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Surlej

Coordinates: 46°27′N 9°48′E / 46.450°N 9.800°E / 46.450; 9.800
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Surlej (Silvaplana)

Surlej is a village in Graubünden, Switzerland. It is located close to Sankt Moritz and Silvaplana.

The town is known for having had Friedrich Nietzsche among its visitors; the philosopher spent every summer from 1883 to 1888 there. He often sat on a stone on the shore of Lake Silvaplana, where he came up with the idea of eternal recurrence, one of the key concepts of his major poetic work "Thus Spoke Zarathustra".[1]

46°27′N 9°48′E / 46.450°N 9.800°E / 46.450; 9.800


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  1. ^ "Nietzsche rock in Surlej by the waterfall:". www.outdooractive.com. Retrieved 2020-02-02.