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BARDONECCHIA SKI - VIALATTEA MOUNTAINS Your holiday TOURIST INFORMATION TO LOVE in the Alps. AND FACILITIES: ALWAYS USEFUL NEED MORE INFORMATION? Ask us and we’ll be ready to help: about museums and exhibitions, Royal Residences, castles, fortresses and abbeys, events and shows, winter and summer sports, restaurants and historic cafés. NOT SURE WHICH ACCOMMODATION TO CHOOSE? Our staff are at your disposal to help you find the place best suiting your needs. WANT TO ORGANISE YOUR STAY? We can provide you with the means necessary for making everything more convenient and simple: the Torino+Piemonte Card, guided tours and excursions. As well as tickets for shows and transport. A SOUVENIR? SNAP IT & WATCH Here you can find beautiful ones, ideal for you to remember Download the Microsoft TAG application your trip or as a gift for someone else. from http://gettag.mobiaim at the TAG trying to avoid shadows and discover all the services and SO, WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU! And remember that our offices are open year-round, ready activities that await you! to welcome you and provide all the assistance possible. Creative project: Orange Comunicazione Editorial coordination and graphic production: Turismo Torino e Provincia - Illustrated map: Fulvio Bisca Photo credits: Archivio fotografico Turismo Torino e Provincia, Città di Torino, Regione Piemonte, Bardonecchia Ski, Colomion Spa, Sestrieres Spa, Filippo Alfero (La Presse), Simon Cittati, Gian Mattia D’Alberto (La Presse), Freewhite, Matteo Ganora, Paolo Meitre Libertini, Luca Orlandini, Giorgio Perottino. 1 TORINO PINEROLO PRAGELATO SESTRIERE BARDO NECCHIA SAUZE D’OULX CESANA-SANSICARIO Sansicario BARDONECCHIA Cesana CLAVIERE A32-E70 BARDONECCHIA Cross-country Snowshoes Alpine Skiing A32-E70 Highway Roads Snowtubing Half pipe Snowpark 3 Disabled sport and equipment BARDONECCHIA CESANA CLAVIERE PRAGELATO A ski resort with more than a century of tradition, SANSICARIO Located exactly where Italy and France are joined on Pragelato is an important tourist centre in the heart of Bardonecchia caters to sportsmen and partygoers: there the Vialattea, Clavière is a charming resort offering Alta Val Chisone, with its own ski area, and connected are more than 100 kilometres (62 miles) of snow covered Cesana Torinese, a top class resort, is one of the access pristine snow and scenic ambience, with fine views to Vialattea ski system with a modern cable car lift and slopes, at an elevation of 2,800 to 1,300 metres (9,186 points to Vialattea, the world famous ski area boasting of the imposing Mount Chaberton (elevation 3,131 a brand new piste. This is a veritable cross-country to 4,265 feet), with a maximum vertical drop of 1,500 400 kilometres (250 miles) of pistes. There are two main metres - 10,272 feet). The spa centre and other skiing capital, blessed with many fantastic tracks set metres (4,921 feet), state-of-the-art ski lifts, snowboard villages in the Cesana community: San Sicario Borgo wellness facilities are the perfect place to unwind after amongst the unbelievable scenery and peacefulness of and freestyle skiing facilities without equal in Europe. The is the classical alpine old hamlet, among forests and a day of skiing, or to spend the day if your favourite the Val Troncea Park. Pragelato has managed to remain dining is superb, the nightlife is buzzing, and the enchanting majestic peaks. San Sicario Alto, right at the bottom of activity is… relaxation! a quaint mountain village, where the alpine traditions “Palazzo delle Feste” offers a full schedule of events. ski slopes, is at hand and ideal for skiing to the hotel of crafts and cuisine are preserved. door. Wilderness and isolated valleys are easy to reach Info Info from Cesana Torinese, for snowshoe excursions or backcountry skiing. • Elevation:1,760 metres (5,774 feet) Info • Ski resort: Vialattea • Elevation:1,524 metres (5,000 feet) • Elevation: 1,312 metres (4,304 feet) • Ski schools: 1 Info • Ski resort: Vialattea/Pragelatoski • Ski resort: Bardonecchia Ski • Accommodation: 9 hotels, 1 residence, • Ski schools: 2 • Ski schools: 6 • Elevation:Cesana 1,354 metres (4,441 feet) - Sansicario 5 properties of other types • Accommodation: 7 hotels, 7 aparthotels, • Accommodation: 23 hotels, 13 aparthotels, 1,700 metres (5,577 feet) • Dining&Drinking: 10 restaurants/pizzerias, 13 cafés and bars 11 properties of other types 6 properties of other types • Ski resort: Vialattea • Fun&Relax: spa resort, saunas, swimming pool, body • Dining&Drinking: 24 restaurants/pizzerias, 10 cafés and bars • Dining&Drinking: 40 restaurants/pizzerias, 24 cafés and bars • Ski schools: 2 treatments, ice-skating, Tibetan (rope) Bridge • Fun&Relax: spa resort, sauna, swimming pool, Turkish bath, • Fun&Relax: movie theatre, theatre, disco, spa resorts, gym, • Accommodation: 9 hotels, 1 aparthotels, • Sights&Curiosities: Chaberton Fortresses Jacuzzi, gym, car racing on ice track, horse riding, off-road sports hall with climbing wall, volleyball field, five-a-side and 22 properties of other types • Activities: driving