Snow activities

Located around 90km from Turin and 10km from the French border, a hamlet of Cesana Torinese, easily reachable with the A32 motorway, Sansicario is a town in the Via Lattea ("Milky Way") region which also includes Sestriere, Sauze d'Oulx and Clavi [...]

Even during the summer, the Piedmont mountains offer numerous attractions to high altitude lovers. Claviere exemplifies its versatility. A commune of Alta Val di Susa located at an altitude of 1760 metres, Claviere is a key tourist destination both i [...]

Summer ski resorts in Europe are few but well organised. You definitely won’t be disappointed by Les Deux Alpes, a French resort located in the department of Isère that attracts crowds of tourists and mountain lovers in the winter. In summer, [...]

Prato Nevoso is one of the most loved skiing resorts in Piedmont during the winter season, but is also offers excellent tourist attractions during the summer. One of the attractions that renders this destination especially popular during the summe [...]

Summer has finally arrived, but for ski-lovers there is no need at all to miss out on the excitement at high altitude. In fact, there are some locations in Europe where it is possible to practice so-called “winter sports” even in June. Switzer [...]

To ski lovers, and fans of winters sports in general, the months between the spring closure of ski resorts and their re-opening in winter feel particularly long. This is why many choose not to give up on high altitude skiing, and practice summer sk [...]

Nordic skiing, more commonly known as cross-country skiing, is one of the oldest snow activities. Before its sporting connotation, it in fact had a purely practical purpose, which was to enable movement around countries that for many months of the ye [...]

Lovers of winter sports are always looking for places to ski and snowboard, even with the arrival of spring with its warmer temperatures. And if most of the stations in Europe have kept their resorts open till the Easter weekend, thanks to the sn [...]

Practicing winter sports can be an intense passion and, often, very costly too. The cost of one day on the snow in an average location, including transportation, a ski pass and food, reaches around €100 per person. We can even name locations [...]

The Aosta Valley is a true skiing paradise: high altitude areas, perfectly snow-covered peaks 6 months a year, kilometres of trails for every type of skier, and accommodation of the highest standard. All of this enables the region to be deemed one of [...]