Pfad der Pioniere 13: Von der Hacke zum Golfschläger

Humans have shaped the landscape in the Albula Valley. Agriculture has created a rich cultural landscape. The edges of the fields are overgrown with species-rich hedges, and flower-rich semi-dry grasslands have formed on the former terraced fields. Piles of reading stones are still visible at the edges of the former fields: For centuries, farmers piled up stones there that they had collected in the field. Reading cairns that are not yet overgrown are now a home for lizards and snakes.

More recent is the landscaping for the Alvaneu golf course. For the 18-hole course, the terrain was partially modelled, and new ponds and ponds were created. Alvaneu also owes the construction of the golf course in 1996/97 and 2001/02 to the reopening of the sulphur bath. The municipality only allowed the construction of the golf course on the condition that the centuries-old bathing tradition, which ended in 1962 with the closure of the former spa, be revived.