Above the old town is the court district with its canons' houses, the episcopal palace and the cathedral.

The courtyard district is located above the old town. Via a staircase and through a gate tower, which has a Gothic drinking room, you reach an ascending triangular square flanked on both sides by the canons' houses.

At the top left, the square is closed off by the episcopal palace. The secular counterpart to the cathedral received its present form under Bishop Joseph Benedikt von Rost (reigned 1728-54). The complex is built around an inner courtyard. The façade, which only has three window axes, is divided into two wide sections and a narrow central section by rising pilasters, with the two side sections crowned by gables and the central section by a lucarne-like attachment. For reasons of symmetry, a counterpart was added to the left portal on the right, although this only forms the entrance to a coach house. Bronze lion masks serve as ring holders on the doors. The doors and windows are decorated with stucco. Joseph Benedikt von Rost came from Tyrol and it is not surprising that his work is influenced by Austrian Baroque. The bishop succeeded in detaching the building from the shadow of the cathedral and giving it a dominant accent. Nowhere else in Graubünden can we find such rich sculptural exterior decoration.


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