Bad Ragaz - Porta Romana - Pfäfers - Bad Ragaz

We leave Bad Ragaz train station heading east, cross the Tamina, and hike to the Neugüter signpost. Then we head south to Rosenbergli. Here begins the climb to Porta Romana, the former Roman military and trade road. In the small vineyard area, the "Portaser" grape is grown.

Soon our gaze falls on the St. Georg chapel built on rocks from 1430 and on the ruins of the former Wartenstein fortress, which was built in 1206 on the orders of Abbot Konrad of Zwiefalten as a stronghold against the protectorate of the monastery.

In 1838, the monastery was dissolved and came into the possession of the canton of St. Gallen, which today uses the premises as a psychiatric clinic. After crossing the village, we take a look into the Tamina valley, then follow the Valur path downstream. On a safe path along the upper edge of the Tamina gorge, we return to Bad Ragaz - directly to the entrance of the Tamina thermal baths, where tired legs can regenerate in comfortably warm water.

Visit the Schwitter family farm shop on the castle courtyard next to the St. Georg chapel.

Bad Ragaz (502 m) - Taminasteg (504 m) - Neugüter (505 m) - Rosenbergli (505 m) - Wartenstein Castle (730 m) - Wisli (765 m) - Pfäfers Village (820 m) - Valur (675 m) - Niklausen (550 m) - Bad Ragaz (516 m)