St. Moritz 15 m) to the Lake St. Moritz shoreline provides excellent heart of the action viewing for the audience. Thanks to its favorable location, St. Moritz enjoys over 300 days of sunshine a year. Every winter it hosts the "White Turf" horse race on the frozen Lake St. Moritz attended by the international upper class. Popular pastimes include skiing, snowboarding, and hiking, and nearby there is also the world-famous Cresta Run toboggan course. The year-round population is 5,600, with some 3,000 seasonal employees supporting hotels and rental units with a total of 13,000 beds. St Moritz has a subarctic climate only
St. Moritz Ice Rink the world's largest dance halls, designed by architects Beaver & Purnell. It was the venue for the first all-Australian dance championship, and featured some of the best dance bands of Australia and America, and closed during the great depression. In 1933, the building became a film studio, Efftee Studios, for Frank W. Thring, who made some half-dozen movies in the cavernous building before abandoning the project in 1937. In 1939, businessman Henry Hans "Harry" Kleiner and his wife transformed the "Wattle Path" to an ice rink, and the St. Moritz was born. The grand opening of the St. Moritz Ice-skating