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Selva Gardena is the largest town in the Val Gardena area, which it shares with Ortisei and Santa Cristina. Overlooked by the dramatic Dolomites, this area is home to 175km of slopes, though ...
Mont Blanc in Aosta Valley, the highest point in the European Union Blue Lake [11] and the Matterhorn. The Aosta Valley is an Alpine valley which, with its tributary valleys, includes the Italian slopes of Mont Blanc, Monte Rosa, Gran Paradiso and the Matterhorn; its highest peak is Mont Blanc (4,810 m or 15,780 ft).
Skyway Monte Bianco is a cable car in the Italian Alps, linking the town of Courmayeur with Pointe Helbronner on the southern side of the Mont Blanc massif. Taking over three years to construct, it opened in 2015 at a cost of 110 million euros, and is considered to be the world's most expensive cable car installation.
Aosta lies on the crossroad of two major trans-alpine trunk roads: national road 26 (Italian: SS26, French: RN26 [15]) connecting the city of Chivasso to Little St Bernard Pass on the Italy-France border, and national road 27 (Italian: SS27, French: RN27 [16]) connecting the city of Aosta to the Great St Bernard Pass on the Italy-Switzerland ...
The valley was for a long period a site of exchange—or of conflict—with the neighbouring Valais. In the Middle Ages the valley was a possession of the lords of Quart , which they granted to the noble family of the district known as La Tour-de-Valpelline (or La-Tour-des-Prés ).
It lies at an altitude of 1568 metres in a broad flat part of the upper Ayas valley. Above Champoluc, to the East, is the Plan du Crest (1975 meters), one of the largest ski areas in the Aosta Valley, reachable by cable car from the centre of the village. In summer, the Crest is a popular place for hiking.
Gran Paradiso National Park (Italian: Parco nazionale del Gran Paradiso; [2] French: Parc national du Grand Paradis), is an Italian national park in the Graian Alps, between the Aosta Valley and Piedmont regions. [3] The park is named after Gran Paradiso mountain, which is located in the park; it is contiguous with the French Vanoise National Park.
Valpelline (local Valdôtain: Vapeleunna) is a town and comune in the Aosta Valley region of north-western Italy This page was last ...