I actually looked at Soglio for Accom but there was nothing that really suited, I had no idea it was that sort of town!
its now locked into the itinerary, these are the places I am looking for
thankyou!!
Only a 10-min stop along the way...and well worth it.... is Casaccia at the foot of the Maloja Pass.
https://goo.gl/maps/i12SYKspg4P2
Coming down the last hairpins, there's a funny tower standing in the middle of a paddock to the west. Here's the only thing I can find online in a jiffy
http://bit.ly/1r2vWF3
Looking at the map below, I circled the tower (footpath leading to it), the zigzag dirt road is the bottom end of the Septimer Pass, an old Roman Passroad , still partially terraced and flag-stone paved with the odd self-supporting bridge, all of it "oxen-width"...6ft.
The tower in Casaccia is the only leftover of a small castle, which mainly acted as a toll-collecting station for the use of the passroad.
Yep, the Romans had it loooong before CityLink...2000 years or so
Definitely worth a quick stop and short walk up the "Ruina".
More info on the "Via Bregaglia" here.
http://www.viabregaglia.com/eng/route/00/
The valley turns from Italy-into-Switzerland in Castasegna...try to find accom at the Italian side of the little town...it's quite a bit cheaper.
At the western end of Chiavenna (a few k's down the road)
http://bit.ly/1TIZsI9 Camera e colazione= B+B....Mezza pensione = Halfboard....
Pensione completa = full board (brecky/lunch/dinner)
And where ever possible, follow the signs into/ through the little towns (that's actually the old road in that narrow valley), the new bypass-road is quicker but misses all the gorgeous, old + narrow stuff and the actual towns themselves.
If you would end up with about 2hrs spare from Soglio....there's a gently sloping walk through all those chestnut plantations down to Castasegna.
Best is to leave the car in Stampa in the main valley, take the regular Swiss Post-Bus to Soglio, get out at the midway stop, walk ~60mins behind the waterfall and into Castasegna through the meadows and past the tiny storage sheds on their "rock-feet", take the next bus back up-valley to Stampa again.
It makes for an afternoon that'll never be forgotten...and you're there at the best time of year.
http://www.viabregaglia.com/eng/route/00/
Glurns, eh?
Just tell me how much time you've got
Sorry to Rudi for derailing the thread, but this sort of stuff doesn't come along often (enough