COURMAYEUR
Courmayeur Mont-Blanc (1224 meters.s.l.m.) is a small town of mountain set among Italy, France and Switzerland.
Said also "the pearl of the Alps", it owes his fame for the enchanting geographical position and for its ideal climate in all the seasons.
Its tourist vocation boasts more than three centuries of history. Before with the discovery of its thermal and curative waters, subsequently becoming destination aspired of the pioneers of the modern mountaineering, first among them, the whole great Edward Whymper,the conqueror of Matterhorn and Grandes jorasses.
The Courmayeur's Guide Society rises in the distant 1850. From the beginning of the XX° century, Courmayeur Mont-Blanc also turns him into winter tourist station.
Then was founded the Mont blanc ski school, were built the lift up installations and it becomes more one of the most equiped destinations forthe winter sports lovers.
Its strategic position (only 1 hour and a half by car from Geneva and Turin) sets Courmayeur Mont.Blanc to the center of the international tourist scenery not twisting of it however the peculiarity of "small country of mountain."
Today "Courma" is frequented by a variegated and absolutely international clientele made of people that appreciate both the grandeur of the natural beauties and the elegance and class of the town all in an atmosphere of "charme" and reservation that countersigns it for a long time.
The fantastic and unique side valleys, Val Veny and Val Ferret, offer both in the summer that in winter a vast range of trips and excursions, from the easiest to the most binding, in this enchanting context the man really enters in narrow contact with the uncontaminated nature. Always surrounded by the most beautiful mountains of the alpine arc in primis Your Majesty the Mont blanc.
Courmayeur Mont-Blanc allows besides the possibility to practise outside every kind of as sport how much indoor.
Near the Courmayeur Sport Center, (one of the most important covered sporting centers in Europe) you can in fact to skate, to play tennis, squash, golf and also enjoy yourself with thousand other activities even when outside it snows.
Naturally Courmayeur Mont-Blanc is not only sport, it is also fun. The after ski as the shopping are of the maximum level. The numerous nighttime places and restaurants will satisfy to the best Your desire of fun.
Every year they are developed cultural demonstrations of very high profile as meetings of author, the festival of cinema "Noir in Festival", musical festival of international relief and conventions of big call mediatic (Meltdown party of Google,London City Ski Championship in collaboration with the Momentum Travel in London, etc.)
