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MOUNTAINS AND SKI AREAS
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Italian Mountains
People who love mountains have an extraordinary variety to choose from in Italy – more than 1,500 resorts with 12,000 hotels, pensions and other accommodation. The Dolomites are famous and enchantingly beautiful, and the Tre Cime of Lavaredo, in Cadore on the border of Alto Adige, are equally well known and spectacular. The areas with the greatest number of internationally popular mountain resorts are Trentino, Alto Adige and the Val d’Aosta, but there are well known centres in numerous other regions in Italy. Among the most prestigious and best-equipped winter sports resorts are Cortina d’Ampezzo, Madonna di Campiglio and Courmayeur.
 Cortina d'Ampezzo
Encircled by some superb Dolomite massives, Cortina is the most important tourist centre in the Dolomites and one of the best known and equipped winter sport resorts in the world.
 Abetone
Situated in a Valley on the border between Tuscany and Emilia in the magnificent State forest, it is the most famous summer and winter holiday resort in the whole Apennine range.
 Courmayeur
It is known as the "Queen of the Alps" because of its magical setting among twelve peaks, including the Mont Blanc range. There are altogether 100 km of ski pistes with different difficulty.
 Asiago
The main town of the “Seven Communes” on the Asiago plateau, located between the Astico and the Brenta in the province of Vicenza. The skiing complex is divided into five centres: Larici, Maddarello, Bellocchio, Ekar and Kaberlaga
 Terminillo
Mount Terminillo is the highest mountain in the Lazio Apennines (2216 m). This ski resort, made up of Campoforogna and Pian de’ Valli, is the most important and best equipped in central Italy.
 Madonna di Campiglio
It is the chief ski-resort between the Brenta and Adamello groups of Dolomitic peaks.
 Sestrière
It is the best known tourist location in Piedmont in the magnificent setting of the West Alps between the Dora Riparia Valley and the Chisone Valley.
 Cervinia
This winter sports resort is situated in the last valley in Valtournenche at the foot of Mount Cervino. It is one of the best known in Europe.
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