Urban Davos with around 13,000 permanent residents is the highest situated town in Europe. Chic shopping, bars, casino, cinema, over 100 restaurants, taverns or mountain huts, as well as theatres, museums and exhibitions awards an urban ambiance. Davos provides a wide range of offers, unmatched by any other European mountain holiday resort, and is also a holiday, sport and congress town as well as a centre for research and culture. But above all Davos is a resort for leisure and recreation: after a drive of just a few minutes from the town centre, visitors find themselves in a magnificent, untouched mountain landscape; the Davos side valleys of Flüela, Dischma and Sertig are very popular as natural oases.