Sovereigns of the Alpine Crown

The afternoon of the *Festa della Montagna*, five years later, was a spectacle of dazzling alpine joy that united the entire Upper Engadin in celebration. Under an immaculate azure summer sky, the village of St. Moritz and the shores of the lake had transformed into an open-air festival of traditional folk music, colorful canton banners, and joyous street parades. Five hundred feet above the valley floor, the towering granite battlements…