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The ski week is in Valle d'Aosta, skiing for everyone - Travel

2024-02-21T09:42:15.812Z

Highlights: The ski week is in Valle d'Aosta, skiing for everyone. Courmayeur, at the foot of Mont Blanc, and Pila, connected to Aosta by a cable car with a travel time of 17 minutes. Without forgetting the smaller towns like Crévacol. Cogne and Champorcher. For lovers of downhill skiing, the Aosta Valley offers numerous opportunities, with its 19 areas and over 800 kilometers of slopes and 7 snow parks, as well as numerous off-piste itineraries for heliskiing.


From Courmayeur to Cervinia offers for a snow holiday (ANSA)


Skis for every need.

From the large international areas, such as Breuil-Cervinia and La Thuile, to the three Italian valleys embraced by Monterosa Ski, up to ski resorts such as Courmayeur, at the foot of Mont Blanc, and Pila, connected to Aosta by a cable car with a travel time of 17 minutes.

Without forgetting the smaller towns like Crévacol.

Cogne and Champorcher.

For lovers of downhill skiing, the Aosta Valley offers numerous opportunities, with its 19 areas and over 800 kilometers of slopes and 7 snow parks, as well as numerous off-piste itineraries for heliskiing.

Even if so far the winter has not provided too much snow, almost all the slopes are open and in excellent condition, attracting numerous tourists from all over Italy and abroad.

For the ski week, in addition to unlimited skiing, the Aosta Valley also offers numerous complementary activities and offers.

To encourage itineraries that are out of the ordinary and provide an authentic experience in contact with nature and away from the frenetic pace of the city, the Magic Skipass was created, which offers 6 days of skiing in 11 small areas for 100 euros (80 euros per the Under 14s).

Furthermore, the initiative also includes an hour of ski or snowboard lesson and a free night for two minors if they stay with parents in possession of a Magic Skipass.

There are 11 localities in the Aosta Valley that are joining the initiative: Antagnod, Brusson, Chamois, Champorcher, Cogne, Crévacol, Gressoney-Saint-Jean, Ollomont, Rhêmes-Notre-Dame, Valgrisenche and La Magdeleine.

The Teleskipass service has been reconfirmed, increasingly appreciated by skiers: 

it allows direct access to the ski lifts 

without having to purchase the ski pass at the ticket offices, with discounts of 5% and 10% upon reaching the fourth and eighth day of skiing.

In the Monterosa Ski area, the daily ski pass, which opens numerous slopes to skiers in three Italian valleys, including the connection to Alagna, starts from 57 euros, with prices that can increase up to 65 euros during high season periods.

But the ski resort which touches the Val d'Ayas and the Valle del Lys also offers three routes for lovers of ski mountaineering.

Access to the groomed slopes reserved for the discipline is possible thanks to the dedicated day ticket (15 euros) which allows you to use the 

Frachey-Alpe Ciarcerio funicular

, in Val d'Ayas, the 

Stafal-Sant'Anna cable car 

and the 

Stafal-Gabiet cable car

, in the Gressoney Valley.

There are four routes (tracked, marked and safe) set up in the Cervino Ski Paradise area.

But it is only one of the many offers of the ski resort, which includes four ski schools and two snow parks.

The daily ski pass starts at 59 euros, with an offer for six days at 311.50 euros, while those wishing to reach Zermatt will have to purchase the international ticket (83 euros).

Two ski schools just 20 minutes from Aosta.

Pila, famous for its slopes that are always perfectly groomed, is the ideal station for those who want to start approaching the world of skiing, but even the most experienced will be able to find slopes to their liking.

Here, the daily ski pass starts from 53 euros, with a price of 275 euros for six days.

Going up the Aosta Valley you finally arrive in Courmayeur.

The resort at the foot of Mont Blanc offers a heliski service to be able to ski on powdery snow slopes in front of the roof of Europe.

The ski pass varies from 59 to 65 euros and there is also the possibility of purchasing a ticket valid for three hours for 50 euros.

Furthermore, to be able to combine skiing with a breathtaking experience, Courmayeur offers the purchase of a daily ski pass for the price of 71 euros which also includes the ascent to Punta Helbronner with the Skyway.

Finally, in La Thuile the daily ski pass, which gives access to the international area Espace San Bernardo which also touches La Rosière, varies from 50 to 55 euros.

A peculiarity offered by the area is the possibility of snowkiting, a sport that allows you to surf on the snow using a sail, in a large area available at 2,188 meters of the Piccolo San Bernardo Pass.

Source: ansa

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