Bad Ragaz - Porta Romana - Pfäfers - Bad Ragaz

We leave the Bad Ragaz train station in an easterly direction, cross the Tamina and hike to the signpost Neugüter. Then it's south to the Rosenbergli. This is where the ascent to Porta Romana, the former Roman military and trade route, begins. In the small wine-growing area, the "Portaser" is cultivated.

Soon our gaze falls on the chapel of St. George built on rocks from 1430 and on the ruins of the former fortress Wartenstein, which was built in 1206 by order of Abbot Konrad von Zwiefalten as a bulwark against the patron bailiffs of the monastery.

In 1838 the monastery was abolished and came into the possession of the Canton of St.Gallen, which today uses the premises as a psychiatric clinic. After crossing the village, we take a look at the Tamina Valley, then we follow the Valurweg downhill. On a safe path at the upper edge of the Tamina Gorge we return to Bad Ragaz - directly to the entrance of the Tamina Therme, where the strained legs can be regenerated in the pleasantly warm water.

Visit the farm shop of the Schwitter family in the castle courtyard next to the chapel of St. George.

Bad Ragaz (502 m) - Taminasteg (504 m) - Neugüter (505 m) - Rosenbergli (505 m) - Wartenstein Castle (730 m) - Wisli (765 m) - Pfäfers Dorf (820 m) - Valur (675 m) - Niklausen (550 m) - Bad Ragaz (516 m)