What's the most beautiful Alps ski resort in Italy? Canazei vs Brunico

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The ski season on the Alps is going to start in few weeks and it's time to plan snow weeks and ski weekends.

For a non expert mountains can appear all the same: white, cold, only good for skiing. But to decide where to go for skiing is a task more complicated than what it can look like! Above all if in the group there are also snowboarders, hikers, and... beginners!

Then you must add the non-sports side: when you are not on the slopes you'd like to stay in a pleasant resort where to enjoy beautiful landscapes, taste delicious mountain food and, why not, do some sightseeing!

3 alps ski resorts worth to visit in summer

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Alps are a varied set of destinations and landscapes, which not only attract tourists during winter for the ski season. There are many reasons to travel to the extreme north of Italy in summer too, above all for hiking and trekking lovers, but also for who just wants to spend a different kind of holidays visiting small villages hiding their history behind high peaks.

Here are three of the most fascinating resorts of the Dolomites of Trentino region, north-east Italy.

Predazzo

Tourist resort of Val di Fiemme, at the confluence of the Rio Travignolo with the Avisio river, on the Dolomites.

Where to go in the Alps in winter and summer

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In the period between the two world wars, under initiative of the Agnelli family from Turin, northeast Italy, on a hill that connects the Chisone Valley with the Susa Valley, was born Sestriere, a complex of facilities and hotel equipment that today has few rivals in Europe.

For mountain lovers the Alps are like heaven, but while Dolomites offer incredible landscapes, while Swiss and Austrian destinations offer a 1 year long ski season, the peaks at the boarder between France and Italy are a more chic travel option, between big cities like Turin and Grenoble, ideal for who likes to have all the commodities, join trendy parties and assist to important events.

Climbing, trekking and skiing in the Alps of Valle d’Aosta

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For mountain lovers the Alps are the paradise in earth. But inside the Alps there’s only one true heaven, the Valle d’Aosta, most little region of Italy, hosting in such a small territory the Italian side of the highest mountain in Europe, the Mont Blanc, fantastic ski resorts like Cervinia and ideal places for hiking and trekking like the Gran Paradiso National Park. These are the next destinations we are going to discover during our long travel up and down the country.

Gran Paradiso National Park

Gran Paradiso National Park, in Valle d’Aosta region, was the first national park to be established in Italy.

Dolomites, treasure of the Alps: Cortina d’Ampezzo and Ortisei

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On Italy’s most spectacular peaks, Dolomites, for somebody the most beautiful mountains in the world, white in winter, pink in summer, is where we find the next destinations of our travel: Cortina d’Ampezzo and Ortisei, two of the most renowned and charatceristic resorts  of the Alps where tourists stop for their ski trips and not only.

Cortina d'Ampezzo

The Italian supermodel of ski resorts, Cortina d’Ampezzo, on the spectacular Dolomites mountains, is fashionable, pricey, icy and undeniably beautiful. . It boasts of 140 km of slopes and 80 km of cross-country skiing paths. The town’s stone church spires and pleasant piazzas are framed by magnificent Alps.

For a trip to the Alps it’s always high season...

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Italy is a worldwide dreamed destination for its millenary history, for its precious artworks of all times, for its calm mediterranean beaches… But also for the most fashion ski resorts in the world, competing with neighbour countries that share the same mountain chain, the Alps.

Along all the italian borders with continental Europe there are gorgeus peaks, passes and valleys with enchanting mountain villages. The first two destinations we are going to discover in our blog’s travel are the closest to Milan, upon the Alps of Lombardy and at the border with Switzerland: Livigno and Bormio, ancient villages today surrounded by popular ski centers.