Davos (redirected from Davos (Grisons))

Davos (dävôs`), town (1990 pop. 10,957), Grisons canton, E Switzerland, on the Landwasser River. It is a famous winter sports center and a health resort. Since 1971 (except for 2002–3), Davos has hosted the annual conference of what is now the World Economic Forum; the conference draws national leaders and business executives from around the world to the resort.

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Davos

Commune (pop., 2000: 11,417), eastern Switzerland. It consists of two villages, Davos-Platz and Davos-Dorf, located in a valley of the Alps. First inhabited by Romansh-speaking people, it was settled in the 13th century by German speakers. It became the capital of the League of Ten Jurisdictions (or Courts) in 1436 and was ruled by Austria from 1477 to 1649. After the 1860s it became a fashionable health resort, and in the 20th century it developed into a centre for skiing and other winter sports. In the 1990s Davos became famous for hosting the World Economic Forum, an annual gathering of international politicians and financiers who represented a transnational elite.

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Davos

a mountain resort in Switzerland: winter sports, site of the Parsenn ski run. Pop.: 11 417 (2000). Height: about 1560 m (5118 ft.)

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Davos 

a city in eastern Switzerland, in the canton of Graubünden. Located in the Rhaetian Alps, 1,560 to 1,574 m above sea level, in a broad valley surrounded with high mountains and covered with pine forests and alpine meadows. There are about 13,000 permanent inhabitants.

Davos is a health resort with a climate characterized by many clear bright days, the absence of wind, and intensive solar radiation. It has a moderately mild winter (the average temperature in January is -7°C) and a moderately cool summer (the average temperature in July is I2.1°C); yearly precipitation is about 900 mm. Its medicinal facilities include climate therapy, solar and air baths, hydrotherapy, and electrotherapy. There is treatment of tuberculosis of the lungs and of chronic nontubercular diseases of the respiratory tract (bronchitis, pleurisy, and bronchial asthma). Sanatoriums, boarding houses, hotels, theaters, concert halls, and sports facilities, as well as the Institute of Medicine and Mountain Climate and the Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, are located in Davos. Davos is an important center of foreign tourism and winter sports.

A. D. BORISOV