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St. Anton seen from the main piste into the centre of town. Sankt Anton am Arlberg , commonly referred to as St Anton , is a village and ski resort in the Austrian state of Tyrol . It lies in the Tyrolean Alps , with aerial tramways and chairlifts up to 2,811 m (9,222 ft), yielding a vertical drop of 1,507 m (4,944 ft).
How to ski in St Anton. Inghams is offering seven nights at the contemporary Chalet Albona in the Gastig area of St Anton from £799pp, chalet board catering, based on two adults sharing. Think ...
The Ski Arlberg ski area is situated in the Arlberg massif in the states of Vorarlberg and Tyrol ().. Since the winter of 2013–14, the villages of Lech, Oberlech, Zürs and Zug have been linked to the Warth-Schröcken ski area which makes Ski Arlberg the largest connected ski area in Austria.
Today, the contiguous ski resorts on three mountains around Lech and Zürs, the Arena on Gampen, Kapall, Galzig and Valluga above St. Anton and St. Christoph, form a ski resort with 87 lifts, 305 km of groomed slopes and 200 km of deep snow slopes. [2] Thanks to the many winter sports enthusiasts, tourism at the Arlberg is of great importance.
Ski resorts in the world by country. A ski resort is a resort developed for skiing, snowboarding, and other winter sports.In Europe, most ski resorts are towns or villages in or adjacent to a ski area–a mountainous area with pistes (ski trails) and a ski lift system.
The first edition of the race was held in 1928 in St. Anton, in the Arlberg district of Austria. The location originally alternated between St. Anton and Mürren, Switzerland. [1] Later, it began to be held in other locations as well, such as Chamonix, France, [2] Sestriere, Italy, and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. [3]
Sankt Anton im Montafon is a town in the Montafon valley in the district of Bludenz in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg. It is a popular ski resort , and much of the population makes a living from tourism .
St. Anton provides long-distance connections only, since regional traffic on the Arlberg mountain section was abandoned completely. In the winter season it is an important station for special ski trains from Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands whereas in the summer season it is even a scheduled stop of the Orient Express. It is serviced by: