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Chur is the easy part. The valley beyond it is what needs planning.
Chur sits in the Rhine valley where the roads to Davos, Klosters, Arosa and the Engadine all begin. Delivering to the city itself is unremarkable. Delivering to anywhere up one of those valleys is a different job, and it needs saying at enquiry stage.
The roads to Davos, Arosa and the Engadine climb steadily, narrow in places and carry hairpins that a long vehicle cannot take. A full sized lorry that managed the run to Chur may not manage the last hour of it. The city is straightforward. It sits on the A13 in the Rhine valley on flat ground, and a lorry reaching it has had an ordinary run. The old town is compact and partly restricted, which is the only real constraint, and it is a familiar one.
What makes Chur different is what it is the doorway to. Grisons is the largest Swiss canton by area and much of it is valley and mountain. Davos, Klosters, Arosa, Lenzerheide and the Engadine all lie beyond the city, up roads that climb, narrow and in winter are weather dependent.
A quote to Chur and a quote to a chalet an hour above it are not the same quote. Give the delivery address, not the region, and give it early.
Chur also appears as Coire, Coira and Cuira. Whichever version you searched for, this is the same city and the same page. Give the mover the address exactly as it appears on your Swiss lease.
These three are the ones that actually get asked about on a Chur move.
Why a valley address is priced differently.
Sharing a lorry, and where it stops working.
Furniture into a chalet, and getting it up the last stretch.
A good deal of the property in the valleys above Chur is second homes rather than principal residences, and that changes the shape of a removal. Loads are often smaller, dates are frequently tied to a season rather than a job, and the property may be empty and unheated when the crew arrives.
It also brings a legal dimension that ordinary house moves do not have. Foreign purchase of Swiss residential property is restricted, and the position differs between cantons and between principal and secondary residences. That is a question for a Swiss lawyer, not a mover, but it is worth having settled before you commit to a delivery date.
For an estate clearance running the other way, out of a valley property and back to the UK, the road works the same in reverse but the paperwork is a separate exercise.
Once you leave the Rhine valley the job changes character. The roads to Davos, Arosa and the Engadine climb steadily, narrow in places and carry hairpins that a long vehicle cannot take. A full sized lorry that managed the run to Chur may not manage the last hour of it.
The usual answer is a transfer: the vehicle stops at a practical point in the valley and the goods go on to something smaller for the final stretch. That is routine work here, but it is a separate operation and it is priced separately, so it has to be raised at enquiry rather than discovered on the day.
Winter adds timing risk rather than impossibility. The main valley roads are kept open and cleared. What changes is the confidence you can have in a precise arrival time, so build slack in rather than booking a tight chain of dates through a valley in January.
Chur itself is German speaking and everything you deal with in the city will be in German. The canton around it is not so simple. Grisons is Switzerland's only trilingual canton, with German, Romansh and Italian all in use, and the language changes as you move between valleys.
Romansh is the one people have not heard of, and it is spoken in parts of the canton with full official standing. In the southern valleys the working language is Italian instead. If your delivery address is outside the city, it is worth knowing which one applies before the paperwork is drawn up.
The city name itself carries this: Chur in German, Coire in French, Coira in Italian and Cuira in Romansh.
Somewhere else in the region? Each of these has its own detail.
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The city is not. It sits on the A13 in the Rhine valley on flat ground and the run in is ordinary, with the compact old town the only real constraint. What needs planning is anything beyond the city, up the valleys towards Davos, Arosa or the Engadine.
The vehicle usually stops at a practical point and the goods transfer to something smaller for the final stretch, because the climbing roads carry hairpins a long lorry cannot take. It is routine work here, but it is a separate operation, priced separately, and it must be raised at enquiry stage.
Yes. The main valley roads are kept open and cleared, so it is a question of timing confidence rather than possibility. A January delivery high in the canton is more likely to slip than a lowland one, so build slack into the far end and avoid booking a tight chain of dates.
Because the canton has more languages than any other. Chur is German, Coire is French, Coira is Italian and Cuira is Romansh. Grisons is Switzerland only trilingual canton, with German, Romansh and Italian all in official use, and the working language changes between valleys.
Not the removal itself, but the purchase side can be restricted. Foreign purchase of Swiss residential property is limited and the position differs between cantons and between principal and secondary residences. That is a question for a Swiss lawyer rather than a mover, and it is worth settling before you fix a delivery date.
Often, with second homes, and it is worth flagging. Goods that have travelled in a cold lorry and arrive at an unheated chalet need a chance to settle before anything is unwrapped, and a crew that knows in advance can plan the unload around it.
Yes. The road runs the same way in reverse, but the paperwork is a different exercise, because you are then dealing with import into the destination country rather than into Switzerland. Say which direction you are going at the start, because it changes who prepares what.
Collection address, the Chur delivery address, a room by room list and the window you can work with. One vetted moving company from our network checks the route and the access, then comes back to you.
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Written by Darren Benjamin, founder of International Removals Companies, who has run the business since 2010. Last checked 5 August 2026.