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Ski: Courmayeur, Italian high mountain

2022-12-28T18:32:28.792Z


TRACKING GAMES IN EUROPE (4/6) - Panoramic skiing, welcoming Valdôtains, inspired gastronomy and refined après-ski… We have returned from the Val d'Aosta charmed, with snowflakes in our eyes!


Grandvalira (Andorra), Hemsedal (Norway), Kranjska Gora (Slovenia), Courmayeur (Italy), Laax (Switzerland) and finally, Ischgl (Austria).

These six winter sports resorts, outside the agreed circuits, cultivate the pleasure of skiing.

A discovery as much as a beautiful trip...

In Courmayeur

“Blast this Mont Chétif,”

Mussolini reportedly said, frustrated at not seeing Mont Blanc from the city center.

Brought to their senses by some notables who accompanied him and explained to him that this mountain would carry the city away by collapsing, Mussolini spared Courmayeur, failing to spare himself ridicule.

It generated one of the myths that are told in three languages ​​- Italian, French and patois - from generation to generation but which are not found in history books.

The town of 3,000 inhabitants, clinging to the foothills of Mont-Blanc, dominates the Aosta Valley in northwestern Italy.

Its history begins in Antiquity, when the Romans discovered the warm waters of Pré-Saint-Didier...

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Source: lefigaro

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