Surlej


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,the key concept of his major poetic work "Thus Spoke Zarathustra".