The railway line linking St Moritz and Tirano in Italy was declared a Unesco World Heritage site in 2008.

This last takes its title from a village in the neighbourhood of Tirano, where a table-wine is chiefly grown.

In favourable weather the whole journey from Tirano would have occupied at least four days, with scanty halts at night.

The district where the wine of Valtellina is grown extends, roughly speaking, from Tirano to Morbegno, a distance of some fifty-four miles.

Sculptured figures of the sun and moon, such as I have already mentioned, are found near Caycara, at the Cerro del Tirano.

The Italian revenue derives a large profit from the frontier dues paid at the gate between Tirano and Poschiavo on the Bernina road.