Surlej

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

Surlej (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,the key concept of his major poetic work "Thus Spoke Zarathustra".[1]


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


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