12 million Swiss francs for tourism around Landwasser Viaduct
A tourist «experience area»—the Landwasserwelt—is to be created around the historic RhB Landwasser Viaduct. To this end, the Graubünden government and the RhB approved loans totaling 7.4 million francs on Thursday. The project, with a total budget of 12 million Swiss francs, is scheduled to open in the summer of 2024.
A converted "train shuttle" is planned from Filisur to the Landwasser viaduct. For this, stops and edges, as well as a viewing platform must be built. Furthermore, an adventure farm is to be built below the viaduct, as the RhB wrote in a statement on Thursday.
A tree glider, a model railway park and adapted existing offers are to round off the project. The aim is to make the area around the Unesco World Heritage site a tourist experience and to bring added value to the region, Simon Rageth of RhB's corporate communications told Keystone-SDA.
System-relevant infrastructure
The RhB allocated 4.5 million francs for the project on Thursday. The Graubünden government classified the project as system-relevant and approved 2.9 million francs. The rest will be contributed by several local communities and private individuals.
The next step is the approval process. The project is being led by the Landwasserwelt association, which was founded specifically for this purpose. It consists of the RhB, the local communities and tourism partners.
The association markets the Landwasser Viaduct as "the landmark of Graubünden". With the positioning as a railroad valley and an overall product around the world-famous viaduct, the region has a unique selling point, it said in a statement in March this year. In order to use the potential, however, the forces must be bundled.
The fact that the timing around the announcement of the credits was so close to the RhB's successful world record was a "nice coincidence," Rageth said. On Saturday, the Rhaetian Railway ran the world's longest passenger train over the Landwasser Viaduct (Werbewoche.ch reported). (SDA)
