Ski Area
Ski Area in Aosta Valley
8 towns
Aosta Valley holds 8 Ski Area sites inside our catalogue. All sit in the province of Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Aymavilles, Cogne, and Gressoney-Saint-Jean. 5 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
The towns
Aymavilles
Province: Aosta Valley · 646 m
A village at 646 meters above a river gorge, where the road up the valley begins and a Roman aqueduct still crosses the Grand'Eyvia on a single arch.
Cogne
Province: Aosta Valley · 1,534 m
The mining town turned capital of the Gran Paradiso, the Aosta Valley's largest commune with 95 percent of its land inside Italy's oldest park.
Gressoney-Saint-Jean
Province: Aosta Valley · 1,385 m
A Walser village in the Lys valley where Titsch is still spoken and the Lyskamm glacier closes the view.
Saint-Vincent
Province: Aosta Valley · 575 m
A belle-époque thermal town on a sunny south-facing terrace at 575m, where a mineral spring, a landmark casino, and a Matterhorn view north of town define a resort built for the 19th-century cure.
Ayas
Province: Aosta Valley · 1,710 m
A scattered upper-valley commune of three villages, where Walser settlers and Romance-speaking herders share the slopes below Castor and Pollux.
Courmayeur
Province: Aosta Valley · 1,224 m
The Italian base of Mont Blanc, the roughly 4,806-meter peak, a medieval mountain village near the Roman road over the Little Saint Bernard that became one of the country's best-known ski addresses.
La Thuile
Province: Aosta Valley · 1,441 m
Italy's gateway to the Petit Saint-Bernard pass: a 1,441m alpine village under Mont Blanc, with the Rutor glacier and its tiered waterfalls behind it and a Roman-Salassi history that goes back two millennia.
Valtournenche
Province: Aosta Valley · 1,524 m
The valley under the Cervino, home of the guides who raced Whymper up the mountain in 1865.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Monteriggioni
Province: Siena
A circular Sienese fortress built between 1213 and 1219 on a natural hill, fourteen towers on a 570-meter wall, intact and unbroken.
Calvello
Province: Potenza
A 730-meter ceramic town working clay since 1200, when Benedictines from Faenza brought the wheel south.
Termoli
Province: Campobasso
Molise's only port, a walled promontory of fishermen's houses on the Adriatic, with the ferry pier for the Tremiti islands.
Ravello
Province: Salerno
A ridge town above the Amalfi Coast where Wagner found Klingsor's garden in 1880.
Aliano
Province: Matera
The clay-hill village at 555 meters above the Agri valley where Carlo Levi served his 1935 exile and is buried in the cemetery.