centre, nordic walking regular football fields, tennis courts, ice-skating, swimming pool, • Dining&Drinking: 35 restaurants/pizzerias, 32 cafés and bars • Sights&Curiosities: Fenestrelle Fort, quaint mountain saunas, horse riding, mountain refuges providing food, adventure • Fun&Relax: fun park for the kids, mountain refuges villages, the House of the Escartons, the Alpine Folklore park, bike park providing food, adventure park, Tibetan (rope) Bridge, rafting, Museum, the Val Troncea Museum and Natural Park, the • Sights&Curiosities: Civic Museum of Religious Art, woodcarving horse riding, free climbing, bouldering, MTB, hiking, fishing Sundials Research Centre, the Tinber Art Gallery school in Melezet, Bramafam Fort and Museum for Alpine Art and • Sights&Curiosities: walk through ancient mountain huts and • Activities: Culture, geological trail, Decauville track, Woodcarving Open Air villages in Val Thures and Val Argentera Museum, Tur d’Amun archaeological park • Activities: • Activities: 5 Ski Resorts SAUZE D’Oulx SESTRIERE Pragelatoski Bardonecchia Ski Vialattea* 2.500/1.500 m 2.800/1.300 m 2.800/1.380 m Renowned as the “balcony of the Alps” because of its It’s the bright star of the Vialattea constellation, an Slopes elevation 8,202/4,921 ft 9,186/4,265 ft 9,186/4,527 ft scenic position, Sauze d’Oulx offers wonderful skiing on international ski resort since the 1930s. Sestriere has Alpine ski tracks 400 km groomed pistes through larch and fir woods. Mountain everything a modern winter holiday spot needs: a 50 km 100 km refuges serve traditional food and drinks and a warm vast array of sports facilities, top class shopping, all Cross-country tracks 26 km 26 km 51 km welcome is guaranteed. It is the liveliest town of the sorts of amenities and nightlife opportunities. But this Artificial snow 50%** 70% 70% Vialattea: a trendy and fashionable hotspot, where fashionable and very busy town hasn’t lost its magic, there is action day and night. thanks to the surrounding, unparalleled Alpine scenery. Half pipe - 1 - Info Info Snowparks - 1 4 Gondola/Cablecars 1 1 3 • Elevation:1,509 metres (4,950 feet) • Elevation:2,035 metres (6,676 feet) *The Vialattea is made of: Sestriere, Chairlifts 1 10 24 Sauze d’Oulx, Cesana-Sansicario, • Ski resort: Vialattea • Ski resort: Vialattea Clavière, Pragelato, and the French • Ski schools: 4, 1 for people with disabilities and 1 specifically • Ski schools: 6, 1 for people with disabilities and 1 specifically Ski lifts/Conveyor-belt lift 3 15 17 resort of Monginevro. devoted to Snowboarding devoted to Snowboarding **Only on cross-country skiing track. • Accommodation:37 hotels, 8 aparthotels, • Accommodation:21 hotels, 8 aparthotels, 7 properties of other types 1 properties of other types • Dining&Drinking: 26 restaurants/pizzerias, • Dining&Drinking: 34 restaurants/pizzerias, 20 cafés and bars 54 cafés and bars • Fun&Relax: sauna, swimming pool, Turkish bath, solarium, • Fun&Relax: spa resorts, sauna, Turkish bath, solarium, Jacuzzi, body treatments, movie theatre, disco, ice rink, Jacuzzi, body treatments, disco, mountain refuges providing sports hall with fitness centre, five-a-side football, volleyball, food, sports hall with five-a-side football, volleyball, basketball, tennis courts and indoor rock climbing, sleddog, basketball, tennis courts and gym, heli-ski, freeride, horse summer bike park riding, summer bike park, adventure park, Tibetan (rope) • Sights&Curiosities:Fenestrelle Fort, Champlas Seguin, PRAGELATOSKI Bridge Champlas Janvier and Champlas du Col mountain villages, • Sights&Curiosities:Jouvenceaux old town, Monfol reachable only by skis or snowshoes, through Monterotta mountain village, Gran Bosco di Salbertrand Park and Forest, natural area Chalet Mollino, Muse’ò Land Art • Activities: • Activities: Ski & Chairlifts PRAGELATOSKI BARDONECCHIA SKI VIALATTEA 7 Pragelatoski srl Colomion Spa Sestrieres Spa T. +39.0131.222114 T. +39.0122.99137 T. +39.0122.799411 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.bardonecchiaski.com www.vialattea.it BARDONECCHIA SKI be au vo ir 9 VIA LATTEA 11 FUN ON THE SLOPES Our Alps are the dreamland of all alpine Snowboard enthusiasts will find this the ideal The cross-country skiing tracks are open from Snowshoes are the perfect way to enjoy skiing enthusiasts, encompassing the spot for some serious fun: Bardonecchia the first November snow to the long, sunny the peaceful ambiance of mountain forests, Vialattea area (Sestriere, Sauze d’Oulx, boasts the only Olympic Half Pipe in Europe, days of April, unwinding through charming where noise is muffled by the snow. Clavière, Cesana-Sansicario, Pragelato and on a par with Nagano, Salt Lake City and scenery in the tranquillity of the mountains. Nowadays, this traditional footwear is Monginevro resorts), the Bardonecchia area Vancouver. If you enjoy freestyling, this is just Pragelato is the ideal place, well known to lighter and more technically advanced, (Jafferau, Melezet and Campo Smith resorts), the place to be: there are five dedicated snow amateurs and professional athletes thanks granting everyone a pleasurable experience.