Description Valtournenche, Italy

Valtournenche - a small village, located 10 km from Cervinia. It has everything you need for a good holiday - shops, bars, restaurants and good trails for riding. Hotels in VALTOURNENCHE built in traditional alpine style. Rates at this resort is lower than in Cervinia. Ski area - shared with Chervin, because Valtournenche connected to a common lift system with lines of Cervinia and Zermatt.

Valtournenche located 187 km from Milan, Turin, 116 km, 100 km from Geneva. Prior to Cervinia from VALTOURNENCHE can be reached by bus.

Characteristic lines

For professionals the choice is rather limited, although you can still find a few dynamic and steep trails. One of them - Bardoney (Bardon). It is interesting, although somewhat short. Still, the main pleasure for professionals - is riding on Swiss territory.

For intermediates Cervinia - this is what you need. There are a lot of long, sloping trails. They - a good place for skiers who prefer to drink a glass of mulled wine and slowly roll down the hill, squinting in the sun.

For beginners in Cervinia are also many trails. Feature of the resort that the blue trails are virtually all slopes that can travel the whole resort, and not go down all week with the same slope.

For snoudordistov in VALTOURNENCHE provided Bord park on the Plateau Rosa, fan parks, Half-pipes and slopes Boarder cross on the Swiss side of the resort.

Also on the territory of the resort are a sports complex with swimming pools.

Ski resort is situated at an altitude of 2,006 m in the foothills of Monte Chervin (4478 m). All the tracks are superbly trained, well equipped, extremely refined and modernized.

The total length of tracks on the Italian territory is 247 km, 15 of them are blue (84 km), 33 red (150 km) and 6 black (13 km) of tracks. At an altitude of 2555 m is snowpark. There is a playground for children. The length of the trails for cross-country skiing is 12,5 km.

The pride of the resort - 22-mile descent from the Klein Matterhon (3886 m) and the possibility of skiing in Zermatt (Switzerland) - 110 km of tracks. The resort is served: 3 telekabiny, 2 cable car, 13 chairlifts, 12 ski tows, as well as 20 snow cannons.