Find information about the most beautiful winter sports resorts in Europe. From Austria to Italy to Switzerland, France and the Czech Republic.
If you want to spend your summer holidays in the mountains, Livigno is one of the ideal destinations. Livigno is part of the mountain municipality of Alta Valtellina, which is made up of 6 municipalities including: Bormio, Sondalo, Valdidentro, Valdisotto and Valfurva. It is the perfect place for mountain lovers and for those who want to relax in the cool air and...
Saalbach-Hinterglemm in the Kitzbühel Alps in Austria is best known as a winter sports resort. This is not surprising, because the alpine ski area there is one of the largest in all of Austria with around 270 kilometres of slopes. In addition, the cracks of alpine skiing meet in Saalbach-Hinterglemm every winter and compete in World Cup downhill races and other ski...
Les Deux Alpes is a small mountain community in southeastern France with less than 2,000 inhabitants. In terms of tourism, however, the place, which belongs to the arrondissement of Grenoble, has an incredible amount to offer, not only in the winter months. Les Deux Alpes, which is only 35 kilometres from the provincial capital Grenoble, is one of the most famous...
If you travel to Lech in Austria, you should give up the search for the Arlberg. For he will not find it. These seven letters stand for a region and for a passport. It is exactly 1,793 metres high and connects the provinces of Tyrol and Vorarlberg. Today, the “Arlberg” sees itself as the cradle of skiing and was apparently derived from the Arlen, a bush...
Schladming is located in the upper Enns Valley and is the tourist centre of Upper Styria. The small town has become known above all as a winter sports resort, to which the Alpine Ski World Championships in 1982 and 2013 contributed as well as the Ski World Cup races that regularly take place here. The most famous ski area in Schladming is the local mountain, the...
Chamonix is located at the foot of the highest mountain in Europe, Mont Blanc with its 4,810 meters altitude. It is therefore not surprising that both alpinists and winter sports enthusiasts appreciate the French town, which is officially called Chamonix-Mont-Blanc. It is not far from the Swiss and Italian borders. There are numerous high peaks around Chamonix, which...
Skiers from the New World find it difficult to hear the word “Sankt Anton”. And since this is obviously unchangeable, the name of the popular winter sports resort in the Alps was unceremoniously “Americanized”. Anyone who travels from the United States to the Arlberg on their skis or snowboarders speaks of “Stanton” when they mean...
The small village of Obertauern, which officially has less than 200 inhabitants, becomes an attraction for fans of winter sports from Austria, Germany and the world every year. As the ski resort that is said to have the most snow, it has been comprehensively adapted to the tourists who start their journey with the first snowfall at the latest. Obertauern is an almost...
Cortina d’Ampezzo is one of the most famous winter sports resorts in South Tyrol. Even those who have not yet strapped on their skis here often know Cortina d’Ampezzo from television, because professional alpine ski races take place every year in the municipality of just under 6,000 inhabitants, which are broadcast by several television stations worldwide...
Courchevel, a pearl in the middle of three wonderful valleys in the French Alps, adorns itself with a remarkable nickname: “St. Tropez of winter sports”. With six hundred kilometres of slopes, Les Trois Vallées is the largest ski area in the world, and Courchevel, together with its neighbours Belleville and Méribel, is proud of this superlative. This...