The Wakker Prize 2025 is awarded to the municipality of Poschiavo (GR). By awarding it this prize, Swiss Heritage celebrates the small Graubünden town of 3,500 inhabitants as a model of harmonious interaction between tradition, development and a sense of community.
The 2025 Wakker Prize awarded to Poschiavo GR
The municipality of Poschiavo, in Graubünden, takes advantage of its peripheral location as an opportunity and combines autonomy, building culture and sustainable development to make it a model mountain. For the members of the Wakker Prize commission, the city is a model of the future for mountain regions. Historic buildings, contemporary architecture, innovative projects as well as a local cultural offer create a remarkable quality of life and fight against the rural exodus. This is why Swiss Heritage pays tribute to Poschiavo by awarding him the 2025 Wakker Prize.
14.01.2025
Poschiavo makes its peripheral location an opportunity, explains Swiss Heritage on Tuesday. By combining autonomy, construction culture and sustainable development, this municipality in Graubünden is establishing itself as a model of the future for mountain regions.
Historic buildings and contemporary architecture, innovative projects as well as a varied cultural offering contribute to the quality of life and help to counter the exodus of residents.
Elegant patrician houses, the “Palazzi”, combined with clearly visible urban development, have earned Poschiavo its inclusion in the Federal Inventory of Built Sites to be Protected in Switzerland (ISOS).
