All the best ski resorts in Italy to live a perfect winter vacation
Rough guide on all winter sport locations
The Skiing season is started. If you need a general view on what are the best ski spots of Italy, then have a look on this comprehensive list of skiing resorts.
There are giant ’ski factories’ with overcrowded pistes, less know resorts and sometimes unexpected (See Mount Etna or Tuscany).
The alpine mountain regions
It’s clear that the the best resorts are located in the Italian Alps.
The alps are a mountain chain that comprises 6 Italian regions.
- Aosta Valley: Gran Paradiso, The Matter-horn, The Mont Blanc and the Monte Rosa
- Piedmont
- Lombardy
- Veneto: Tre Cime di Lavaredo, Cortina d’Ampezzo, the Dolomites, Cadore, Valle d’Ampezzo, Comelico, Marmolada and Mt Cristallo.
- Trentino - Alto Adige: Adamello-Presanella, Cevedale, the Brenta Dolomites, the Val di Fassa Dolomites, the Lagorai and the Pale di S.Martino chains.
- Friuli Venezia Giulia: Carnia, the Tarvisio, the Julian Alps, Piancavallo, the Friulian Dolomites of Valcellina and Val Colvera, Val Tramontina, Val Cosa and Val D’Arzino.
Most popular ski resorts and stations
Courmayeur. Courmayeur is an Italian town and commune in the autonomous region of Aosta Valley, in northern Italy. It is located at the foot of Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in Europe, in the Graian Alps range, and is crossed by the Dora Baltea.
- Breuil - Cervinia. Breuil-Cervinia is a renowned high mountain alpine resort in the Valle d’Aosta autonomous region of Italy. Situated at 2,006 meters (6,581 ft) above sea level, just under the Cervino mount.
- Livigno. Livigno is a town in the Alps. It belongs to the province of Sondrio, in the region of Lombardy.
- Sauze d’Oulx. Sauze d’Oulx is a town in the province of Turin, Piedmont. It was the site of the Freestyle Skiing events of the 2006 Olympic Winter Games. It is part of the Via Lattea (Milky Way) skiing area.
- Sestriere. Sestriere is an alpine village in the Province of Turin. Sestriere is a popular skiing resort. It is part of the Via Lattea (Milky Way) skiing area.
- Cortina. Cortina d’Ampezzo is a town in the province of Belluno, Veneto. Located in the Dolomites, it is a popular winter sport resort.
- Arabba. Is a town in the hearth of the Dolomites at 1602 meters.
- Canazei di Fassa. Canazei is a village in the province of Trento in the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. It’s a traditional ski resort with 175km of pistes.
Bardonecchia. Bardonecchia is a town located in the Province of Turin, in Piedmont. The town hosted the snowboarding events of the 2006 Winter Olympics.- Val Gardena. The Gardena Valley is a valley in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. It is one of the five valleys in the Dolomites.
- Bormio. Bormio is a town located in the province of Sondrio, Lombardy (Italian Alps at the top of the Valtellina valley).
Skiing areas
Skiing resorts in the Dolomites
Cortina d’Ampezzo
- San Vito di Cadore
- Borca di Cadore
- Misurina
- Cortina d’Ampezzo
Val Gardena
- Santa Cristina
- Selva Gardena
- Ortisei
- Val Gardena
Madonna di Campiglio
Val di Fassa
- Val di Fassa
- Alba di Canazei
- Canazei
- Campitello di Fassa
- Pozza di Fassa
- Vigo di Fassa
- Mazzin di Fassa
- Pera di Fassa
- Soraga di Fassa
- Passo San Pellegrino
- Moena
- Fontanazzo
San Martino di Castrozza
Lagazuoi
Aosta Valley
- La Thuile
- Courmayeur
- Pila
Monterosa
- Alagna Valsesia
- Champoluc
- Gressoney
Alta Valtellina
- Livigno
- Bormio
- S. Caterina Valfurva
- S. Antonio
- Isolaccia
- Semogo
Malga Ciapela – Marmolada
- Malga Ciapela
- Bosco Verde
- Rocca Pietore
Val di Fiemme
- Pampeago
- Carano
- Daiano
- Tesero
- Ziano di Fiemme
- Castello di Fiemme
- Molina di Fiemme
- Capriana
- Predazzo
- Cavalese
Val di Sole
- Val di Sole
- Marilleva
- Folgarida
- Vermiglio
- Cusiano di Ossana
- Mezzana
Val Pusteria
- Terento
- Villabassa Dobbiaco
Valtournenche
- Antey St. Andre
Altopiano della Paganella
- Altopiano della Paganella
- Fai della Paganella
Ski vacation package ideas
- Snowshoes at the discovery of Mount Etna: An easy 8 days of snow trails in the paths that connect the Mount etna and the Nebrodi Mounts in Sicily
- Dolomiti safari: An easy Cross country skiing tour of 8 days from Sextner to Toblach. Along the former railway that crossed the Dolomites
Map of the best winter sport stations
List of the smaller ski resorts
Here the list of all skiing regions of Italy. Click on the link to start a Google search to find more info.
Read more
- All ski resorts + official websites info
- Snow forecast for 197 Italian skiing resorts
- Skiing in Europe 5 resorts that rock
- Top 10 resorts for crowd free skiing
- Skiing on Etna
- Top 10 ski destinations in Europe
- Italian Skiing vintage
- Pizzoccheri della Valtellina
- Great tips on ski travelling
- Podcast on Trentino region
- Thanks to Flickr for pics here here and here
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