and made life in the formerly very barren mountain valleys more pleasant.

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