Laax is a municipality in the Surselva Region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. Laax is first undoubtedly mentioned c. 1290–98 as Lag…Laax is a municipality in the Surselva Region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. Laax is first undoubtedly mentioned c. 1290–98 as Lags. Laax is first mentioned indirectly in 765 AD when Bishop Tello of Chur granted his share of Flemme to the Disentis Monastery, noting Laax in his will. The village appears in a 1290 register of the Cathedral of Chur and was officially independent by 1525 with its own parish church. In 1428, the de:Freie von Laax bought their freedom from Count[ Rudolf VII of Werdenberg-Sargans, gaining unique autonomy, freedom, and privileges such as market rights and tolls. In 1677, Udalrich de Mont, Bishop of Chur, consecrated the new church in Laax to the patrons Saint Gallus and Saint Otmar. Laax joined the Ilanz district in 1851 after the dissolution of the Laax-Seewis court, and tourism began developing in 1962 with the opening of the Crap Sogn Gion.
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